I wouldn't bother to try to preserve these shelf fungi artificially if they won't grow naturally in your vivarium. Did you introduce them along with the dead wood and all? Just try stuff, and when it doesn't work, let it alone and see what happens next. If you introduced them dead wood and all, and they died off, you may still be in for some other surprises if you have patience for surprises that may take a year or more to show up, and don't care what form they take. If you try to preserve their structure by virtually sealing them off in a lifeless state for looks, you might as well just go for plastic plants. These fungi are more complex than they appear. The mycelium from a fruiting body of any mushroom type may even originate from the soil substrate many yards away before it climbs a dead tree and makes its fruiting brackets, perhaps years later. They are nearly always "untransplantable" as we find them, especially temperate zone fungi into a tropical environment. Keep it, watch and see what happens next.
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Patty

Pahsimeroi, Idaho



4 D. auratus blue

5 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back

5 D. imitator

6 D. leucomelas

4 D. pumilio Bastimentos

4 D. fantasticus

4 P. terribilis

4 D. reticulatus

4 D. castaneoticus

2 D. azureus

4 P vittatus

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