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[gfish]

Small lesson learned today:

If you order a case of petri dishes from a large biotech company, to be shipped to a residential address, and you give them an odd-looking spam alias for your email address, they're going to act all weird about it.

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[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have about ten dozen in sealed packages if they really get difficult to obtain. I'm not using them...
(by the way, it doesn't work to grow bugs on jello: they liquefy it almost immediately.)

[gfish.livejournal.com]

That's why they use agar instead of gellatin. The structure it forms doesn't get eaten. At least around here, getting agar flakes is pretty easy. I'd be glad to mail you some if you can't find them locally.

And finding disposable petri dishes was really easy. It was finding a place selling autoclavable ones for less than $5/each that was a bit tricky. I'm still going to keep my eye on ebay for a nice batch of pyrex ones.