growing mushrooms in viv

[jzorn]

I just read a post where someone had a mushroom pop up in there viv and i thought that would be a cool addition. I read a couple of articles on growing oyster mushroms from the ones you buy at the grocerey store. My question is. Do you think growing a mushroom... from the store that you can eat. in your viv. Will it do any harm to the frogs? could they get sick, or harmed in anyway?

[DaFrogMan]

The frogs would probably not be harmed. But it will be very tough to "seed" your viv for mushrooms. A mushroom is basically the fruiting body of a fungus. If you were to seed the viv with mushroom spores, it would still be a while before the fungus got to the point that it was even ready to push up a mushroom.

The best way would probably be to put a stick from the woods into your viv.

[forestexotics]

I posted this same question a few weeks ago. I was told to try picking shrooms from the wild and replanting them in my tank. Hopefully the spores will be spread throughout the tank and then little shrooms will pop up. I havent had any luck yet, but I do have the occasional small white mushroom pop out of my moss. I picked my moss from the woods where I know no pesticides have been sprayed and I guess theres spores in the moss.........Good luck to ya!...........Sara

[dr_octagon]

Ive grown various edible mushrooms before. Most take about a month to start popping up. Youll notice tiny little pinhead mushrooms sprouting. They build a network of this white webbing underground so just keep an eye out cause it can get thick.

You cant use the ones at the store because they have already dropped their spores. Best bet is to go online and buy the spores you want. Alot of places sell sheets of paper with spore prints on them or syringes with a solution containing the spores.

They pretty much take care of themselves. Like i said be careful becasue given the right conditions you will have yourself a nice mushroom farm with no room for anything else.

I guess you could eat any extras (only if they arent from the wild of course)

[dartfrogs]

Hi,

Another thing to keep in mind is that many fungi are host specific or at least prefer one type of wood over others. Some types of fungi simply will not take in terrariums due to differences in temperature and humidity as well. We have never seeded any of our tanks and have a huge variety of mushrooms. The main thing to have is patience. It takes the average tank at least a year before it has matured enough to grow them well. Fungi spores ride air currents by the billions and seem to colonize tanks with the right conditions for the given species. The tanks that show the best variety are ones that have been set up for at least 2-3 years without being touched. One of my favorites is a tiny white one that likes cork bark in our tanks that have been set up for about 5 years now.

Richard

[joeyo90]

thats probably why i dont get mushrooms to often ive only been keeping pdf's for 2 years and dont have a tank over 6 months old my year old tank was just re-done because i set it up stupid before...