Subterranean Ecology Question

[Eric Mason 37]

So there is supposed to be a lot of fungus, OK, got that. And there are a bunch of scary predatory things, OK, got that. What eats the fungus and gets eaten by the least scary predators?

I've been trying to find the missing fungus eaters... Does anyone know what they are? Or is this one of the gaps in Pathfinder waiting for GMs to invent creatures?

Thanks for any help,

Eric

[MrSin]

For some reason I think the fungus eats the critters and the critters eat the other critters...
I want to say dark stalkers eat mushrooms, but I guess it doesn't say that directly. It says they build their homes from it. Anyone could eat mushrooms right, maybe it just doens't specify a mushroom eating fiend?

[SteelDraco]

Roleplaying game bestiaries always have way more predators than there are prey, because encounters with predators are usually more interesting.

I would generally assume a lot of things we would think of as creepy-crawlies, largely dire arthropods like cave crickets and giant lobsters. Also giant salamanders.

[Adamantine Dragon]

Fungi-grazers eat the fungi, and are then preyed upon by fungi-grazer predators. What are the fungi-grazers? Well, there are the mycocervidai, which are a sort of fungal deer, and there are the mycoleporidae, which are small hopping fungi with large web-like sound-catching protrusions on their heads, but my favorites are the mycocorvids, which are nesting winged fungi that fly around in the darkest caves using darkvision.

[Lurk3r]

Moles maybe? Larger-than-average-but-not-quite-giant insects?

[Cranefist]

Lurk3r wrote:

Moles maybe? Larger-than-average-but-not-quite-giant insects?

In before obvious...

Rodents of Unusual Size?

[Strannik]

Cranefist wrote:

Lurk3r wrote:

Moles maybe? Larger-than-average-but-not-quite-giant insects?

In before obvious...

Rodents of Unusual Size?

Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.

[cnetarian]

The big predators eat the fungus. The fungus is bland and not very enjoyable to subsist upon but it is enough to tide the predators over until adventurers show up to be eaten, since adventurer is the preferred dietary component for subterranean predators.

[MrSin]

Hmm... Oddly enough, I found fungus, but the fungus were monsters that ate adventurers. Maybe its Fungus that eat the big predators, but only to tide themselves over for adventurers.

[Vod Canockers]

Small rodents, insects, etc.