Heat stress

most of the time, but it can be due to other things. heat stresses them lowering their immune system and then thats when the opertunistic fungus takes hold.

hope that helped!
 
what i find odd is how the fungas gets there in the first place are there millions of spores everywhrere?
 
how did they get into the air in the first place? pretty cool learning about how fungus comes to be in your tank!
 
If the fungus occurs in a water source and the pool of water dries out, the spores can then be distributed whenever the ground is disturbed and there is some form of air flow. It can also be introduced in water, on plants, etc.

Ed
 
I doubt you guys have puffballs down your way, but they're a fungus that forms in large white balls. Ripe puffballs are edible, but my favorite thing to do with puffballs is throw them against a tree. They explode into a big puff of white powder (the spores). The spores would then float on the wind until they settled on the ground and formed new puffballs.
 
oh wow, totally cool joan! we have the mushroom 'puffballs' are these the same things? dont think id be smashing any near my house for fear of them getting into tanks (probably already some in there)

fungus is actually pretty cool, apart from the obvious bad parts, quite interesting how it gets about. i always thought it would live purely in all waters, not take to the air too!
 
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