Mold - A danger or problem?

[Gnag the nameless]

Cloudy ring around the surface?

I'm talking about after they've drowned, and the mold that sets in after a few days if I leave the drowned crickets be.

[deranged chipmunk]

Cloudy ring around the surface?

I'm talking about after they've drowned, and the mold that sets in after a few days if I leave the drowned crickets be.

i just saw this. wty in the world would you leave dead crickets in the enclosure long enough for them to grow mold?

[Gnag the nameless]

Well, I used to. Mostly because even I am repulsed by it, and I don't want to touch them but also, many of the crickets that drown float into ridges between rocks or by the log, making them hard to spot. Even worse are the ones that I can't get at, I usually have to wait until nighttime when my frogs are out of their cave to get them. And the ones that are sucked below the filter, but are too big to be sucked into it can elude me for a handful of days, too. It's irritating. However, I've begun doing longer and closer examinations for drowned crickets, and I've not had a moldy one in a while now due to my new constant schedule of checking for them. Also, I've changed the spots where I place the crickets, so less and less are drowning now.

[Hoppity100]

Yeah, my frogs will miss a cricket or wax worm and I remove it the next day. They get caught between rocks and plants and mine just get gooey. If they're in the water long enough I can see where they could grow something gross. This is why I check my tank every day. I change water often and don't let it become cloudy or stagnant.

[Gnag the nameless]

I never let the water get cloudy, and I try to move the lilypads often so they're not disrupting the flow of the water from the filter. These days, I remove any dead crickets I see on sight. I do like to change the water often, but I try to be careful about it for the frog's sake.

The cause is almost certainly the first 2, the first of which I can't change. However, white mold is all I'm getting, which shouldn't hurt the frogs.

[Hoppity100]

I was just thinking about the mold someone has and all I can come up with is really wet wood, dead bugs, or a rotting plant.