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Post by mangoandlemon on Apr 24, 2015 15:53:38 GMT
Are there any ways to prevent mold? I am making a tank and some of my nice lichen has mold! Gerrrr! is there a way to fix that?
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Post by spook on Apr 24, 2015 16:48:10 GMT
I don't worry too much about mould to be honest...in a warm humid environment you're going to get it. My snails aren't bothered by it all so i don't worry about it either
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Post by cliath on Apr 24, 2015 16:56:22 GMT
I also don't bother much about mould, I've had mould on my lichen and the snails eat that up too
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Post by mangoandlemon on Apr 24, 2015 17:59:41 GMT
Oh i though i would hurt them...Welcome mold!
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Post by muddydragon on Apr 25, 2015 11:06:17 GMT
Lichen is an amazing organism. it's a symbiosis (two or more organisms living together to the benifit of one another) between algae and fungus. So the mould, depending on what it is like, could easily be part of the lichen.
Lichens are rediculously cool, alien and wierd.
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Post by mangoandlemon on Apr 25, 2015 13:58:09 GMT
Thats how i feel and the same for moss.
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Post by Zorst on Apr 26, 2015 18:42:46 GMT
Mine all love eating Lichens they don't last very long. But they really are a fascinating plant.
Zorst
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Post by etana on Apr 26, 2015 19:09:46 GMT
I've seen snails eat the hairs of hairy mold with good appetite, haha. I just don't like mold in my home, but snails don't mind it in theirs.
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Post by Zorst on Apr 26, 2015 19:45:37 GMT
Agreed Etana, I don't care for it in my home either. I also always clean it out the snail tanks before it gets to much of a foot hold though in warm weather that can be a daily ongoing battle.
Zorst
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Post by mangoandlemon on Apr 26, 2015 23:00:34 GMT
The mold I have is thick but gets spider webby as it grows. Is mold a plant?
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Post by spook on Apr 27, 2015 7:37:21 GMT
The mold I have is thick but gets spider webby as it grows. Is mold a plant? Mould is a fungus ....
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Post by muddydragon on Apr 27, 2015 9:25:00 GMT
As spook said mould is a fungus. Fungi used to be thought of as plants and studied alongside plants many years ago but actually fungi are more closely related to animals than plants. They have their own kingdom seperate from both plants and animals.
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Post by etana on Apr 27, 2015 12:53:53 GMT
Fungi are crazy though! There's a type that's adapted to radioactivity, in fact it seems to want to live in it; it is able to live in nuclear power plants, and last time I heard (a couple years ago) it was assumed that there may be some of that fungus living in the still very contaminated Chernobyl disaster area. It has one active DNA, and since nuclear radiation harms DNA, the fungus has not one, not two, but seven spare DNA's in dormant mode that it can use to repair the active one! The world's largest living individual organism is, as well, a fungus covering 3,7 square miles (9,6 sq km): www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141114-the-biggest-organism-in-the-worldAh, sorry Mango for the slight OT, I just love nature's strangeness.
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Post by Zorst on Apr 27, 2015 13:16:53 GMT
Likewise I love it to Etana, its fascinating to find all this kind of stuff out.
Zorst
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Post by mangoandlemon on Apr 27, 2015 13:50:29 GMT
Thats fine i love it to!
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