Wild mosses, lichens and mushrooms

[Big D]

Does anyone here collect wild mosses, lichens and mushrooms for their vivariums?
I was in the woods a couple nights ago and found 8 different species of lichens and mosses as well as a wonderful tight clump of mushrooms I'd like to use. Are there any specific do's and don'ts?

I keep 1.0.1 Hyla cinerea and 1.2.0 Anolis segrei.

Thanks,
Daryle

[Th@t1Guy]

well if its for your frogs or anoles you can search for stuff from their natural habitat, most mosses i think will be fine, but i think they're easy to over water, mushrooms can be poisonous obviously so be careful, and im sure lichens would be fine

[Pavel]

Keeping the plants or shrooms alive is the harder thing. The mushrooms you find are only the fruiting bodies of the fungus. They cannot be 'planted'. Also fungi tend to have very specific requirements -- even as to what they need as a media. (For example one of the fungi which grow on rotting logs will not grow in soil.) Lichens have similar issues and most require excellant air circulation. Wild mosses are often a crap shoot. It depends on what kind of tank environment you can provide and how well that matches their natural environment. If they are not a good match, you will be senselessly harvesting an organism only to kill it.

Then there is always the concern over the possibility of introducing some sort of pathogen into your viv along with the wild flora.