Some may die but most will live through this surgery. Indoors, keep your stag out of the way of hot or cold blowing air. There is no particular care for your staghorn fern except to provide the proper conditions as explained throughout the text above. Outdoors, leaves and other airborne materials will fall onto the moss backing your staghorn. As these materials decay, they provide added food for your stag.
Most staghorn varieties are very easy to grow.
However, some are very difficult and can very easily be killed by fungus, usually via too much water. If you have a staghorn fern, it is probably Platycerium bifurcatum. Other varieties include grande, willinckii, hillii, coronarium, veitchii, alcicorne and sumbawnse. Do not touch your stag and thereby remove the protective fuzz. P. wandi P. wilhelminae-reginae P. willinckii P. willinckii var.