HELP! PLEASE!

[jareeed2]

Hello yall havent been on in a while, rverythings been going smooth untill i noticed these skinny mushrooms growing up the side of my tort table!! Heres some pics.. I have a soil/cypress/moss mix..

 

[Blakem]

All I know I that mushrooms grow in a really moist environment. Please, if I am incorrect, anyone correct me.

 

[murdocjunior]

mushrooms are a fungi if im correct

 

[jareeed2]

 

[Yvonne G]

Mushrooms grow on something that is rotting. There is either some old food buried there or maybe some tortoise poop. If you don't like them, its time for a substrate change.

 

[Levi the Leopard]

Emys, does this mean that if he did like them and wanted to leave them there that it would be safe for his tortoise to eat?

 

[Millerlite]

My tortoises would eat that. Lol I've havent had mushrooms grow in I'm enclosure for awhile but when they did the turtles or toetoises would get to them first

 

[jareeed2]

Emys, does this mean that if he did like them and wanted to leave them there that it would be safe for his tortoise to eat?

This is what im wondering! Ill keep em and change the substrate soon, but if they r bad for them i want them gone, if not ill expose them and let the torts munch away thankss!!!

 

[Laura]

not all mushrooms are safe amd unless you REALLY know your shrooms... be careful with ID'ing them...
they like it moist, dark and poppy...

 

[Millerlite]

A lot if the mushrooms that are toxic to humans are not to toetoises. My box turtles also love mushrooms. Outdoor my toetoises would eat them as they came up.

 

[sibi]

Once my tort ate a wild mushroom and I remembered thinking that it could be poisonous, but then I know that these torts know more than we do about the kinds of foods that aren't good for them. Since nothing happened, i assumed it was fine. Personally, i would just change the substrate and clean out the enclosure.

 

[acrantophis]

Those grow in my outdoor tortoise enclosure whenever I put in new, particularly black, humus. Especially the kind with little sticks and twigs in it. As they rot the fungus grows in the soil. The fruiting body of a mushroom only represents a small part of the fungus. Like an iceberg, the majority of a mushroom grows under the ground in the soil. The fungus is spread like a web underneath. If you turn over the substrate, and air it out, you should be rid
Of them. Incidentally my Chloe eats that
Particular mushroom occasionally.

 

[Moozillion]

It's hard to see the detail well on my iphone, but that doesn't look like mushrooms to me. It looks like seeds sprouting with the seed case/shell still covering the topmost leaves. Have you tried pulling one up and picking it apart? If there's ANY green in them, it's a sprout.

 

[N2TORTS]

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, laugh hysterically for no apparent reason and they leave you alone! "

.....Sounds like SHROOOMZZZ to me ....!

Darn I miss the 70's and 80's ....

 

[Moozillion]

Tee hee hee!!!

 

[jareeed2]

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, laugh hysterically for no apparent reason and they leave you alone! "

.....Sounds like SHROOOMZZZ to me ....!

Darn I miss the 70's and 80's ....

Hahaha oh boy, i shouldnt tell my friends about this then! Should i take em out N2?
Should i pull one and get a closer pic?

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

One concern I would have in reusing the soil after drying it out would be the dried spores becoming air borne. Inhalation could have some very bad lung effects. I'd toss it and replace it with fresh, organic top soil mixed 50/50 with peat moss. They say mushrooms in your lawn are a good thing because it represents a healthy composting cycle, but I don't know if that's what we're trying for in an enclosure.

 

[Levi the Leopard]

Once my tort ate a wild mushroom and I remembered thinking that it could be poisonous, but then I know that these torts know more than we do about the kinds of foods that aren't good for them. Since nothing happened, i assumed it was fine.

interesting...i have some wild mushrooms that occasionally pop up in my yard

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

With all the known safe plants we have for our tortoises, for me, feeding a wild mushroom that is potentially poisonous to a tortoise would be slightly irresponsible. Buy some fresh mushrooms at the store. As far as tortoises knowing what is good to eat, we wouldn't have threads about how to get rescues to eat good food after they have been getting bad food.

 

[N2TORTS]

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, laugh hysterically for no apparent reason and they leave you alone! "

.....Sounds like SHROOOMZZZ to me ....!

Darn I miss the 70's and 80's ....

Hahaha oh boy, i shouldnt tell my friends about this then! Should i take em out N2?
Should i pull one and get a closer pic?

I would yank them .....for now no need to take chances. As Yvonne' mentioned you will need to sterilize the area and fresh substrate.
Here is a good shroom resource...... www.rogersmushrooms.com
JD~