So today I was spot cleaning Tangy's cage. Under his bottle he keeps a small food hoard consisting of food crumbs, a few pieces of his food mix and a lot of poop. However he doesn't eat from that hoard as far as I know- he keeps a bigger one with whole pieces of food in a different spot.
About a week ago his bottle was leaking a bit and made the substrate soggy under the toilet paper roll stand. I removed the wet substrate daily but unfortunately I didn't know how far the water had seeped into the bedding.
Whenever I was spot cleaning I cleaned out the area around the bottle. To my horror a part of the food hoard had what looked to be some green fuzzy mold on it
I'm assuming it grew whenever the hoard got soggy from the water bottle because it wasn't like that whenever I spot cleaned about 10 days ago. Tangerine made a new burrow whenever the bottle got leaky- I assume he didn't like sleeping with damp substrate on top of him. So he hasn't been sleeping next to the moldy food as far as I know but I'm still a bit concerned for his health. Would the moldy hoard have any ill effects on him? I know mold isn't good to breathe in over a long period of time. He has been acting normal and doesn't seem to be sick. I know I'm probably overreacting but it's a little concerning whenever you find green mold in your hamster's cage.
Mold???
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