WICKED mold issues.

panikin · #1 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 11:38 PM

My biosphere (a tall hexagonal vivarium holding four american green tree frogs) is four weeks old and has recently experienced a mad mold bloom. When it first started to appear, I thought it was algea but my biology teacher then told me that it was slime mold. Ladies and gentlemen, this stuff covers 90% of the glass in the vivarium. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm sure snails will get rid of this once I get them in there, my first batch died in the first week I had them in there so they didn't do much good... it's this green, partly transparent, extremely slippery stuff.

Tindomul1of9 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 11:40 PM

Do you have any pics of it?
Does it form a kinda lighting pattern to it?
I have had slime molds appear overnight in most of my vivs where the humidity is the highest.
Mold will grow in high humidity. It will go away once it has eaten all it can.

panikin · #3 (**permalink**) 10-28-2006, 11:42 PM

Ah, not yet. I might have some by monday though. What does it eat? I'm just worried that it'll block out all of the sunlight to the other plants (currently its in a greenhouse at school). I tried to rotate it so that the less moldy side would receive light but a day or two later the entire 360 degrees was just covered.

panikin · #4 (**permalink**) 11-01-2006, 11:35 PM

Here's the front panel of my biosphere. As you can see, it is very covered. Do you know what it is? My bio teacher says it might have come on one of the plants.

Marty · #5 (**permalink**) 11-02-2006, 12:00 AM

I have this too in my tank. It only happens in one tank, which has a lot of light and is very humid. It could be slime mold. I've also heard that this is some type of a bacteria. A lot of people have this in their tanks. I usually just squeegy it out every few months.