I am a new T owner. I found mold in one of my slings containers on the stick I had in there for him I pulled it out and tossed it nothing else seems to have mold on it I scooped out the little bit of substrate that had mold too. Should I do anything else?
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Not really. In the future, just picking out the mold and keeping them a little less stuffy would suffice.
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Increase the amount of ventilation your enclosure has....mold is a product of too much moisture and/or too little ventilation....fresh airflow restricts, if not prevents, the growth of mold....its unsightly, but not a tremendous danger to your t in small amounts.
What species of t is it??
What species of t is it??
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There are some things that mold easier than others. I use bagged topsoil, and occasionally a small twig or piece of wood will mold, but nothing else. I just remove it and the mold doesn't come back.
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I had a similar problem with my versi sling. If you need to then increase ventilation, so keep it less stuffy like Hobo said.
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You definitely don't want an Avic cage stuffy enough to grow mold.
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Yeah I tripled the amount of holes in it and now it seems almost perfect
It happened in both my enclosures for both T's one is an A. Metallica and I caught it when it was just starting. The other is a E. campestratus and it was all over the twig. Neither one of them are eating now also and they haven't been fed in a week
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I have had the same thing happen. Chuck the moldy thing and find something that doesn't.