Life as Metaphor

 the leaves have started to break down in the soil-water... it smells quite lovely.
like a wet autumn-leaves and faint sweet alcohol smell (ethanol from breaking-down cellulose).
the colonies are being lifted a bit by all of those tiny bubbles, but sink back pretty easily..
the water is getting a bit cloudy..
shalom! - Juju & co.

( algae pics... )

 first culture arrived Apr. 17, 2018.

added "soil water" medium; the algae seems resistant to beetles/germs/etc.
filaments are a bit visible (appearing more fuzzy than fischerella); colonies forms much smaller balls (appearing as tiny pellets, and not "clouds" of cotton candy)

they create "false" branches, and the branches are tapered at the ends.
see: http://www.cyanodb.cz/db/Tolypothrix/Tolypothrix.jpg

shalom! - Juju.

( algae pics.... )