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Hi! Any wood or other organic product in a crabitat with the correct conditions will go moldy. Looking at it one way, it’s actually a pretty good sign that your humidity levels are in a healthy range, so - good jobKristenL0522 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:18 amHey all! I got some cholla wood from cholla queen on Etsy and I soaked them and let them dry out as much a possible. I will say that I was pretty eager to get them in my tank and didn’t let it dry ALL the way out and now it’s moldedany way to avoid that for the future? I am soaking it again and may bake it. Just seeking suggestions.
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Good note GotButterflies, I should have qualified my statement: isopods eat the decaying organic matter on which mold also feeds. So the competition for food source via the introduction of isopods is what leads to less mold. I tend to overcomplicate matters generally, and sometimes I swing towards oversimplification as a mitigation strategy; useful in some contexts, but not allGotButterflies wrote: I would also like to mention that isopods don't eat mold, but springtails do
DragonsFly wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2019 4:17 pmI always put a small fan in the tank (a little plastic "personal desk" fan, I've usually found them at Walgreens), on a timer so there's a "breeze" on a regular basis. The crabs love it--they would often sit on a high place in front of the fan and just wave their feelers around in the breeze--and once I added that in, I never had mold problems again (which I had like CRAZY until I started having a fan). I do keep it on a timer so I can regulate how much it is on or off, because it is another factor that will affect temp and humidity.