Is this moss or something I should worry about ?!
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jajeanpierre
Chameleon Enthusiast
It is fungus, not moss or mildew. It is probably pretty harmless to a healthy chameleon--fungus and bacteria are part of the natural world and how things are broken down.
martinlemus
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thank you guys
Lathis
Chameleon Enthusiast
I stand corrected - fungus!
(Off topic: JJP - Have you read Mycophilia by Eugenia Bone? It's a great popular history on fungus, mushrooms in particular.)
martinlemus
Member
but it's safe right ? I shouldn't be worried ?
jajeanpierre
Chameleon Enthusiast
No I haven't but I will have to get it--my husband is a real mushroom freak. I'm a little more cautious eating anything he picks now after he sent us both to the hospital misidentifying a puff ball mushroom. His mother told him there were no poisonous puff ball mushrooms...... Wrong!
jajeanpierre
Chameleon Enthusiast
Probably. It is an indication that maybe you need to clean your cage a bit more often--that fungus didn't grow in one day.
martinlemus
Member
how often you clean your cage ?
brownie64
Avid Member
It looks like mold to the kind you can get in a newly set up vivarium. Put some springtails in there and they will keep it cleaned up for you. I would try to keep the poop cleaned up because you wouldn't want a cricket eating that right before your cham eats it. I do a visual check every day, and take out any feces I see. And I do a major cleaning once a month.
martinlemus
Member
springtails?
