Strange Slime mould

[Jasmin Marker]

I soaked rice in salt / bleach water, then autoclaved it thinking this would act as a barrier but the slime mould still went for it. (I didn't feed it for 2 days maybe it was desperate) The brown long stuff is valerian root, I read this thing that they go crazy for it. In other Petri dishes it did crazy for it, not here though...

Here I let the slime mould chose between dry-autoclaved oats and oats put in a methylene blue/ isopropyl solution. To my surprise it chose the methylene blue oats.