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Sounds like contams buddy. The next best test is smell. If you can smell the rancid odor of eminant shroom death then throw them out it's too late for them. Especially if it's cobweb mold. You don't want the stuff near your house if you growing. Eventually once we get enough people to grow shrooms we might could all collaborate and eliminate the dreaded cobweb mold from Earth sort of like the Polio virus.
------------------ Trying to rationalize with an irrational person, is in itself irrational!
It definitely may not be contamination. Just to inform...not a conclusion but...Sometimes cubies will switch to fine linear mycelium especially if there is not enough moisture or nutrients present. No need to waste resources on ropy mycelium used to carry water and nutrients to developing shrooms if the moisture needed isn't there. So this could be an indication that your mix is too dry. Or the natural selection process could have just resulted in a thin linear mycelium. No way to tell from where I'm sitting. Regardless good luck...typically if I have a problem with a crop it is with cob web mold...I hate the stuff.