Molds like this are unavoidable, and almost always totally harmless. They are just a more visible part of the biological cycling going on in any living terrarium. You can probably see a more spotty variety on the Malaysia drift wood the azureus froglet is sitting on in this picture. Most fungi will come and then disappear over time.

Actually, when I was looking over all of my tanks to find some fungi to photograph, this one was the only one I could find at the present time, although they have all had them at one time or another. The older a tank gets, it seems the fewer conspicuous fungi occur. New tanks will tend to get slime molds on the glass, as well as a webby white fungus, and drift wood and dead leaves will invariably grow some kind of fungi. It's next to impossible to specifically identify most of them, and in a living tank, there's no way to control them.



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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, galactonotus orange, galactonotus yellow, fantasticus, reticulatus, imitator, castaneoticus, azureus, pumilio Bastimentos. P. lugubris, vittatus, terribilis mint green, terribilis orange.

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