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Green mould. Lack of cross ventilation and a digging Tarantula.
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<blockquote data-quote="WolfieKate" data-source="post: 233835" data-attributes="member: 41766"><p>I am a beginner so just sharing my mould/moldy experience. I got an A Geniculata and I made it a lovely rain forest enclosure which it promptly redesigned with digging and tall turrets of substrate. But the more she dug, the more soil was above ground keeping the moisture below ground instead of drying out. She dug so much there was more soil on top and I should have removed more of the heaps. The surface soil dried out but made her cork bark go mouldy and the inside of her tunnel. Even though i’d stopped adding water weeks ago to dry it out it couldn’t. </p><p></p><p>It was only when i got in there deep with a torch that i could see how bad it had got - mold everywhere through her tunnel. so i rehoused her this morning (sorry Iris). Lessons in a lack of cross ventilation and bark with soil on both sides will rot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WolfieKate, post: 233835, member: 41766"] I am a beginner so just sharing my mould/moldy experience. I got an A Geniculata and I made it a lovely rain forest enclosure which it promptly redesigned with digging and tall turrets of substrate. But the more she dug, the more soil was above ground keeping the moisture below ground instead of drying out. She dug so much there was more soil on top and I should have removed more of the heaps. The surface soil dried out but made her cork bark go mouldy and the inside of her tunnel. Even though i’d stopped adding water weeks ago to dry it out it couldn’t. It was only when i got in there deep with a torch that i could see how bad it had got - mold everywhere through her tunnel. so i rehoused her this morning (sorry Iris). Lessons in a lack of cross ventilation and bark with soil on both sides will rot. [/QUOTE]
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