The Fungi in repitsoil

[TheraMygale]

I really do not ovet saturate the sub with water.

I also have plenty of ventilation. It is also winter and the air is super dry in my house.

and yet, now, i have fruitification. Egg mold was one thing, but the fruiting bodies are creeping me out.

i read @boina’s threads, i know its not “deadly”. I don’t like it though.

i am sticking to cocofiber for everything in the futur. But what am i missing?

 

[Mustafa67]

I really do not ovet saturate the sub with water.

I also have plenty of ventilation. It is also winter and the air is super dry in my house.

and yet, now, i have fruitification. Egg mold was one thing, but the fruiting bodies are creeping me out.

i read @boina’s threads, i know its not “deadly”. I don’t like it though.

i am sticking to cocofiber for everything in the futur. But what am i missing?

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All that grew naturally? I understand why you don’t like it I would feel the same way. I just use coco fibre only and spot clean. I haven’t had anything like this happen YET

 

[Andrew Clayton]

I really do not ovet saturate the sub with water.

I also have plenty of ventilation. It is also winter and the air is super dry in my house.

and yet, now, i have fruitification. Egg mold was one thing, but the fruiting bodies are creeping me out.

i read @boina’s threads, i know its not “deadly”. I don’t like it though.

i am sticking to cocofiber for everything in the futur. But what am i missing?

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Straight cocofibre is what I use most for T's never had this issue.
Got me thinking though I wonder if I could cultivate some magic ones in a T's enclosure lol (joke btw)

 

[A guy]

It's to my understanding that the substrates we use can and will contain spores or other microscopic "stuff" sometimes. And being microscopic in size, those "stuff" can easily be carried by air. They can come in carried by the slightest breeze, an opened door or window is more than enough to let them into your house and make their way into enclosures.

 

[spideyspinneret78]

It's almost impossible to avoid things like this. Fungal spores are omnipresent. It might be unsightly, but it won't hurt your tarantulas. Let the substrate dry out a bit and spot clean if it bothers you.

 

[Wolfram1]

seriously, it doesn't even matter if its coco fibre, reptisoil or any other substrate, makes no difference to the spores

the only difference will be whether the spores came from the tropics or from somewhere colder like the US or Europe...

hence all the boiling, baking or otherwise treating organic materials are pointless... better find a way to live with whatever you get

my personal opinion, diversity is better than monoculture XD

 

[Arachnophobphile]

I really do not ovet saturate the sub with water.

I also have plenty of ventilation. It is also winter and the air is super dry in my house.

and yet, now, i have fruitification. Egg mold was one thing, but the fruiting bodies are creeping me out.

i read @boina’s threads, i know its not “deadly”. I don’t like it though.

i am sticking to cocofiber for everything in the futur. But what am i missing?

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I hate fungus in the substrate as well. I've had mushrooms grow whether it was Eco-Earth are just straight cocofiber.

The typical fungus in the cocofiber sub is harmless to T's but there is fungus that can cause issues. Tarantulas can get fungal infections mainly in the book lungs on their exo-skeleton and is fatal if untreated or treated too late.

Regardless of typical mold in substrate it should never be allowed to completely overtake the enclosure.

(Scroll down to the mold section in the link)

giantspiders.com - Common Ailments

Common tarantula ailments.

www.giantspiders.com

Keeping fungus at bay or just to a minimum is a balancing act between moisture and air ventilation.

Yes I have had terrestrial enclosures that developed more fungus than I want my T dealing with on one side. For me I do a complete rehouse when that has happened in the past.

I will not let an enclosure dry out if some fungus shows up during Winter. That can possibly cause desiccation in my tarantula/s due to very dry conditions already. When Spring is here and if I have one enclosure with unsightly fungus I rehouse that T and start fresh.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

My LPS told me he got a shipment of Reptisoil that all had fungus. He recommended looking at any I’d purchased elsewhere and drying out first.

 

[TheraMygale]

My LPS told me he got a shipment of Reptisoil that all had fungus. He recommended looking at any I’d purchased elsewhere and drying out first.

It came from bag: i let that bag quarantine once i noticed it popping in my enclosures. You should have seen the size of the mushrooms in there. I thought i was living an episode of Aliens. It was a big bag too. I thought leaving it open and drying out would solve the issue.

it did not.

the spores are tropical and coming from the repitsoil.

i do a lot of mushroom scouting in my woods. I dry everything outdoors. I can tell the difference in most species. This species is definitely not from here.

i don’t bake/boil my susbtrate and i won’t start doing it either. It makes the whole thing harder to humidify.

ive been picking out the “shrooms”. They litteraly just popped. Its in one of my d pentaloris enclosures. Which makes it hard to remove because the tarantula goes wild. I will be rehoming it in a new enclosure soon.

i am glad most of my tarantulas are on cocofiber. It limits the type of fungus.

most of my tarantulas are dry aswell. All have a “moist” corner that is allowed to dry.

my k brunnipes is in coco and its always moist. Never saturated. And never got the egg mold yet either.

i know, as many said, its inevitable. I will never let it get out of hand either.

i have a nhandu color that is very well established. Her enclosure got a really bad case of eggspore this summer. I let it dry out and its slowed down significantly. Ever since she got nice and cozy, she hasnt been kicking hairs. At all. And these furries are known for kicking.

