I had the same problem with B. utricularis sclerota.  B. utricularis seems to touch oats and then streams away.  I believe it prefers rotting wood because it is looking for bacteria to eat, it also loves to eat paper products like brown cardboard (paper towel tubes).  I currently don't have any B. utricularis because it died with my termite culture and am writing all this based on memory. 

I am guessing that slimoco is free to join and there are no membership fees because I haven't seen anything that says otherwise. 

Hi Heather, Thankyou for your welcome, and what a great site! We loved your workshop and the appoach of your artistic practice. I hope the pictures I posted do the workshop justice. Sadly my own culture died before it got started - maybe it got jolted on the journey home, but it has withdrawn completely and has shown no signs of life. I feel like a murderer.

hi heather,

unfortunately, my slime mould died :( It turned into black spores overnight! And from what I heard from the other people, most of theirs didn't make it as well. I would really like to try it once again - do you think there's any way I can arrange to get another sample? cheers

hmm i see. well, i kept it out of light completely and it had plenty of food nearby, just never reached it... But yes, as I said, would love to give it another go so if you can send another plate to nathan that would be great! thanks!!

Hi Heather,

Thanks for your comments about my blog.

I hope you don't mind, but I have made an informative short entry about your visit here.

Yes it survived for a few weeks, died last week :( Where do you get it from? And those are the photos I took, Josh has some too! 

Please let me know about the research lab actively working in physarum polycephalum.

I am interested to join the lab.

thank you