Hello. This is going to seem like a weird question, but I have a test tube filled with sugar water and I have noticed over time that some of the cotton in the tube is coming off and floating in the water. Should sugar water best be served in a tray or could this just be something normal?
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Sugar Water Test Tubes
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Re: Sugar Water Test Tubes
Its fine
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Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Re: Sugar Water Test Tubes
Sounds like just some loose cotton drifting off. Shouldn’t hurt anything.Whitelotus wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:07 pmHello. This is going to seem like a weird question, but I have a test tube filled with sugar water and I have noticed over time that some of the cotton in the tube is coming off and floating in the water. Should sugar water best be served in a tray or could this just be something normal?
Thanks for reading and have a nice day.
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Re: Sugar Water Test Tubes
Give fresh sugar water in small doses unless the colony is very large and drinks it quickly -- otherwise it will just ferment or feed microorganisms, which is what I suspect the cotton-y material would be.
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Re: Sugar Water Test Tubes
Most likely not cotton, but mold. sugar water molds very quickly. It shows up as a whitish, stringy, semi translucent substance
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1x Formica Pacifica
2x Camponotus Modoc
1x Tetramorium Immigrans
2x Lasius Sp
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2x Formica Argentea
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Goal: Supply school science classes with colonies for learning.
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