Stugy
Arachnolord
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- Apr 21, 2016
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lol In every situation in which mold has started growing in my enclosures is when it takes weeks until they show up.OK, just wanted to be sure she was humid, as they do need good humidity to survive.
I'd setup the enclosure with substrate how you want it, then wait a little bit before moving the female in, mold growth usually is at it's peak when starting a new cage, after a couple weeks the mold usually starts dying off, especially if you have springtails in there, (they don't have to be the big tropical ones usually used as cleanup crews, just the normal tiny silver ones will do).
Yeah, I really don't like setups without substrate either, feels so unnatural! So I usually put a thin layer of substrate even in enclosures with species that don't need it.
I've been getting some real weird looking mold that starts from the bottom of the substrate and works it's way up. I may get a pic of the mold in a bit since it's already taken over my experimental pillbug deli-cup (they were WC so I was experimenting foods while trying to kill of the mites of them) and my experimental sowbug deli-cup (same reason but also had a large amount of Sinella curviseta after an accident).
