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Has anyone seen mold/fungus like this before?

It's a slime mold. They're actually colonial protists with very interesting life cycles. It looks like chocolate tube slime, but I've never seen it growing down like that. They usually grow on rotten wood, but upright.
 
Only one picture works, and it justs looks like someone took a crap between the panels of the ceiling.


: ) Amanda
 
Originally posted by: de9ali
Check out this mold-fungus thing that was growing from the ceiling of my friends house. Anyone see anything like this before?

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Its the brown spikey looking thing in the middle of the picture.

Weird huh?
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Wicked!!!!!!!!!!
 
Does he have any unexplained health problems?? I've read a lot about molds giving people serious health issues even to the point of forcing them out of their home.
 
Originally posted by: lirion
It's a slime mold. They're actually colonial protists with very interesting life cycles. It looks like chocolate tube slime, but I've never seen it growing down like that. They usually grow on rotten wood, but upright.
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Originally posted by: Mo0o
That is some nasty crap. Your friend should try to clean up his house a little more.
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It's not a matter of being clean. Their spores are everwhere, and were probably on the wood before the house was even built. He's obviously got a roof leak where they're growing. The life cycle of a slime mold might be only a few hours long once they get moist and start to grow. You could literally spring a leak in the hight and wake up with these things growing there the next morning. They draw their nutrients directly from moist wood. The only thing you can do to prevent them is to eliminate the moisture. Fix that leak and they'll go away.
 
Originally posted by: lirion
Originally posted by: Mo0o
That is some nasty crap. Your friend should try to clean up his house a little more.
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It's not a matter of being clean. Their spores are everwhere, and were probably on the wood before the house was even built. He's obviously got a roof leak where they're growing. The life cycle of a slime mold might be only a few hours long once they get moist and start to grow. You could literally spring a leak in the hight and wake up with these things growing there the next morning. They draw their nutrients directly from moist wood. The only thing you can do to prevent them is to eliminate the moisture. Fix that leak and they'll go away.
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Wow, good stuff to know. Thanks lirion.
 
You need to get that removed as it can be pretty dangerous especially if he has small children or anyone with a compromised immune system living in that house. Certain molds like that have been known to kill people if left to long.
 
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