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my dart frog tank has some mold. its the white fuzzy kind. its only a little bit on the drift wood. whats should i do to get rid of it??? please help
nevin
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all ive got is insane

"dont be afraid to die, only be afraid to not live"

"dont become classified. if you are nothing, then you can be anything."

Did you set the tank up recently? If so, don't be concerned. It's pretty common for wood and moss in a new terrarium to mold over for a week or two after the terrarium is setup. The mold should go away soon.
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Devin Edmonds
devin@amphibiancare.com
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the tank has been up for about 4 months, then outta no where i got this mold. it took over alot inabout a weeks time. so i tore the hole thing apart, bleached(bleached it the right way) everything and put it back togeather. and now after 3 days of it being back togeather, the mold is slightly coming back.
thanxs again
nevin
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AIM- McChompinator

.1. green tree python-naga
.1 jungle carpet python-echo
1.1 brazilian rainbow baos-peace&chaos
.1 columbian redtail-trinity
1.2 leopard geckos-killer, sallean,
1. blizzerd lizzard-grim
.1 bell leos-ecstacy
.1 tremper leos-euphoria
.2 vegas leos-freya, shiva
.1. crested gecko-ladon
1.2 bearded dragon-blaze&isis
1. mali uromastyx-chubby
1. sudanese uromastyx-anumbis
.2. phyllobates terribilis-cyanide, arsenic
.2. albino pacman frog- kul, phooka
.1 columbian redtail-trinity
1.2 african fat tailed geckos-loki, hel, idun
2.0 brothers
0.2 sisters
3 cats-fat max, spiderman, &toby
1 miniture mutt-brutis

all ive got is insane

"dont be afraid to die, only be afraid to not live"

"dont become classified. if you are nothing, then you can be anything."

Just wipe it off the glass, or wherever it bothers you. It will come and go. Don't take the tank down and bleach it. Most molds are harmless and will go away, but if you bleach everything out and start all over, they also will start all over when you set it up again. I sort of miss getting fuzzy molds now that my tanks are older, some going on five years, and the plants have overgrown. That means I have to start over with the biological cycles. The molds have never harmed my frogs. The spores are just in the air, in new substrate, so they'll land and start all over, whatever you do, and you really don't want a "sterile" environment, you want a recycling, biologically sound environment. There's a difference between pathogenic fungi that might infect your frog if it has an injury, or is harboring a pathogenic fungi when you get it, and all of the various others that make up a healthy environment. But usually the stuff you see growing on a new substrate or logs or glass, is going to just do it's thing, then go away.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

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My current viv has been set up for close to a year now and mold pops up in mine every once and a while too. I altually think it's kind of pretty. I like the mushrooms too.
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Yes!-- I love the mushrooms too, but they usually only show up in relatively new tanks with organic composts, then gradually die off and disappear. I had some "bird's nest" mushrooms a couple of years ago when I used some unsterilized desert sand as part of a set-up, but they also just went away with time. My motto is "clean, but not sterile."
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
5 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
5 D. imitator
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4 D. pumilio Bastimentos
4 D. fantasticus
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4 D. reticulatus
4 D. castaneoticus