Which is why i have not rehomed her yet. She is comfortable and calm. She hasnt even balded, and when i got her, she was very bald.

i will approach this with a scientific eye and do my best to keep the fruitification at bay.

i know why people loved vermiculite in the passed. Rarely does anything grow on that. Of course, i wont use that stuff. Its just a challenge. Cat litters, we change it often. Hamster fluff too. But tarantulas arent keen on resubbing. Its a real art to keep that stuff clean.

even with wild sub from a clean forest, there could be spores. I know my forests dont have the zombie spore because its boreal here.

i will be harvesting forest humus this spring in the very far north forests. Where water is so clean you can drink it without boiling. It will become a test enclosure. Worse case, some chanterelles or bolets grow and then i can eat them.

 

[Arachnophobphile]

You should have seen the size of the mushrooms in there. I thought i was living an episode of Aliens.

That had me rolling

In the past I had a mushroom grow to pretty big proportions and it happened fast. Also it was from Eco-Earth and in the one enclosure I dread having to mess with, my big female T. vagans that is psychotic.

 

[TheraMygale]

That had me rolling

In the past I had a mushroom grow to pretty big proportions and it happened fast. Also it was from Eco-Earth and in the one enclosure I dread having to mess with, my big female T. vagans that is psychotic.

eco earth may be just coco, but every source has its different spores. Ive heard other people say they had huge fungi in eco earth.

its true, we are all exposed and any sub can bloom. If the conditions are right. Its part of the challenge of keeping tarantulas in well suited enclosures.

 

[Arachnophobphile]

eco earth may be just coco, but every source has its different spores. Ive heard other people say they had huge fungi in eco earth.

its true, we are all exposed and any sub can bloom. If the conditions are right. Its part of the challenge of keeping tarantulas in well suited enclosures.

For me the challenge is dependent in which tarantula's enclosure it happens. Like my T. vagans that will kick every UrS at you until her abdomen is completely bald, rush you to bite or fly out of her enclosure.

 

[TheraMygale]

For me the challenge is dependent in which tarantula's enclosure it happens. Like my T. vagans that will kick every UrS at you until her abdomen is completely bald, rush you to bite or fly out of her enclosure.

i get that. My d pentaloris isnt so much on a mission to bite. Its skittish and defensive. But i am pulling fungi out of its “web den”. Thats the last place to poke in a tarantula enclosure.

if this happened in my obt’s enclosures… i think i might end up rehoming all together. So far, i have been able to do maintenance: they keep to their web tunnels. Doesnt stop one of them to slap like theres no tomorrow. The other one tornadoes a fee rounds before hiding. Getting bolus is always adrenaline rush.

this is the last of the fungi. D pentaloris was very upset. Hopefully, there should be no more…



this enclosure has plenty of prime located ventilation too..

 

[Arachnophobphile]

i get that. My d pentaloris isnt so much on a mission to bite. Its skittish and defensive. But i am pulling fungi out of its “web den”. Thats the last place to poke in a tarantula enclosure.

if this happened in my obt’s enclosures… i think i might end up rehoming all together. So far, i have been able to do maintenance: they keep to their web tunnels. Doesnt stop one of them to slap like theres no tomorrow. The other one tornadoes a fee rounds before hiding. Getting bolus is always adrenaline rush.

this is the last of the fungi. D pentaloris was very upset. Hopefully, there should be no more…

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this enclosure has plenty of prime located ventilation too..

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Sometimes it's just better to rehouse.

I might add my vagans will do that before I can ever get a catch cup on her. I love her, her attitude I do enjoy she's anything but boring.

Yeah that's a good size shroom. You could of just pulled that out with tongs like I do. A mushroom will not harm your T it's just unsightly. If it's just a mushroom and there's not a huge fungus layer in the substrate then just pull them.

 

[TheraMygale]

Sometimes it's just better to rehouse.

I might add my vagans will do that before I can ever get a catch cup on her. I love her, her attitude I do enjoy she's anything but boring.

Yeah that's a good size shroom. You could of just pulled that out with tongs like I do. A mushroom will not harm your T it's just unsightly. If it's just a mushroom and there's not a huge fungus layer in the substrate then just pull them.

thats what they were. Had about 4 batches in different spots. Removed them with tongs carefully.

d pentaloris is also very chunky. So hes going to get a long quiet time.

 

[fcat]

This is the biggest one I've grown so far

Fungus among us - identification request

Not really a plant so I'm happy to repost elsewhere but what in the Last of Us am I growing at the base of my Pamphobeteus platyomma enclosure?? The white sprinkles I believe is fungus as well but I'm not worried about it. It's the yellow tentacles I'm concerned about... I don't want to...

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[Arachnophobphile]

This is the biggest one I've grown so far

Fungus among us - identification request

Not really a plant so I'm happy to repost elsewhere but what in the Last of Us am I growing at the base of my Pamphobeteus platyomma enclosure?? The white sprinkles I believe is fungus as well but I'm not worried about it. It's the yellow tentacles I'm concerned about... I don't want to...

arachnoboards.com

That's a Purple Ribbon Winner of a mushroom there.