Shrooms

[gulogulo82]

So I had a bunch of mushrooms growing in the eco earth in my scorpion viv today. I pulled them because this happened before in another tank and they spread spores everywhere. Does anyone else ever have this happen? Suggestions?

[Nate-87]

... I personally would love to have shrooms in my enclosures, but if you dont want em to ever pop up, bake the substrate at 250 degrees. Or, if you are absent minded you can boil it for 5 minutes.

-Nate

[gulogulo82]

I think they look really cool, but one time I was gone for three days and when I had got home, mushrooms had sprouted up and exploded black spores all over everything. I didn't know if they were harmful or not, but the lizards were burried inside a hide and didn't look to hot. They were fine though.

[HewesHort]

mushrooms are a sign that your habitat is thriving. i agree that an overload of spores is not good for any living thing, but i think a few make the viv look more natural.

[Allyn]

the responsible thing to do would be to eat them.

if you really dont want them coming back just do a full clean on the tank.
did you see thos cool mushrooms on planet earth series where the spores go in the ants brains and then a mushroom bursts out of thier heads? I cant believ sigourney weaver narrated that series. she was pretty hot in the alien quadrilogie. she should have been in the new AVP movies. they had the guy who played bishop in the old movies in the first AVP. Remember when he gest owned by the alien queen in Aliens, and white blood goes everywhere, then sigourney weaver hops on the powerloader and fights the queen?

[RecycledAgain]

Allyn, your post has what to do with the original posters question?

I have yet to see mushrooms take over a Viv, I think thats why they are a novelty among most of us. They never last long in my experience.
It will be fine.

Although, the Planet Earth show on rain forests and specialized fungi preyed on specialized insects was ,,terribly interesting.

Dan

[Austin]

The mushrooms you get in your viv aren't going to be anything harmful. If they got out of hand I'd thin them out but if I ever got a few I'd surely keep them.

[gulogulo82]

Originally Posted by Austin

The mushrooms you get in your viv aren't going to be anything harmful. If they got out of hand I'd thin them out but if I ever got a few I'd surely keep them.

I have been. Unfortunatly, they only last a day at most once they sprout up, then they spread their spores out and die off.

[HewesHort]

Originally Posted by Allyn

the responsible thing to do would be to eat them.

dont EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER!!! i mean NEVER eat a mushroom you pick unless you have a dregree in mycology and a lot of experience. i have a good friend that has lost function in his liver and both kidneys from eating a PROPERLY identified mushroom that had some sort of bacteria or something growing on it, he almost died! he had been collecting mushrooms for years and knew what to look for and still ended up very sick. Im sure you were joking, but...

[darc]

Originally Posted by HewesHort

dont EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER!!! i mean NEVER eat a mushroom you pick unless you have a dregree in mycology and a lot of experience. i have a good friend that has lost function in his liver and both kidneys from eating a PROPERLY identified mushroom that had some sort of bacteria or something growing on it, he almost died! he had been collecting mushrooms for years and knew what to look for and still ended up very sick. Im sure you were joking, but...

Hah, yeah, I thought about making this same post, but figured he was surely joking so I refrained... but it does need to be said : )

I've cultivated multiple types of mushrooms through the years (morels, portabella, and multiple varieties of psilocybe's : ) and you should always be 120% positive you know what you've got before you eat... cause just a tiny bit of a 'bad' mushroom will kill you dead... or at least turn your guts inside out and place them in the toilet with a severe amount of pain accompanying it.

-darc