Purple slime? Cyno?

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This purple slime showed up maybe a couple of days ago. Cyno? You’ll see in the other pic I took with my magnifier. There were some funny hair like things coming out of it. Any ideas?

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Yes it looks like it will be simple to pick up the whole piece. I just wasn’t sure what I was looking at.
 

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