Comments on: What is that red line inside my toilet? https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/04/what-is-that-red-line-inside-my-toilet/ Mon, 29 Oct 2018 23:47:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Theo https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/04/what-is-that-red-line-inside-my-toilet/#comment-659115 Mon, 29 Oct 2018 23:47:29 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30553#comment-659115 Hübsch!

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Lass es mich wissen, bitte.

]]> By: Bernard J. https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/04/what-is-that-red-line-inside-my-toilet/#comment-644478 Fri, 05 Oct 2018 03:54:02 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30553#comment-644478 Back in the day when I ran microbiology labs we used Serratia marcescens to inoculate cockroaches for an experiment to demonstrate Koch’s postulates. It’s a very effective lethal pathogen of the beasties…

I don’t see it on my loo though, because mine is a composting one. As someone who lives in a rural area and likes to grow my own food, it baffles me that our society so readily flushes away a product that is so full of plant nutrients. As long as they’re not medicated I happily ask people to poop in my toilet…

]]> By: Athaic https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/04/what-is-that-red-line-inside-my-toilet/#comment-644176 Thu, 04 Oct 2018 18:06:20 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30553#comment-644176 Yep. Good old Serratia.
Microbiologist here. Have some in the lab. More or less on purpose (on the plus side, when your Petri dish is contaminated with Serratia, you got a big red clue). Another strain was actually pigment-less, for a while.

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