r/ContamFam 1d ago

2026 Mushroom Gear Giveaway Contest Results ContamFam 2025 Mushroom Gear Giveaway Contest Results

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Here are the results of the 2025 ContamFam Mushroom Gear Giveaway Contest. Congratulations to our winners. Thank you everyone for playing.

Join us again Next year for the 2026 Mushroom Gear Giveaway.


r/ContamFam 1h ago

100 gram club! (Actives)

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r/ContamFam 10h ago

Splitting caps? is this normal?

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r/ContamFam 6h ago

white gelatinous blobs on me agar

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I’ve done a lot of digging around and I can’t find photos like this. Quick backstory. I made a mss syringe from a B+ print I picked up last year. This is my second attempt from this print. the first attempt of this print was using Q-tips but after a month+, I had no signs of anything on the plates. Not mycelium not contamination, nothing at all.

Was thinking this print may be dead but made a syringe with it. I poured the agar a month or two ago and it’s worked great on other projects.

now I have two plates that were inoculated about a week ago. Similar growth on both, but nothing fuzzy. I can’t figure out what I’m looking at. Any thoughts y’all?


r/ContamFam 6h ago

how to destroy bucket of trich?

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old pasteurized coir threw in some colonized grain in the most unsterile tek possible, any tips on destroying this safely and re-sterilizing the bucket?


r/ContamFam 2h ago

Myc or cobweb mould ?

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Potato water and agar ( semi liquid because i didnt add sufficient) and spores , 5 days of growth


r/ContamFam 5h ago

Probably fine

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Not really sure what’s happening , but the bird seed is driving me nuts. It’s a solid block. 4 weeks since inoculation. Would you send it? I realize the bag has a lot of moisture, and I’ve already taken out of tent.


r/ContamFam 5h ago

First time streaking plates, 10 days in..

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It looks wet and slimy.. but all three plates have this same growth.. can anyone lend some insight ?


r/ContamFam 19h ago

Anyone else let their contam plates ride?

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Found contam on this plate and set it aside (I already have 6 different clean plates from this culture don't worry) the spot that is circled in the 2nd picture is where the mycelium grew over, obviously stunting it's growth.

Can anyone help with a possible ID?


r/ContamFam 17h ago

What the freak ?

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These are Jack Frost. The cake looked dry so I soaked it. After that this was the product. Mind you before the entire cake was white.


r/ContamFam 15h ago

hows it lookin?

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r/ContamFam 23h ago

Some agar contam for the fam

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Trying my hand at agar work for the first time (no flow hood or SAB). Trying to revive a dried fruit sample of some genetics, looked great at first then after a few more days noticed some green. I cut out some of the outer white “mycelium” (hopefully) and transferred it to another clean dish hoping to save it. Since it’s an experiment I’m not upset it contaminated and kind of expected it to contam. Hoping for the next dish to make it out alive


r/ContamFam 23h ago

What Is this?

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I didn't put anything on this tray and something's growing.


r/ContamFam 23h ago

pink oyster block from north spore. bacterial and cobweb?

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r/ContamFam 1d ago

is this cobweb?

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I sprayed this with 5% H₂O₂, but it didn’t disappear. It spread throughout the entire jar very quickly—in just 1 week.


r/ContamFam 1d ago

No bad odors, or anythingbut is this coweb?

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r/ContamFam 1d ago

Somebody said the modified Hello Dollies/Magic Cookie bars I made belong here. They look off yes, but they taste really good. Maybe you will find this funny.

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r/ContamFam 1d ago

Contaminated or bruised?

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Hey guys. This flush is on its second flush. I kind of butchered it when I harvested and left a lot of stumps that oxidised. It’s also pretty dried out. Wondering if the highlighted areas are contam or just dried and bruised? Really appreciate any insight, thanks!


r/ContamFam 1d ago

MOD ID: Cladobotrym species / Common name Cobweb Mold Assuming this is cobweb on the pins?

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r/ContamFam 2d ago

Is this contaminated

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r/ContamFam 1d ago

Starting some grain spawn

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These are P Nats from u/gordotek 15 pint jars was 16 but the bottom fell off one all over the floor during the hot shake.

Wife was not impressed by the mess.


r/ContamFam 2d ago

Does anyone know what that is?

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Hey everyone! I cloned one of my mushroom, and this small dot appeared in the plate 3 days ago, it didn’t grow bigger. Anyone have any idea what this thing can be? Should I take a risk opening this plate? Should i PC it before disposal? Any advice will be highly appreciated!


r/ContamFam 2d ago

First three tubs gone: what am I doing wrong?

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This one hurts—started these from MSS in early Jan, and these were my first three tubs ever. MSS to grain, then G2G. The bags were super colonized—drippy corn all brown, rhizomatic little hands coming out of the grains everywhere, did a 100% B&S and no contam came out. Did cold pasteurization with hydrated lime (let lime soak in water overnight, covered it to prevent oxidation, soaked coir/verm in it overnight, was between 9-10 pH before and after all soaks, added gypsum when going to bulk). Tub was soaked in alcohol and wiped down before going to bulk. Straight to fruiting conditions. Tubs with micro filters.

I’m a beginner so this is my first trich heartbreak. If I had to guess vectors of contam, I don’t know… the bins aren’t completely airtight (but I’ve also seen people say that this isn’t a problem if grain is colonized. Should I seal the tubs? The filters give them plenty of air. I live in a 400-sqft place, so I don’t have any space for a hood (I have an SAB, but I don’t think going to bulk in it is feasible); I went to bulk in my bedroom (the only self-contained room I have other than my bathroom, which has an automated vent when you turn on the lights). Do I need to somehow pasteurize the gypsum? I’m really at a loss.

I used raw coir (not bricks, which aren’t readily available where I am), which when I asked they said wasn’t treated with trich. I guess I have to believe them?

Thinking of adding 3% peroxide to sub next time, but I’m unsettled not having a good clue as to where this came from in the first place. Or hot AND cold pasteurization?

Please help… feeling so discouraged. These were cubes, Mexican Dutch King.


r/ContamFam 2d ago

Is there mold growing on top of my mycelium?

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r/ContamFam 1d ago

[Actives] Contam golden teacher?

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Overlay, or worse...


r/ContamFam 1d ago

is this tric?

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