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Newbie questions

Hi all, I’m very new to the world of keeping slime molds and found a few wild specimens on a walk yesterday, and have already placed them i…

Started by Carter in Links & Resources

1 Sep 19, 2020
Reply by ian

Got myself a new wild slime!

was thinking about Ian's post on biosecurity and not spreading Carolina worldwide, and the easiest option I could think of was to find my o…

Started by Patrick Barry in Links & Resources

6 Sep 15, 2020
Reply by Patrick Barry

Tales from the slimery

Hi  I've been literally up to y knees in petri dishes for the last four weeks - round three of breeding kicked off with my highly inbred li…

Started by ian in Links & Resources

2 Sep 3, 2020
Reply by ian

Colourimetry

One thing I've noticed breeding slimes is they vary in colour. Anyone who's got Daywalker and Mazie on the go might have noticed that Dw is…

Started by ian in Projects & Ideas

4 Sep 3, 2020
Reply by ian

Convex hull and going beyond oats

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13683377 Herbal sleeping tablets - extract of valerian root to be specific. This has the p…

Started by Patrick Barry in Links & Resources

0 Aug 27, 2020

Slime moulds in digital form

Quite a few projects going on to replicate their behaviour in the grasshopper community: https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/physarium-slime-in-

Started by Patrick Barry in Links & Resources

0 Aug 13, 2020

Are physarum eating bacteria on oats?

Hi all, I have been getting an increasing amount of mold on my plates and was wondering about ways to mitigate that. I assume one source co…

Started by Adam Strandberg in Links & Resources

5 Aug 13, 2020
Reply by RyChu

Daywalker - is it 'blind''?

I should have done this ages ago. Daywalker doesn't make spores when exposed to day light. We know physarum requires daylight exposure to s…

Started by ian in Exhibitions & Events

9 Aug 13, 2020
Reply by ian

Spores now available!

I've managed to build up a good stock of spores from some of my strains ( loads of them seem to be unable to spore ), if anyone wants some…

Started by ian in Links & Resources

2 Aug 13, 2020
Reply by Patrick Barry

Slimes, safety and world distribution.

HelloI'm glad to have found this forum, because I'm really interested in slime molds and there are not many books about them and hardly any…

Started by ian in Links & Resources

1 Aug 13, 2020
Reply by ian

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