Shrooms

[smy_749]

One of my enclosures has mushrooms growing near one of the plants, theres a few of them. Is this going to be harmful or should it be fine to leave them? Never had mushrooms spontaneously grow in a tank, and I didn't get the dirt from outside.

I have pillbugs a few millipedes and springtails roaming around in the bottom ....

[RandyRhoads]

Potentially harmful. Take a few pictures for me. Cut it in half lengthwise and take another picture like that. Note the color of any spores that have dropped on the caps of ones underneath other ones. Then remove them.

[smy_749]

Potentially harmful. Take a few pictures for me. Cut it in half lengthwise and take another picture like that. Note the color of any spores that have dropped on the caps of ones underneath other ones. Then remove them.

They are too small to cut in half, will just rip apart.

heres the only pic I could get somewhat clear. they are silvery grey, and when I grabbed the shroom part it seems the pores were black or dark brown. I pulled them all out. The exoterra has alot of substrate, its not wet though. Theres always stuff growing, it seems its coming out of the peatmoss. Including other weird green plants (not fungi)

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/p480x480/417925_132237150301050_897119799_n.jpg

[smy_749]

Bahahahahaah. So I posed that pic and another of the shrooms in my cage. And some kid on my facebook (I only use it for reptile stuff and hes the kid I got the GTP from) liked it. He thought it was drugs lmao

[smy_749]

Randy, no idea what it is?

[Terranaut]

I was just going to answer "Sure"!!

Ahh yes. I remember shrooms ;) They grow wild a few hours from my house. We could get a garbage bag full in a day round trip. Now this was 20 yrs ago mind you but yeah, they were fun at the time :)

Hey I"m just being honnest here ;)


Never seen them in a viv before ( those are not psylocybin).
Do you have similar mushrooms growing outdoors in your location?

[RandyRhoads]

Sorry been camping all weekend.

That is some type of Coprinaceae. Maybe Coprinus radians or C. micaceus, but without better pictures and more info I can't tell you which species exactly.

[RandyRhoads]

I was just going to answer "Sure"!!

Ahh yes. I remember shrooms ;) They grow wild a few hours from my house. We could get a garbage bag full in a day round trip. Now this was 20 yrs ago mind you but yeah, they were fun at the time :)

Hey I"m just being honnest here ;)


Never seen them in a viv before ( those are not psylocybin).
Do you have similar mushrooms growing outdoors in your location?


Psilocybe caerulipes...P. silvatica..?

Not many grow near Ontario... curious what you were picking.....

[smy_749]

Can I eat them randy? Bahahaha

We have all kinds of mushrooms growing in my front yard. But the weird thing is I didn't take anything from outside my house for this enclosure. And the one that ended up growing in there is not one of the ones I've ever seen before. I ripped them all out and stirred up the soil. We will see what that does for now.

[Terranaut]

I think it was Psilocybe semilanceata and there was a second kind that I do not recall. I will try to dig up some photos. They are all on film so bare with me. Both are common in moss field in certain areas of Quebec countryside. You need a friend who knows where to go. Typicaly we would find small patches of 30-40 shrooms and then walk to another patch in a mossy mucky mess but it was well worth it. At a huge camp out in 1990 we supplied over 100 people for free. It was crazy. Everyone was "feelin the love" so to speak. I haven't even had them in years but wow we had a blast.

[RandyRhoads]

Can I eat them randy? Bahahaha

We have all kinds of mushrooms growing in my front yard. But the weird thing is I didn't take anything from outside my house for this enclosure. And the one that ended up growing in there is not one of the ones I've ever seen before. I ripped them all out and stirred up the soil. We will see what that does for now.

Do not eat them. Some mushrooms in that genus are edible, and delicious such as Coprinus comatus, some like Coprinopsis atramentaria are edible, but contain Coprine, which is very similar to Disulfiram, which when taken with any alcohol causes horrible GI reactions.

Even if those were edible, they are too small and insignificant to think about eating...


As for not bringing anything from outside, there are hundreds of thousands of spores floating in the air at any given time. Most never get the chance to shoot out hyphae, because they need to land in the right environment to germinate, even if they get to that point, they need another spore/hyphal strand of the opposite sex in close proximity to fuze and form mycelium.

[RandyRhoads]

I think it was Psilocybe semilanceata and there was a second kind that I do not recall. I will try to dig up some photos. They are all on film so bare with me. Both are common in moss field in certain areas of Quebec countryside. You need a friend who knows where to go. Typicaly we would find small patches of 30-40 shrooms and then walk to another patch in a mossy mucky mess but it was well worth it. At a huge camp out in 1990 we supplied over 100 people for free. It was crazy. Everyone was "feelin the love" so to speak. I haven't even had them in years but wow we had a blast.

Ahh...thought you were hunting in Ontario, not Quebec. Those definitely sound like P. semilanceata. Common pasture actives, fruiting in large numbers. Long thin tall stems, bell like cap with a pointy nipple on most?

[smy_749]

Do not eat them. Some mushrooms in that genus are edible, and delicious such as Coprinus comatus, some like Coprinopsis atramentaria are edible, but contain Coprine, which is very similar to Disulfiram, which when taken with any alcohol causes horrible GI reactions.

Even if those were edible, they are too small and insignificant to think about eating...


As for not bringing anything from outside, there are hundreds of thousands of spores floating in the air at any given time. Most never get the chance to shoot out hyphae, because they need to land in the right environment to germinate, even if they get to that point, they need another spore/hyphal strand of the opposite sex in close proximity to fuze and form mycelium.

