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you should post a picture if possible. Is it white fuzzy mold? like food mold,  or a stringy like stuff that grows under the substrate and sticks to the bark? cause fuzzy stuff is most likely a bad mold, and you probably should just replace substrate, and scrub the wood and enclosure with soapy water(spores will be EVERYWHERE, thats why it keeps coming back). If its white, kind-of stringy root looking stuff thats probably just a mushroom-like fungus that comes in with the bark. I've had it in my cage before, it didnt worry me cause it wasn't producing spores and my tegu wasnt eating it. What happens below the substrate in my cage I just let happen, its like a mini-ecosystem. I even found an earthworm once, NO idea where it came from...


Sounds like your doing everything right so far though. And yes springtails love fungus! I have never added any but have tons living in the bark, I assume they came in with it.

Congrats on almost getting a baby! Theyre the coolest


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