So I've got a wooden canopy over my swamp setup, and I used to run a heat light but my turtle doesn't even bask there and I recently added some reed frogs to the unutilized land area, so I turned the light off. Also, it was generating excess heat that was making the water temp too high.
This has had the added effect of increasing the humidity, leading to a lot more condensation on the glass and elsewhere, which has in turn made the wood on my canopy begin to rot, especially in the area around the waterfall. Right now it's still solid and just tiny bits of white mold, but I'm worried that it will advance.
What should I do to stop it? It is difficult to remove the canopy entirely, and would open up the possibility of frog escapes.
I was thinking maybe about lightly sanding off a layer of the inside of it, to get rid of the mold and outer nastiness, and then painting on a layer of some kind of coating to stop rot in the future.
Ideally I'd use something that won't kill everything in the tank if it drips, or with its fumes.
Does this seem like a viable plan of action? What product should I use? Any ideas? Help would be much appreciated as this is worrying me.
This has had the added effect of increasing the humidity, leading to a lot more condensation on the glass and elsewhere, which has in turn made the wood on my canopy begin to rot, especially in the area around the waterfall. Right now it's still solid and just tiny bits of white mold, but I'm worried that it will advance.
What should I do to stop it? It is difficult to remove the canopy entirely, and would open up the possibility of frog escapes.
I was thinking maybe about lightly sanding off a layer of the inside of it, to get rid of the mold and outer nastiness, and then painting on a layer of some kind of coating to stop rot in the future.
Ideally I'd use something that won't kill everything in the tank if it drips, or with its fumes.
Does this seem like a viable plan of action? What product should I use? Any ideas? Help would be much appreciated as this is worrying me.
