BeefSupremeJr said:

built this today.

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Very cool man!!!

fahtster said:

You’re making my OCD go crazy.. that bottom right corner hook is a little offset.



Jk

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anders said:

Nothing wrong with condensation.  It can and should be resorbed into the medium.  I go ahead and use the plates with condensate, and it clears up.  More humidity is good®.

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anders said:

Nothing wrong with condensation.  It can and should be resorbed into the medium.  I go ahead and use the plates with condensate, and it clears up.  More humidity is good®.

When stacking your plates after a pour, keep in mind that nasties are falling from above all the time, especially if you are in the kitchen.  I move my stacks into the lab next to the SAB and cover with clingwrap until use.

When pouring, only tip the lid up far enough to pour, then close. 

When culturing only tip the lid up far enough to work then close, even in the SAB.  I do this -and- culture my plates as vertical as I can,  and then close with my thumb. Have had virtually no contam since these (and other) practices, with six species.

I am always surprised to see those mixing 1.5%, 2%, and more MEA.  I guess my one post on this has had no effect.  You want lower nutes for contam to eat, and you want the myc to be reaching out for nutes so you can ID strong fuzzy myc.

At first I had horrible mold problems with my MiB species.  I found that mold often puts out long strands reaching out and over as much as 25mm before landing again on agar.  See that, you have mold.  Do a transfer the far side from it immediately and cabin.

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BeefSupremeJr said:

it doesnt reabsorb.

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anders said:

You want lower nutes for contam to eat

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Synack said:

anders said:

Nothing wrong with condensation.  It can and should be resorbed into the medium.  I go ahead and use the plates with condensate, and it clears up.  More humidity is good®.

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Well. I've had plates with condensation sitting in front of my hood for two days, and then unwrapped in a drawer for a week. It doesn't reabsorb for me. *shrug*

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BeefSupremeJr said:

how come nobody hears me when i say storing vertical gets rid of condensation? 🥺😭

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