Recently, young people have started to have "new pets" again!
Following the "Pet Stone" and "Mango Core".
A slimy-looking "mystical creature" - slime mold
Become the "new favorite" of many young people
There are also quite a few people in this regard
There are many questions about slime mushrooms: are there any health risks?
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Recently, some parents in Hangzhou mentioned slime molds
said that her baby wanted to keep it as a pet
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Open the social platform
This "very niche and very characterful pet"
The discussion is not small
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What exactly is slime mold?
According to popular science bloggers, slime molds are neither fungi nor bacteria, but a kind of eukaryotic domain-amoeba group-slime bacteria, which are non-toxic and harmless.
It has two phases throughout its life: the vegetative phase and the reproductive phase.
The slime molds in the vegetative stage are called protoplasm masses, which are a bit like a network of mucus and grow in dark and damp places, such as the back of fallen wood, the crevices of floor tiles, and the humus layer. They are constantly splitting into branches and crawling around, devouring food particles to obtain nutrients, so they crawl around looking for something to eat, much like animals.
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When it reaches the breeding stage, the slime mold will crawl to a slightly dry, sunny area, stop eating, and the whole protoplasm mass will collectively metamorphose, growing fruiting bodies like mushrooms or clumps of powder to disperse spores.
Slime molds move, multiply quickly in the environment, and can be dyed with pigments, showing a unique patterned shape.
Young people started keeping slime molds as pets
On the shopping platform, there are many products that pop up when searching for "slime mold", and hundreds or even thousands of people buy each one.
Some sellers said that at first, most of the buyers who bought slime molds were college students and young people in their twenties and thirties, and later the number of elementary school students who came to buy slime molds increased. "Now everyone's life is relatively stable, and many children and young people like these novel gadgets."
How to raise it exactly? A buyer said: "It's not difficult to get started, when I bought the material package, the merchant came with a more detailed feeding tutorial, it is not a creature that particularly likes light, pay attention to maintaining temperature and humidity when feeding, and replace the pad paper in time, the food is generally fed with crushed oatmeal, about 3 to 5 times a day, and some other details that you don't understand, you can quickly understand the video by yourself." ”
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"Raising slime mushrooms" is fun
There are also some issues to be aware of
According to the breeder, due to the strong growth and reproduction ability of slime molds, it is necessary to pay attention to the problem of polluting the environment, because if you are not careful, you may make this scene that makes people's "scalp numb":
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According to the breeder, when replacing the bedding, some slime bacteria will remain on the old bedding, but in order not to pollute the environment, it is necessary to use boiling water to scald the slime bacteria on the old bedding and climb to the outside of the bedding.
In addition, the keepers also warn that slime molds can be contaminated by mold and even die. This situation must also be dealt with so as not to have an impact on human health.
Keepers also caution not to go to the wild to collect slime molds if you don't have enough knowledge, so as not to breed mold. In addition, it is also necessary to pay attention to cleaning up, so as not to pollute the environment once the escaped slime mold survives successfully, and the slime mold will produce spores during the reproduction process, which may cause adverse reactions such as allergies if inhaled by the human body. In short, when treating slime mushrooms, you can try to be careful and cautious at the same time.
- Source: Hangzhou release
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