Bacterial pellet is a bit orange /pink and little slimy after phage amplification, why?

01 January 1970 0 2K Report

Hi i am doing phage display and in the amplification stepr growing bacteria dubbelinfected with M13 mibrary and VCSM13 helper phage in 200 ml SB media (10g mops 20g yeast extract 30g tryptone / liter) is behaving strange. it has a orange/ pink color (see picture )and the pellet does not stick well to the wall of the centrifuge bottle (see picture) has anyone experienced this before? what is the reason and is it still fine?

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