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Is this mold?

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Is this mold in my tank there are bunch of small white dots at the bottom of my tank and they look fuzzy if you look closely. I don’t have a drainage layer but I have isopods and springtails in the tank.
 
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That's a fungus that gets IDed as Leucocoprinus birnbaumii. Here's a thread about it with links to other threads; a search here will pull up many more.

As an aside, a drainage layer (and a means to drain it efficiently) is a necessary part of a functional dart viv. Without it, waste products do not exit the viv in sufficient amounts, and pathogens also build up and reinfect the frogs.