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Subject: What would be involved with keeping a pet myxomycete?

Date: Sun Apr 24 20:45:47 2011
Posted by Tiago
Grade level: undergrad School: No school entered.
City: No city entered. State/Province: No state entered. Country: Brazil
Area of science: Microbiology
ID: 1303703147.Mi
Message:

I've read about them a bit in a couple places on the 'net and watched a few
timelapse videos of them going around; but all the info i've found about keeping
them as pets seems to only go as far as saying where to find them. I would like
to know what is involved in keeping myxomycetes healthy; i imagine i could start
with an empty aquarium that got a good lid, add some things for the envyronment
and throw a banana peel or some bread crumbs every few days, but i guess that's
probably oversimplifying things; i want it to be healthy, but also grow to the
biggest size that would be suitable to the enclosure and stay in the "giant
amoeba" phase for as long as it wouldn't harm it, and to move around as often as
possible (of course only to the extent that wouldn't harm it).


Any advices?


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