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Ok cool thanks. Actually I had the thought that the cubic thing may have come from the agar plate. I bought them from a lab but salt or some other chemical would be plausible. They had an antibiotic in them too actually. Cheers for the input.

Thanks guys, helps a lot. I decided not to pitch the yeast. At the end of the day I'd rather not risk it and it helps to begin to recognize different things under the scope. Since we have such fine folk in the forum: In another starter I found several of these weird pyramid shaped things. Any...

Thanks for the replies. I was hoping to count cell viability afterwards but it looked so suspicious I decided not to bother. I never considered that they might be harmless bacteria to beer flavour but I'd rather not see anything in there but yeast. Definitely glad to get a microbiologist's...

Hey guys, I was building up a culture of WLP001 from a plate and it looks rather funky. Can anybody identify the long ones that are chained together? I decided not to pitch this in anything as it looked pretty nasty under the scope. In the second picture there is a little ball of stringy...

I too have this problem even after I bought the Ultra Barrier Silver™ Antimicrobial and PVC Free Beer Tubing from morebeer as mentioned above, perhaps there is another factor. I wonder if there is something with the taps or the way in which the tubing is cooled. My tube is basically...