Mushrooms

Hi everyone i got a question bout mushrooms and other fungi. My dad found this beautiful fungi growing on a section of a dead fruit tree in our backyard, I was gonna put it with my frogs, but could mushrooms be dangerous? I know a majority of them are poisionous and frogs absorb things through their skin, so I decided not too but I've seen vivs with mushrooms and I was wondering if these were selected because they are not poisionous or just that mushrooms pose no problems for frogs regardless if they are poisioness or not.

Thanks,
AJ

I have never heard of a mushroom killing a frog. I think they would have to accidentally ingest the shroom to get hurt by it.

I would put it in. The frogs living in the wild must encounter really wild and insanely poisonous shrooms in their forests on a daily basis. I figure its ok.

[slaytonp]

The only disappointing thing, is the mushrooms probably won't just grow after you introduce them. But they may crop up much later from spores, or you may even get some other spontaneous mushroom growth from the substrate as your tank matures. The mushrooms we see are only the fruiting body of a much more complicated mycelium that sometimes grows for years in the substrate before producing the fruiting body. (Transplanting mushrooms is not as simple as transplanting a blooming petunia.) Dart frogs don't ingest mushrooms, even accidentally, so there's no reason to worry about any toxins that work as internal poisons after ingestion. These aren't contact irritants. I might be more concerned with the leap and gobble toads and frogs that may get a mouthful of plant material along with the insect they are after, but darts pick off their prey specifically and don't bite into stuff.

Is there anyway to have fungus(mushroom) friendly substrate in ones vivs??

[slaytonp]

Nothing specifically that I have discovered. They just come and go as they feel like it It's not like growing Shitakes-- you just can't plan for them and still have the other things going on in the tank. They are merely delightful, unplanned incidents.

I need a delightfully unplanned appearance. Got to seed my tank first I suppose.
Thanks.

why not buy a mushroom grow log and lean it against the back of the viv and ignore it, if it grows mushrooms then it will be cool and if not its somewhere for teh frogs to climb and plants to grow over.

I've never heard of these mushroom grow logs. Tell us more please.

[scooter]

i want to bump this because i was on a walk recently and found some bright orange mushrooms growing on the base of a tree. i've never seen anything like this in nature. they almost glow they are so bright. how do you make these safe for frogs?

where did you go walking??