Fungus Gnats - Bad or Ok ?

[Dendro_Dave]

Free frog food from my point of view. I welcome them

[frogfreak]

Free frog food from my point of view. I welcome them

lol While I agree with you, having them buzzing around your dinner guests isn't cool. :oops:

[Eric Walker]

Iv allways wondered about their potential to carry pathogens from say a quarantine tank to other established tanks . When we moved into our new house and I started setting up a ton of new vivs they exploded so bad I almost gave up. Took me months to knock it down to manageable. Numbers close to 1000 regularly.

[Dendro_Dave]

I wonder about that too... and same could go for escaped ff's migrating to other tanks

[ZenMonkey]

Last night I had a dream that I was being overrun by gnats in my room, so many that I couldn't even breathe without inhaling them. The price I pay for bumping this thread.

But as I've just got one viv and a half dozen or so gnats at any one time, I think I'm okay.

[Philsuma]

Well, I just saw my first explosion of gnats in one of Craig's vivs. hundreds of them. They common thing is WET vivs. They need really wet vivs to explode, it seems.

[frogfreak]

They common thing is WET vivs. They need really wet vivs to explode

100% Or wet Iso bins. :|

[Dendro_Dave]

Last night I had a dream that I was being overrun by gnats in my room, so many that I couldn't even breathe without inhaling them. The price I pay for bumping this thread.

But as I've just got one viv and a half dozen or so gnats at any one time, I think I'm okay.

Happens to me all the time, then I wake up and realize.... OMG!!! ...It wasn't a dream!!!... HELP!!! :oops:

[ZenMonkey]

At least I'd rather eat a gnat than a fruit fly. ;-)

So if the gnats become a problem, how do you go about drying out the viv while maintaining high enough humidity for the frogs? Right now there's just enough gnats in mine to give the frogs a workout chasing them, but I'd like to be prepared. My viv floor could use some drying out, and it's very dry here so it shouldn't take too long if I mist less. I've been keeping the humidity at 80% or above, around 90% on average; how low can I let it get? In the false bottom there's about an inch of water in the leca.

[frogfreak]

At least I'd rather eat a gnat than a fruit fly. ;-)

So if the gnats become a problem, how do you go about drying out the viv while maintaining high enough humidity for the frogs? Right now there's just enough gnats in mine to give the frogs a workout chasing them, but I'd like to be prepared. My viv floor could use some drying out, and it's very dry here so it shouldn't take too long if I mist less. I've been keeping the humidity at 80% or above, around 90% on average; how low can I let it get? In the false bottom there's about an inch of water in the leca.

I wouldn't worry about it if you have one viv. They will fizzle out in time.

[Boondoggle]

I wouldn't worry about it if you have one viv. They will fizzle out in time.

Agreed. I have had substantial booms of these from time to time. They seem to hit a new tank and like just about everything else we consider a pest in our tanks if you are patient they will cycle down to reasonable numbers. I have a wall of tanks and I bet if you looked at it now you'd spot 4 or 5 gnats.