no, imo, glow in the dark mushrooms should be considered a visual novelty only and are not suitable for a cham in cage environment.
the xanthoman , has grown one buttload of mushrooms in his life of many different kinds. ive never actually grown any of the glow in the dark varieties. but this is what i can tell you.
*most shrooms whether edible or not, are extremely high in phosphorus, which is not cham friendly. agaricus bisporus, typical store white button mushrooms are typically have an inverse Ca
ratio as low as Ca
1:18, thats 3600%,(or 36x more phosphorus) than the desired cham nutritional target of Ca
2:1.
ive never actually researched glow in the dark mushrooms, but as a wild guess id say it would seem likely that glow in the dark mushrooms have a significantly higher phosphorus content than agaricus bisporus, meaning MORE than 36x too much phosphorus.
the 2 most likely available varieties of glow in the dark mushrooms
are the jack-o-lantern mushroom (omophalotus illudens) and the luminescent panellus (panellus stipticus) both cause severe gastrointestinal distress and considered inedible. the panellus stipticus is mildly toxic, but personally, i would be more worried about their beyond astronomical phosphorus content.
http://americanmushrooms.com/coolest.htm
a couple of other things to consider. all gilled mushrooms put out large volumes (literally clouds) of spores, that like to grow in warm moist environments (like cham lungs) and imo in the enclosed sometimes damp environment of a cham cage, especially with a species as delicate as chams could pose a respiratory issue. chams are noted for getting respiratory infections anyway. so imo, as general practice, the idea should be to do our best to provide an environment that discourages mold/spore/fungus production.
another thing to consider is that mushrooms are mostly water, and may have an alluring moist look, even when the rest of the cage is dry. to be honest, i think its probably unlikely that the chams would actually eat the mushrooms, because both are considered impalatable, but then for the most part so is dirt, which is not uncommon for chams to eat. but i think the possibility that under some circumstances, they might drink from them, poses a real threat due to the extreme phosphorus content.
plus, cricks will eat anything, and i would be real concerned about cricks chewing on the fungus before getting eaten. even if you cup feed, its not uncommon for an escapee or two to go unoticed overnight giving them plenty of shroom munching time before breakfast. ok, maybe not likely. but i wouldnt want to rule it out or bet my chams health on it, just something to consider.
i dont see anything wrong with setting up an aq or exo-terra and growing them in the same room (as long as there is some exchange of outside air) but i wouldnt be comfortable setting it right next to the cham cage.jmo
i learned how to grow mushrooms in 1975. after a year of failed tries. a friend of mine stepped in to show me all of the little things i was doing wrong. in the 20 years that followed we had many large successful grows of different varieties both together and independently.
i think that shroom growing is a lot like cham keeping in that respect just having a few things not quite right can mean the difference between success or not.
when the 90s came we both had other things going on, and so the mushroom days sort of faded into history, but the memories never did. for the next dozen years or so, we always talked about growing some more shrooms, but we never did. he was diagnosed died of inoperable lung cancer in 2006, i was with him when he died one year later. he was an amazing dude, i rember about a year before he was diagnosed and we were in the bar together and a grizzled homless lady that most guys would never even talk to came into the bar wanting to bum a smoke and change for a candy bar, he bought her a pack of smokes and a deluxe cheese burger.he taught me how to razor clam, salmon fish he taught me a sense of adventure and also outdoor survival, but most of all, he taught me how to laugh, something i have done very little of since he has been gone. he was my life long friend and i miss him dearly.
after a sharing a life of every conceivable self abuse with him and after handling many dangerous lab chemicals and thousands of infected cultures, it was finally cigarette smoking that got him in the end.////
flash forward... in 2010 i ran into a mutual friend that i hadnt seen in since my other friends death. and he suggested we do a grow as a tribute to our friend. these pics are from that grow. sorry for the thread hijack, imo, nix on the in cage glow in the dark mushrooms. jmo
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