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New to slime moulds -- How many times can I grow a dish out and inoculate other dish with part of the original mould? Endlessly?
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How to get a physarum culture
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tips for grain mite contamination?
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JPG to Video Software.
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Effect of temperature on slime mould growth.
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SPAM Message
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growing Physarum Polycephalum
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Music Video - we would like you to participate
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Physarium nutrition
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Prefered substrate
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Unidentified other mold
Posted by Mimi Osborne on November 25, 2021 at 20:37 1 Comment 0 Likes
Slime Mould commission
Posted by Núria Rovira Terradas on November 18, 2021 at 13:23 0 Comments 2 Likes
Maizie V Larry
Posted by AndyGadget on November 17, 2021 at 17:00 1 Comment 0 Likes
Can Physarum polycephalum detect a magnetic field?
Posted by AndyGadget on November 15, 2021 at 10:46 1 Comment 0 Likes
Another time lapse brewing.
Posted by AndyGadget on November 1, 2021 at 22:28 0 Comments 0 Likes
Maizie's Travels.
Posted by AndyGadget on November 1, 2021 at 16:00 0 Comments 1 Like
Template for 85mm Petri Dish.
Posted by AndyGadget on October 29, 2021 at 17:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
First video (Now up!)
Posted by AndyGadget on October 28, 2021 at 21:00 0 Comments 0 Likes
Time lapse rig
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Maizie, Day 4.
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"It looks like cladosporium - it's common and will grow on pretty much anything. They're mostly harmless. Physarum is very tolerant of fungi and will just grow around them but if you've got mould you'll probably also have yeasts…"
Unidentified other mold
Whilst monitoring the growth of my physarum polycephalum culture, I noted the formation of an unidentified green mold. It does not seem to be impacted the growth of Molly (the physarum polycephalum) however is visibly apparent. Attached is a photo.…See More
"You'd send me some? That'd be so greatly appreciated. I'm in the US if that matters for if you can or not. I will DM you with some of my info and I'll pay whatever the price and shipping you say is"
"My money's on the slime, they're quite partial to lichen"
"The egg is made up in agar in the literature, I've also mixed it in with oats.
I can send you slime...."
"Hi, I'm a scientist from Italy! I'm actually new to slime moulds, that have been suggested by a bioinformatics friend of mine when I asked for suggestions about an educational program. With some collegues, we are planning to organize…"
Slime Mould commission
I did this commission working with slime mould and food coloring about a year ago and I realized I never shared it on this page! So here it is for anyone interested:…See More
"Nice thanks for the answers! It makes sense that they'd just make a large circle if everything around them is just food! By 10% powdered egg, what's the other 90%? Or is 10% like just how you buy it I've never heard…"
Maizie V Larry
This week's bout features Maizie the Physarum polycephalum against Larry the Lichen (heritage unknown). Larry is the heavyweight and the younger of the two at a mere 250 million years but it's thought the agility and experience of Maizie (600…See More
"I've just recently found that my Physarum polycephalum prefers muesli oats to the porridge oats I was feeding it. It would also enclose a piece of crystallised ginger (also from the muesli) but suprisingly, not interested in a bit of…"
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Yeah - in principle you should be able to keep one going indefinitely. The Dusstour lab do theirs by half filling a petri dish with a semicircle of oats, adding slime to that then filling the other side and scooping out the old.
In…"
New to slime moulds -- How many times can I grow a dish out and inoculate other dish with part of the original mould? Endlessly?
Can I keep my one physarum polycephalum endlessly if I were to grow him to his dish fully, and inoculate another dish with a part of his self and tons of oats and then repeat that process?Another question: do they just like water agar and oats or…See More
"There's a paper that claims they can just sense it natively, I don't buy it either - I've also tried, they don't even react to hard drive magnets directly under the dish.
Some organisms do sense magnetic fields though - my…"
Can Physarum polycephalum detect a magnetic field?
There is a paper detailing how a slime mould can be guided by loading it with ferromagnetic particles and steering it with magnets, but I was wondering whether an un-modified physarum could detect a magnetic field.I ran a set of 4 time-lapses using…See More
"Hi all, in the last year I've started growing mosses at home. I tried some lychen as well, but those guys don't like being indoor so much. :s recently I've been learrning more about the awesomeness that is slime moulds and would be…"
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