I want to regularly redo my habitats and so far I’ve just been taking a small patch out into a new habitat before cleaning the previous one.

So far only small slimes have developed and I just threw them into the trash.

Now I’ve got a ton of slime in my new big habitat but there’s also some mold adding ugly colors so I want to redo it finally.

I’m just worried that throwing this much into the trash that it may grow out of there especially since waste services have been doing a bad job lately sometimes skipping a week.

Is they any risk with having a large blob disposed into a humid and dark garbage container for possibly a week or a little longer?

Have you ever had one of your slimes grow out of the trash or what’s your experience with their survival once they come in contact with your trash?

This is a new culture but it suddenly turned browning, what could it mean?

He is very big yes I don't know what to say sorry if its blurry

Is this a slime mold?

Michigan. I grow some sphagnum and other bryophytes that require a lot of moisture, responsibly in regards to conservation/sustainability. I rarely see anything growing on the sphagnum except their microbiomes they rely on. This is on dead material that’s more nprone to establishment. Last two photos are contents of the fruiting bodies at 400x with phase contrast. Thanks for any help. I’m familiar with a lot of my local slime molds in natural communities, but haven’t studied them much.

I’m very pleased with my happy blob home

Anyone identify this yet?

credit: Kutub Uddin

My first time finding this species

It was dangling, almost like a piece of phlegm. 🤢I'm assuming it's some type of mold? Which, if it is the case, I'm completely grossed out. (I don't drink tap water, but still). I just got a Britta for my cats, to think they've been drinking this when I've run out of their bottled water ... would Britta even filter out something like this? I'm so disgusted by whatever it is.

Thank you.

Any guesses what type this is? I moved some to a clean paper towel in a new container, these are the collection containers so they got pretty gross. I can take more pictures if needed. One part got damaged and turned a dark reddish brown if that means anything (top left of the picture with the larger slime)

Hello! Has this bit of Physarum polycephalum started to fruit? If so what should I do with it now? This tank I was using wasn’t great in the end and I moved a lot of slime into a moss terrarium which it seems happy with, but this guy dried out :(

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!