Mushrooms?!

[New Desert Tortoise Mommy]

So it had been very hot here in cali, but recently it had rain for a small chunk of the 2 days and very heavy . Well i found mushrooms in their enclosure and got sorta of worried. What if they would have ate them??

 

[wellington]

http://m.thetortoisetable.org.uk/m/plants_19.asp?st=true&mode=main&catID=817

Mushrooms are fine, but unless your are an expert on ID-ing them, an edible mushroom from non edible and from a fungus, only store bought should be fed.

You will have to make a daily search of the enclosure until there is no more fungus, toad stools or whatever it really is growing.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

If I feed or grow shrooms, and quaduple check five times over to male sure they're safe. Or just buy them from the store just in case Yes, I would a very close eye on that to make sure nothing else grows that you don't know about!

 

[New Desert Tortoise Mommy]

Yes well do our was very odd that i found some so i will be checking *** much as possible. I don't want to risk it with them plus they are very easy to remove

 

[tortadise]

This thread I did on safe mushrooms to feed. I'd stay away from all others. They're a fungi so can be very very difficult to properly identify. Especially wild ones. They can grow in similar forms of others but different enough to make it confusing.

http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/mushrooms.93321/

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Mine seem to know instinctively. They eat some and ignore others.

 

[Tom]

Some of the wild mushrooms can be deadly toxic. As Kelly noted they can be VERY difficult to ID, even for people who study them. I would not let my tortoises eat any mushrooms that were not of the store bought, safe for human consumption variety.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Here with the rains and rotting matter here and there, mushrooms will pop up over night and be eaten or trampled before I've even seen them myself.

 

[Tom]

Here with the rains and rotting matter here and there, mushrooms will pop up over night and be eaten or trampled before I've even seen them myself.

Well then you had better hope that none of the toxic ones pop up and get eaten.

 

[Yourlocalpoet]

So it had been very hot here in cali, but recently it had rain for a small chunk of the 2 days and very heavy . Well i found mushrooms in their enclosure and got sorta of worried. What if they would have ate them??

Eurgh. I have this problem ALL the time as summer turns into autumn. I have to do a daily mushroom sweep. I hate them. Something about them
cropping up overnight creeps me out. It's actually worse where I live now as my turf is freshly laid, the soil is very compacted and the grass is just saturated by dew most mornings.

Just make sure you check your enclosure daily and pick them before they spread spores. Shudder.


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[ZEROPILOT]

This years crop are very small and dainty. I can't be sure, but it looks like the sunlight also kills them. I went out for a look this morning at about 4:00 a.m. while walking the dog. There were several dozen. I'll do a search on the internet as to what type, etc.

 

[Clawem]

I had read an article a few years ago that American Indians wouldn't eat box turtles because they always saw them eating poisonous mushrooms and thought they may be poisonous also.

 

[New Desert Tortoise Mommy]

Well seems to have gone away from the torts box and went to my veggie box but I always bring my torts inside at night and check before I bring them outside