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I checked on this little guy tonight and found a MUSHROOM growing. I took a pic before I changed out the substrate.

I guess heat, humidity (and the fact that this guy is always in and out of the water bowl) and darkness allows mushrooms to spontaneously pop up out of cypress mulch.

What next!
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SPJ said:
What next!
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New and different substrate. Softer, looser, less pointed and not prone to rot or mold when wet. Go for a bed-a-beast style fine cocoanut fiber and mix it up with some rounder water retardant bark pieces; orchid litter or the cypress mulch with more bark and less pulp... about 50-70% the fine stuff and 50-30% the bigger pieces (to keep it from compacting down)- then cover most the visible surface area with slightly curved cork bark (or anything with that shape) and a ton of clumped sphagnum.

That shredded cypress pulp is rough and dusty and not at all ideal for candoia.
 
A good old microwave works great too. Just bag up the mulch in a plastic bag, add a little water (1/4 cup). Tie the bag up and put it in the oven for a few minutes, the steam will kill anything living in it.
 
Seamus Haley said:
New and different substrate. Softer, looser, less pointed and not prone to rot or mold when wet. Go for a bed-a-beast style fine cocoanut fiber and mix it up with some rounder water retardant bark pieces; orchid litter or the cypress mulch with more bark and less pulp... about 50-70% the fine stuff and 50-30% the bigger pieces (to keep it from compacting down)- then cover most the visible surface area with slightly curved cork bark (or anything with that shape) and a ton of clumped sphagnum.

That shredded cypress pulp is rough and dusty and not at all ideal for candoia.
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Thanks. I'll be changing out the substrate ASAP.
 
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