Re: Re: Stachybotrys slime and colors -

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I don't have link any more. I put

stachy+slime+white in google to find. I found it

often mentioned that stachy produces a slime over

the top to protect colony. I saw pictures of

black slimey stachy in google images. Then I

read that stachy can be any color. I read that

color depends on what it is feeding on, somewhere

else I read that often is white in beginning.

Anyway, I heard enough to be curious about my

slimy stuff. It is not a round thing like I

think of mold so I was dismissive but when I read

color would depend on it's food and this was

cream colored feeding off of cream colored

culture plate, I was motivated to get it

analyized. I sent it off today. It was from my

chimney and as Jeanine mentioned bird dropping

highly likely in chimney. Cap of my chimney blew

off at one time and is how it got water damaged.

I should have filed an insurance claim but I

didn't know it had a cap ever. Found out later

it did, so it must have blown off. I'm on

hilltop and sometimes storm winds can be very

strong. Then birds did used to sit on it since it

was open and warm air coming out there. A couple

bird got gassed by accident and fell into chimney

and were flying around house, two separate times,

so could have bird droppings in there, so mold

could feed off of that. Could be bacteria growth

I guess also. Know nothing about how bacteria

looks in culture plate. However since links I

kept pulling up referred to glossy stuff as

slime, I used the word slime+white, along with

stachy to find info.

--- SUSAN JOHNSTON <susanljohnston@...>

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> Barb,

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> Do you have the link to or the name of the

> website that said mold is white in early stage?

> Was it Stachy or all mold?

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> Thanks!

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> Sue

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