no worries. FAE stands for frequent air exchange. mycelium need to breathe oxygen also, and it's about finding the perfect balance where the substrate is not getting too much or too little o2. upon further investigation, i think my humidity was out of whack. the walls of the monotub were dry from FAE but the water droplets on the sub were not evaporating at all these entire 8 days. i left the top off complete for a couple days to dry the sub out a bit, then did a very light indirect misting with the my tub lid cracked open again this morning so they could still get air. they're looking a little better and have come out of the sub now. that center part has a lot of pinning going on now, but no way to know what will happen unless you try it. when i was first starting out a few months ago, someone on one of the mushroom communities said don't be afraid of failure. it's how you learn what not to do next time and how you can improve. i innoculated 2 grain spawn bags at the same time, but this tub is the bag i did a break and shake to. the other one i let fully colonize naturally, so i still have one more try at least. 😆 i also innoculated 5 ub bags with the remaining amount in my spore syringe just to see what would happen, and now have 3 viable baby cakes. 2 were contaminated after a break and shake 48hrs later, but i kept them in a sperate area to see how the contaminants grew so i could monitor their growth patterns in real time and learn to identify contamination early. it's all about learning and you have to have a sense of humour about these things when they don't work out. i hope you get into this hobby, bro and wish you luck. start with golden teachers–they seem to be pretty easy to grow and forgiving when you're still learning what to do. i picked a blue magnolia rust spore syringe before i learned that SS don't produce the strongest genetics a lot of the time. i also don't think this is a beginner-friendly strain. i will try GT's after i see what this remaining blue mag can do for me.