Its been a while since I have posted thing are a little crazy here. I am still getting ready to move to the new house. I will be going before the rest of the family will be. Anyhow I have a question about the water. I use only distilled water in my tank. The water stays brown even though I have siphoned off the water several times, it looks like ice tea. The problem is that I have what looks like an oily sheen on top of the water in the pool area where the cork bark roll rests in the water. I don't know what could be causing the film. I have some plants in the water area, although I did remove one of them because it looked too degrated to stay there...even though it was a water plant. I pitched that. There are two others still in the water. Everything else is plants and the soil mix of the coco fiber, ground tree fiber and some jungle mix I got at the pet store, but the soil is mostly coco fiber and tree fiber. I used the foam,coco fiber and silicone method for the background...which does go below the water line in the pool area. The only changes I have made sice the first week was to add an additional plant and two coco huts. Nothing seems to be molding as far as I can see. I still didn't add the spring tails...been too busy running back and forth to the new place 6hrs away, interveiws, my job and packing to order them. Do any of you know what it could be or what could be causing this problem? The tank is pretty sterile, I haven't added anything from the outside although I didn't sterlize the cork bark or the soil before adding it in the tank. This is the first problem I have had with it. ANother question I have been meaning to post is how do I cool the tank off? I don't have any frogs in it yet but as soon as it is moved to the new house I plan on getting the fruit flys going and ordering the frogs. The inside temp can reach the mid 80's range somewhere's around 85. I would appreciate any help you can give me!!! Sorry so long and drawn out!!

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