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In freshwater, there is more opportunity for silver (Ag) to interact with organic ligands than in seawater. Triclosan is an antibiotic agent which resembles thyroid hormone T3 and is finding its way into aquatic systems. Preliminary toxicology studies for the frogSCOPE program suggest that triclosan and nanosilver (nanoAg), also used as an antibiotic agent, may be chemically interacting, as they seem to synergistically increase the endocrine-disrupting abilities already observed independently in each chemical. Ag speciation methods can be used to determine if triclosan or thyroid hormone T3 are interacting with Ag ion (Ag+), which gets released over time by nanoAg. To fully utilize Ag speciation methods, however, total Ag in the sample must also be independently analyzed. Here we investigated a new total Ag analysis using cadmium sulfide quantum dots (CdS QDs) as fluorescence probes in solution. This method promises results in a fraction of the time of the established competitive ligand equilibration-solvent extraction (CLE-SE) technique utilizing PDC- and DDC- to bind Ag and bring it out of solution. Following this investigation were a series of experiments using CLE-SE for total Ag and Ag speciation in well water used to house bullfrog tadpoles in frogSCOPE Ag exposure studies. CLE-SE for Ag speciation was also applied to well water samples containing the two levels of nanoAg or Ag+ used in frogSCOPE Ag exposures, and used in ligand competition experiments to examine the potential of triclosan or T3 to act as strong Ag-binding ligands, as compared to glutathione and EDTA, two known Ag-binding ligands. The results of the latter experiments could be used to determine if either of these could be forming complexes with Ag which increase or decrease their delivery to amphibian cells. The fluorometric method using CdS QDs showed no ideal analytical response to nanomolar Ag+, even when commercial QDs were modified and used, so it could not be applied to our samples. Using CLE-SE for total Ag, the well water used as a base for toxicity studies in frogSCOPE contained Ag below the method detection limit of 5 pM. Using the speciation variation of the CLE-SE method, no evidence of naturally-occurring ligands which could produce extractable (hydrophobic) or non-extractable (hydrophilic) Ag complexes was found in this well water. EDTA and glutathione responded as model Ag-binding ligands to form non-extractable hydrophilic Ag complexes in fresh water. T3 behaved like these model ligands, while triclosan enhanced the extractability of Ag in the presence of certain concentrations of the added ligand, DDC-. In another set of experiments, coordination of Ag by triclosan or T3 was not detectable within that analytical window. These results suggest that ionic Ag released over time by nanoAg may be binding T3 and preventing it from reaching its receptor, but confirming the interaction of triclosan and Ag+ will require additional experiments using different analytical windows.