What is this white coating? (picture)

rsheets

What is this white coating? It's all over everything and it looks like it snowed in my tank with white specks everywhere. Very strange! you can see what it is supposed to look like in the other pic.

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Twistersmom

What type of gravel do you have? Might be pieces of broken up gravel.

1077

Are there any little hands that have access to the tank?

rsheets

No, just my hands. And it's just gravel but the white is not from the gravel though, pretty sure about that.

stephanieleah

do you have snails? those look like the eggs my nerite snails leave all over the place.

1077

Looks like some more substrate (gravel) has been added over top of what was there? Could be particles from that being possibly disturbed . Anything like ammolock or other chemical media or powder added to the filter? perhaps some of it is escaping into the tank. Just guessing.

rsheets

Well, whatever it is, the guppys, Swordtail, and angel fish are eating up. I think it's algae.
No snails. I did see one but I havn't seen it in a while, I'm hoping I sucked it up during a WC.