Wake up a slime moldis the most important step when deciding to raise a slime mold. Without it, you won't be able to start the adventure with your slime mold and enjoy all its features. It is therefore necessary to ensure that this step is done in the best possible way. On this page, we are going to give you all the keys to wake up your slime mold.
Don't have a blob yet? come discover our 6 mysterious organisms!
Things to know before waking up a slime mold
Before embarking on waking up your slime mold, several actions must be carried out so that everything goes well when you start waking up your new friend. The first thing to do is to learn the basics of breeding a slime mold, in fact, although not very difficult, you must always make sure you have all the information before setting off on an adventure. For this, we have created a tutorial that traces from A to Z everything you need to know about breeding the blob.
Once this step is done, you must now prepare the environment that will host your slime mold. Beforehand, make sure you have all the necessary materials at your disposal, namely a Petri dish, a test tube with oatmeal and an agar agar capsule, a spatula, wooden tongs and a pipette. Its elements will allow you to facilitate the awakening of your slime mold. You can find all of his items directly in our Breeding Kit or in the Blobshop store.
Environment design:
To develop the environment that will host your slime mold, you must prepare the agar-agar, the surface on which we will be able to place our slime mold and on which it will be able to develop. The agar-agar will allow us to give our slime mold a moist environment as well as a surface that will greatly facilitate its movement and therefore its evolution.
Be careful, in order to avoid contamination as much as possible, it is important to try not to touch the agar, the oatmeal...
For it :
- Remove oatmeal and capsule from test tube
- Fill your test tube halfway with water
- Pour the contents of the test tube into a glass of water
- Insert what is in the agar agar capsule into the glass of water, then mix everything
- Put the glass of water in the microwave (a little more than a minute)
- Pour the substance into the Petri dish and leave for 10-15 minutes
Wake up your slime mold in minutes
Now that you've done all the preparation to best welcome your slime mold, it's time to move on to the moment you've been waiting for the most: waking up.
Steps to perform:
- Using the wooden tongs provided in the breeding kit, grab the small paper on which your blob is sleeping deeply and place it on one edge of the Petri dish with the agar.
- Using the pipette, place 3 drops of clear water on the sclerotium (sleepy slime mold) to moisten it
- Retrieve the oats that you had put aside and dig in with the pliers, about twenty flakes that you will distribute over all of the agar, present in your Petri dish.
- Close the lid and put the box away from light to make it easier for your body to wake up.
There you go, you have just woken up your first blob, easy isn't it? As you go, your slime mold will grow and create a whole network of veins around the oatmeal. Generally, you have to wait a short day.
What to do after your sclerotia wakes up?
Once you have validated the previous step and your slime mold has colonized all the space, you still have one more step to perform: “the move”. Indeed, as you have seen, your slime mold is growing and starting to take up space, so you have to offer it a larger habitat so that they can continue in its momentum.
As for the alarm clock, it will be necessary to prepare the new habitat. For this, you will of course need the slime mold in its Petri dish, but also the second test tube provided in our kit, the large Petri dish and the spatula.
Preparing the Large Petri Dish:
- First of all, wash your hands
- Open your boxes
- Pour the contents of the test tube into a container and remake the agar as when waking up, but this time for the large Petri dish, taking care to fill the entire test tube with water (and not half as for the small box).
- Place the agar you have just made in the large Petri dish.
Once you have prepared your large Petri dish, it's time to move on:
-
- Remove the small paper on which the sclerotium rested and throw it in the trash.
- Distribute the rolled oats evenly on the second agar, without making a heap (do not put them on the slime mold).
- Close the lid and put the large box away from light.
- Here we go again for 24 hours (approximately) of growth. With the spatula and your hand (clean of course), take all of the first agar from the small Petri dish and place it on the edge of the large dish (on the second agar).
Open Blob Breeding Box
Once your slime mold has largely migrated onto the second agar, you will need to remove the first agar. Note that it will be necessary to add oat flakes to the empty area, once the first agar has been removed.
You now know everything about how to wake up a slime mold and you can start to achieve the experience you want, especially that of the labyrinth Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about the awakening or anything else.
List of blobs offered by blobshop