Yea I was messing, I don't do drugs or smoke or drink or anything at all. Never even smoked a cigarette. And I studied all that life cycle junk in plant pathology, but I never saw it in any other enclosures and that species I've never seen in my area. I think it came in with the moss I bought at home depot, or even spores on one of the plants ....

[RandyRhoads]

Yea I was messing, I don't do drugs or smoke or drink or anything at all. Never even smoked a cigarette. And I studied all that life cycle junk in plant pathology, but I never saw it in any other enclosures and that species I've never seen in my area. I think it came in with the moss I bought at home depot, or even spores on one of the plants ....

Junk?!?!
:unhappy::unhappy::unhappy:

I wasn't referring to anything drug related with you eating that species of mushroom....

[smy_749]

Junk?!?!
:unhappy::unhappy::unhappy:

I wasn't referring to anything drug related with you eating that species of mushroom....


Oh, I was referring completely to drug related matters when I asked initially :D lol

And I like botany admittedly, I just took a random plant pathology class for related subject material, and it turned out to be a very akward class with me and 9 farmers and turf grass majors. The professor asked what everyone's favorite plant was, and I was the only one who didn't have an answer lmao

Spent 4 months talking about grass rusts and fungal rots of corn or whatever, so I hated it. Sporangia, basidiomycetes, oomycetes, SOooooooo many life cycles. I got a C ..

[RandyRhoads]

Oh, I was referring completely to drug related matters when I asked initially :D lol

And I like botany admittedly, I just took a random plant pathology class for related subject material, and it turned out to be a very akward class with me and 9 farmers and turf grass majors. The professor asked what everyone's favorite plant was, and I was the only one who didn't have an answer lmao

Spent 4 months talking about grass rusts and fungal rots of corn or whatever, so I hated it. Sporangia, basidiomycetes, oomycetes, SOooooooo many life cycles. I got a C ..

Ohh....

You're lucky...I can't wait until I have the chance to take an actual class on some biology/mycology.....

You can't be hating on parasitic grain fungi....some very er...great things were discovered thanks to that :laugh:

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d86/randy666rhoads/psychedelic-albert-hoffman-with-molecule_zpse70702d8.jpg (http://s33.photobucket.com/user/randy666rhoads/media/psychedelic-albert-hoffman-with-molecule_zpse70702d8.jpg.html)

[smy_749]

Ohh....

You're lucky...I can't wait until I have the chance to take an actual class on some biology/mycology.....

You can't be hating on parasitic grain fungi....some very er...great things were discovered thanks to that :laugh:

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d86/randy666rhoads/psychedelic-albert-hoffman-with-molecule_zpse70702d8.jpg (http://s33.photobucket.com/user/randy666rhoads/media/psychedelic-albert-hoffman-with-molecule_zpse70702d8.jpg.html)

I'm not hating on the parasitic fungi, I'm sure they are very good and parasitic and what not. I just don't like the whole subject because of my horrible professor and extremely awkward class. In my 4.5 years of college, I've taken quite a few random classes haha Some of them I enjoyed and some of them not so much. Basically anything to do with biology I've taken at my Uni lol Microbio, biochem, biology, ecology, genetics, animal behavior, animal physiology, blah blah blah.

[Terranaut]

Most evolutions of art and music have come from distortions of reality involving mind altering materials. We owe a lot to hallucinogens. Not everything "bad" is bad.

[smy_749]

I didn't say its bad, I just haven't done it any of it :P
I'm not big on art either (don't hate me for saying that) ....

[RandyRhoads]

Most evolutions of art and music have come from distortions of reality involving mind altering materials. We owe a lot to hallucinogens. Not everything "bad" is bad.
Most evolutions of art and music have come from distortions of reality involving mind altering materials. We owe a lot to hallucinogens. Not everything "bad" is bad.
It disgusts me. The horrible taboo image the media has painted on hallucinogens. Most people freak at the thought of people taking them, like they're some sort of low life meth head druggy. I just got back from a weekend long psychedelic campout. People you'd expect to be doing psychedelics? Well just at this particular one I met a geologist, a kindergarten teacher, a doctor, along with many other people with prestigious jobs and years of education.

Yep, you're typical "low life druggies"....:suspicious:

I think everyone should check out the documentary on the history called "The Stoned Ages"

It might just open peoples eyes a bit...

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[RandyRhoads]

I didn't say its bad, I just haven't done it any of it :P
I'm not big on art either (don't hate me for saying that) ....

Sure you are. I used to say that about art. But art is all around you, you may just fail to realize it. Everyone likes music.....

[smy_749]

I knew someone would say that. I dont listen to music. I'm a pretty strange kid, no music is hard to believe but I just dont do it. No music on the iphone, dont listen to anything in the car, nothing. :-P

[RandyRhoads]

I knew someone would say that. I dont listen to music. I'm a pretty strange kid, no music is hard to believe but I just dont do it. No music on the iphone, dont listen to anything in the car, nothing. :-P

Yeah, you are....


What are you some sort of robot:suspicious:

*Quietly sings*....C'mon people now...smile on your brother everybody get together....

...you know you liked that...

[smy_749]

If its a song reference I dont know it. An the 'quietly sings' made me picture a full grown man singing about smiles in my ear. Kinda creepy hahahah. And yes , I am a robot. I've never tried to figure out whats wrong with me, been traveling since I was young, never got home sick or missed family. I'm pretty unsocial, and have a somewhat normal upbringing...lol. skipped every school dance, skipped graduation in highschool. I like it this way :-P