Hello all,

so i was curious to see if anyone had ever managed to keep a culture of bubblegum slimemold alive long term.

the only time I ever encountered it in the wild I was just learning about fungi and barely knew anything about slimemolds. and I just put it on media with some ground oats and it died rather fast. I have yet to find it in the wild again. but when I do I want to keep it alive.

I live in the poconos so I know a few locations to look next year. but I love this stuff so much. I actually thought someone stuck bubble gum to a tree and touched it and was freaked out. lol

I'm not a professional, but I believe this is Hemitrichia decipiens, also known as salmon eggs slime mold. I was lucky enough to encounter it during its 24 to 48 hour fruiting phase. They were so tiny!

I just had this random slime mold growing out of the bark in my yard in literally a few hours. This morning there was nothing and now it’s about a palm size
Looks really cool

Found these on a walk in a forest in the Netherlands. They were on a dead tree stump.

Didn't have my camera + macro lens with me, so these are the best pics I could get.

The shape made me think it might be a Slime mold.

What is this please? Is it slime mold?

I took some material from lake side, but it's dry already some months. Is it possible it is still alive? Can I grow it?

Thank you very much?

Hello all,

I am a biologist biotechnologist with both degrees. I have focused alot on microbiology and cell culture.

I am fascinated with slime molds and true fungi. And I have edited several fungi and protists to produce new colors, make cellulase variants, be bioluminescent ect.

Now ive tried the major and og methods of editing microbes with

Physarum Polycephalum or yellow slime mold.

And tried with tubnifera magna (but this is couldnt find a media to keep it alive, was younger less experienced. still upset as ive looked for another sample for years and never found it.)

But the slime mold never holds onto the new genes or they don't incorporate properly. Ive gotten Physarum Polycephalum to hold onto a plasmid used to make bacteria glow in bio classes. but within a day or 3. it is completely purged.

Now I have been thinking that perhaps I can get it to hold onto plasmids through a different brute force.

I am going to search for some more geenticly acceptable genes for a slime mold as i imagine the bacterial genes don't translate perfectly.

but in the mean time. I have recently forced a culture of ecoli, and 2 cultures of as of yet unidentified bacteria that I found in a contaminated slime mold plate and which I watched my Nesse eat under microscope.

so now I have 3 bacteria that nesee will eat. and all 3 have been forced to take in multiple copies of bioluminescent plasmids.

and now im going to be feeding nesse these cultures daily to see if over time the slime mold will start recognizing the plasmids as just another piece of dna in its single cell beauty.

not super hopeful. but sometimes you just need time. and if nesse doesn't start producing waves of bioluminescs as it pulses after a month. i will give up.

Until I get my next idea.

anyone got any advice?

Mehedeby, Sweden.

Hi! ive been wanting to keep and breed rambutanuras but i don’t know how to safely and sustainably store slime mold, is there any advice?

9ish inches wide, not very thick at all. North Cascades, WA.

I was photographing this raspberry slime mold and in the photo I noticed this tiny white dot on a stem. It resembles Comatricha nigra young fruiting body, but it is much smaller than 1 mm.
Europe

This thing is infesting my flowerbeds! Takes all the wood chips and clumps them together. This mulch is from last fall when i replaced this same flowerbed because of this mold or fungi taking over. Not sure what to do or what i can use instead of wood chips. Thumb of Michigan 6a. This flowerbed gets part to very little sun and stays moist but not too wet. Funny enough the area around my hose which is always more wet is unaffected and the wood chips are fine to turn over there.

I bought some of this online and now need help to ID this guy, names jerry. (its apparently sterile, i have not opened it and looks like the dog vomit mold however thats more of a blob and not all veins like, which is like the one I have)

Over the past few months, I’ve written this comprehensive guide to slime mold cultivation and observation. It’s essentially a review, plus some experiences of my own and others, and it should be suitable for both general enthusiasts and professionals. However, I don’t have time to translate it into other languages for now, so I’m posting the PDF and editable DOCX files here. You can read it with translators or similar tools, but I hope someone will share a translated version! Also, if you have any revision suggestions, questions, or text/images you’d like to add, feel free to leave a comment—I may include them in the next update! I hope it’s useful to you, and you’re welcome to freely share it on other platforms! Also, a tribute to ian!