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Does it Poop?
Started by Sephen in Links & Resources. Last reply by Kenneth Ramos on Friday. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Sourcing Physarum
Started by Heather Barnett in Links & Resources. Last reply by Sephen Mar 8. 38 Replies 5 Likes
Some tips for my research?
Started by Deimos Denzil in Projects & Ideas. Last reply by Alexander Mockensturm Mar 1. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Why the physarum whitens?
Started by Gaspard Bébié-Valérian in Projects & Ideas. Last reply by Gaspard Bébié-Valérian Feb 21. 2 Replies 1 Like
So how do we use slime for evil instead of good?
Started by ian in Projects & Ideas. Last reply by Gaspard Bébié-Valérian Feb 15. 4 Replies 0 Likes
I need Physarum Polycephalum
Started by Veronika in Links & Resources Jan 31. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Need help keeping sampe form being contaminated
Started by Dante Solano in Links & Resources. Last reply by ian Jan 17. 1 Reply 0 Likes
I found a very strange phenomenon
Started by liuduyaya in Links & Resources. Last reply by ian Jan 14. 5 Replies 0 Likes
Some questions about growing slime molds
Started by liuduyaya in Links & Resources. Last reply by Lukas Jan 4. 15 Replies 0 Likes
Mutation!
Started by ian in Projects & Ideas Nov 6, 2018. 0 Replies 1 Like
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Need help: starting a slime mould culture
Posted by Anastasia Bragina on December 10, 2018 at 17:28 1 Comment 0 Likes
Hello World!
Posted by Annelie Wallin on November 4, 2018 at 19:13 0 Comments 0 Likes
P. Polycephalum in London next week, opening Tuesday 18
Posted by Jan-Maarten Luursema on September 13, 2018 at 22:09 0 Comments 1 Like
QUESTION ABOUT PHYSARUM
Posted by mint taste slime mould on July 21, 2018 at 6:44 1 Comment 0 Likes
Help??
Posted by Alexander Ludlam on July 12, 2018 at 15:47 0 Comments 0 Likes
Let me know about something.
Posted by mint taste slime mould on June 19, 2018 at 11:31 1 Comment 0 Likes
An experiment with food coloring and bongo music
Posted by Jan-Maarten Luursema on June 16, 2018 at 18:19 0 Comments 0 Likes
I won science fair.
Posted by mint taste slime mould on May 29, 2018 at 13:00 4 Comments 3 Likes
Q. Eva - Would you like to be eaten?
Posted by Jan-Maarten Luursema on April 20, 2018 at 14:06 3 Comments 0 Likes
Food
Posted by mint taste slime mould on April 13, 2018 at 4:20 1 Comment 0 Likes
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"Didn't know that, I've got to give it a try."
ian replied to Sephen's discussion Does it Poop?"The white trail is pretty much it. If you feed them a little powdered charcoal in their oats, you'll see how they pick it up and excrete it in their slime trail. They'll do the same trick with some fabric dyes which leads to some…"
"That is a good question, one that I have yet to see addressed anywhere since I have been studying slime molds or may be there was and I just missed it. However, I have noticed that everywhere P. polycephalum goes, it leaves behind a…"
Sephen posted a discussionDoes it Poop?
I have no experience with slime mould yet and I'm not a biologist but i assume they do excrete waste like any organism.So does it produce fecal matter of some sort or is that the white trail it leaves behind?CheersSephenSee More
Sephen replied to Heather Barnett's discussion Sourcing Physarum"Hello,
I live in the Netherlands and would like to get my hands on some slime mould. But until now I'm not able to find it. Is there someone who can send me some? I would happily pay for any costs...
Thanks in advance!"
Axio 0002A Corticolous myxomycete against P. polycephalum
Though the wind may occasionally gust and howl against the window pane, still here in the solitude of my home laboratory, the quiet, so ever present, is deafening. It is a cold late winters evening, though the days are becoming longer the dark, so…
"Hi Jan,Thanks for your answer. I wouldn't have thought you've done that manually :DThe project is going slowly because I have several issues to solve. Now, I'm trying to grow the physarum on laser engraved PVCs plates. This isn't…"
M0178A Mite and P. polycephalum, being in the wrong place at the wrong time . . .
Not to say that anything is being consumed as food but it sure looks as though it is. However, P. polycephalum feeds on the microbial fauna that may accumulate on various substrates including mites and other hapless creatures that may get in the…
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