The water is about 2 weeks old and I have a charcoal/sponge filter. I'm going to change the water anyway but was wondering if anyone else has noticed something like this and what it might be. Thanks!!!
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There is a white film of something floating on top of my water. Looks kinda like oil.
wideglide
Mar 26, 2004 04:51 PM
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Memebeaker
Mar 26, 2004 07:23 PM
I have 2 FBT in a 10 gallon tank that is 75% aquatic with a carbon/zeolite filter and I also get this filmy looking layer on the water from time to time. I do usually replace a fraction of the water when I see it but it doesn't seem to harm them. --Jenny
LeopardGeckoMan
Mar 26, 2004 07:28 PM
It is not oil it is just their posion. When they get frighten they produce the posion. So they just might have gotten scared.
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Tanzee
Mar 27, 2004 01:06 PM
I actually can't tell you for sure what that is, but I find it too. I just posted a few lines down from this about my toad's shedding...or atleast I thought it was that, I haven't gotten a reply. It is a white filmy thing. I used to see it floating around occasionally after I had seen my toad's struggling to get out of it. So maybe it is just skin.
Colchicine
Mar 28, 2004 09:04 AM
The oily surface of the water is produced by organics. Sometimes this will happen if you feed too much, or have inadequate filtration. If the water is only two weeks old thing you should plan on doing water exchanges anyway, since the nitrogen cycle has yet to establish and ammonia in the water will undoubtedly be high. In order to solve this problem, you should either increase the water volume and the filtration (move them into a larger tank) or use something to break up the water's surface. This can be done by adjusting the outflow of the filter to slightly break up the surface of the water, or use an air stone in the tank.
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TANZEE
Mar 28, 2004 12:17 PM
I don't think that is the problem with my toads, but probably the other persons who asked this original question. You see, my toads get this filmy ring around just them and lots of times once they are out of it I see their hand or feet imprints in it. I just want to make sure that it is them shedding!
Colchicine
Mar 28, 2004 04:28 PM
>>I don't think that is the problem with my toads, but probably the other persons who asked this original question. You see, my toads get this filmy ring around just them and lots of times once they are out of it I see their hand or feet imprints in it. I just want to make sure that it is them shedding!
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...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
Calvin and Hobbes (Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink', 1991)
wideglide
Mar 29, 2004 10:37 AM
>>The oily surface of the water is produced by organics. Sometimes this will happen if you feed too much, or have inadequate filtration. If the water is only two weeks old thing you should plan on doing water exchanges anyway, since the nitrogen cycle has yet to establish and ammonia in the water will undoubtedly be high. In order to solve this problem, you should either increase the water volume and the filtration (move them into a larger tank) or use something to break up the water's surface. This can be done by adjusting the outflow of the filter to slightly break up the surface of the water, or use an air stone in the tank.
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>>...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
>> Aldo Leopold (1938)
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>>"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
>>Calvin and Hobbes (Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink', 1991)
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Rob Talkington
