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Hey,
has anyone ever had experiences curing the desease with moss? Yeah you read the wright thing, moss...
I was just browsing the boards, reading posts about mycosis when it came to my mind...
As far as I know every species of moss has the ability to build substances against different bacterias and fungus (also microfungus) and also biochemical substances against enemies (eg snails) and to strengthen their immune system.
Mycosis is a desease caused by fungus...
In the art of bonsai making they sometimes use moss water (1/4 of cut moss to 3/4 of cold water, letting this water absorb the moss substances for 24 hours in a covered pot) to fight fungus on their little trees or just for prevention from time to time. It seems to work with the trees...
Has anyone ever tried that with scorpions? Problem is, you can't just throw the scorps in a pot of moss water or spray the water on them from time to time, I guess they would'nt cooperate And I doubt that that treatment would be good for them...
Has anyone experimented with living moss in the tank? Maybe it would already help the scorpions living on the moss to prevent mycosis. Is the rate of scorpions suffering from mycosis higher in tanks without moss???
The problem with that is that it is damn hard to grow moss in the tank or if you try to do it, the tank gets too wet...
Does all that make sense?!?! :?
Ideas?
Chris
has anyone ever had experiences curing the desease with moss? Yeah you read the wright thing, moss...
I was just browsing the boards, reading posts about mycosis when it came to my mind...
As far as I know every species of moss has the ability to build substances against different bacterias and fungus (also microfungus) and also biochemical substances against enemies (eg snails) and to strengthen their immune system.
Mycosis is a desease caused by fungus...
In the art of bonsai making they sometimes use moss water (1/4 of cut moss to 3/4 of cold water, letting this water absorb the moss substances for 24 hours in a covered pot) to fight fungus on their little trees or just for prevention from time to time. It seems to work with the trees...
Has anyone ever tried that with scorpions? Problem is, you can't just throw the scorps in a pot of moss water or spray the water on them from time to time, I guess they would'nt cooperate And I doubt that that treatment would be good for them...
Has anyone experimented with living moss in the tank? Maybe it would already help the scorpions living on the moss to prevent mycosis. Is the rate of scorpions suffering from mycosis higher in tanks without moss???
The problem with that is that it is damn hard to grow moss in the tank or if you try to do it, the tank gets too wet...
Does all that make sense?!?! :?
Ideas?
Chris