Mold Prevention

[Jumpshot724]

Greetings,
I am in the process of building a more suitable vivarium for my 4 FBTs, moving them from a 10 gallon 1/2 water 1/2 land, with a "turtle beach" foam insert seperating the water from the EcoEarth to a 25 gallon that will have a great stuff/coco bedding background complete with waterfall, and live plants.

Now, I left for the weekend and my FBTs were fine, I came back today after only 4 days gone and the EcoEarth and portion of the "turtle beach" foam nearest the bedding has white mold all over the top of it. Frogs seem fine, unfortunately I don't have the time to remedy this issue till hopefully tommorrow night. But, this is my first problem with mold and I'm just afraid of it happening again in the new viv, as I'm trying to make it as maintenance free as possible.

Help or suggestions?

[Green Ghost]

Humidity is too high and there's not enough air movement. The mold won't kill your frogs. A little mold is normal actually. Spray the mold down to get rid of it, then vent the tank for a little while.

[captaincarot]

i don't like mould after i lost 2 us green tree frogs in one week. the branch in their house had sprouted mushrooms. since then i get rid of anything which shows mould/ fungus as soon as i see it.

[Jason]

I was going to use a 2 small computer fans to create air flow in my viv, one on the left and on on the right sides of the tank on there own timers to simulate a chaotic yet mild wind effect. i have read that thay tend to lower the temp to much. would aiming the flow at or just below a ceramic heating element work?