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Quality shot! Any idea what the pink stuff inside is?

Oxidizing can produce even worse chemicals. For instance, bleach and ethidium bromide makes much worse chemicals than ethidium bromide. California actually allows 9 ng/L of ethidium bromide in the normal sewer system in some cities. I doubt you produce enough to cause any harm however you dispose o...

I would filter the stain solutions through activated charcoal. It worked for coomassie brilliant blue so it's very likely to work for you too. You can also add a little bleach or potassium permanganate to oxidize the dyes.

Many thanks Tom, Michael and John! Can you give an idea of the scale of the images, or at least the objective powers used? I used a 10x objective, 10x eyepiece and 1.6x optovar magnification, both images were cropped from stacked photos. Later I can take some images of a stage micrometer and calcula...

One can use a polarized light microscope together with a first order (full wave) retardation plate to determine, among many other things, the molecular organization of polymeric organic materials. The specimen Here I decided to apply this idea to isolated xylem fibers (or tracheids, perhaps mrsonchu...

Are they designed for the same tube length? If yes your best chances are using a matched Nikon eyepiece.

I agree with the members above me that this is a spectacular image.

ID aside, this is a very interesting and attractive image. From your yeast fed culture ? Yes, its from the yeast fed culture which I am now feeding with corn and amoeba are plentiful. This particular object I saw only once, usually there are many specimens of each species I find but this object was...

Great specimen, kinda makes me want to go out and collect some pond algae myself Excellent video documentation well!

Are you making a culture out of this sample?

Beautiful image 75'!

Do you first make the stack and then stitch?

That was really cool to watch, thanks for posting!

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Do post some images of your microscope and related stuff! Sounds interesting

Thank you for posting, the single phase shot is by far the best in my opinion. To deal with vibrations I usually set a shutter release timer of a few seconds to provide enough time for residual vibrations to subside. Alternatively I connect the camera to my laptop, when I'm ready to take the shot I ...

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Welcome and a great stack of such an inconspicuous every day item.

They do look similar but oblique only works well with low to medium NA objectives.

...Its a nice microscope with multiple lasers and top of the line planapo objectives. Maybe one day decades from now they will start popping up on ebay and come into the possession of the highest bidder. Those multiple lasers, among other features, make present day confocal an unlikely candidate fo...

I regret not taking a phase contrast image, that might have been nice.

Again a great rotating image, Wes! To make the shape of things understandable these animations are very interesting. Would your new toy be useful to genetare some stunning mitosis pictures? ;) Thanks Bob, I believe it would be the perfect instrument to catch high resolution mitotic scenery. Below i...

What a great experience, I'd be interested to hear more about it ! Thanks mintakax, I had to learn to use the confocal microscope in order to capture and quantify single RNA molecules from in situ hybridization and as far as the microscopy part goes I used readily available fluorescent seedlings as...

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There are specific mitochondrial stains, yet they are very expensive....

Yes, there was mitotracker in the lab but we had the GFP seedlings so it was one step less in the preparation

I got the opportunity to play with a Zeiss LSM880 confocal laser scanning microscope. For this purpose I had to prepare a specimen that was the root of Arabidopsis thaliana seedling. This particular strain of Arabidopsis expresses a green fluorescent protein which contains a mitochondrial targeting ...

In case anyone tries relief PC please share your results here. I tried something but so far it just looked rather bad.

I see three possibilities: food, gametes, parasites. The 5 objects look nothing like the food vacuoles in any of the protists I've seen in this sample, usually they have a thin membrane and are filled with either yeast, algae or bacteria. The structures here are a bit more intricate, there is an out...

Looks like plain old Oblique using Phase objectives to me. You are basically right, its a combination of the two. Speaking of illumination techniques I find relief phase contrast interesting http://zeiss-campus.magnet.fsu.edu/referencelibrary/pdfs/Piper_Micro_and_Analysis_21-9-2007.pdf Haven't yet ...

In this case though I was on an inspection. Seemed quite clean actually, will have to look elsewhere for the culprits. Finding that one speck of dirt which always get on your photos can be a very challenging task. Have you ruled out the eyepiece, relay lens and sensor (you can get an idea by indivi...

I'd be most delighted to get exploding amoeba populations in my cultures (maybe not the brain eating ones but still).

Great video btw! I also see a lot, perhaps too many paramecia. What are the protists in the very beginning? I'd say it looks like Oxytricha but thats more or less a guess.

What is you strategy for cleaning it? Today I am very reluctant to open it but in the past I would spend entire days disassembling, cleaning, reassembling, centering and so on (probably a very bad idea but I guess I learn). Instead I try to maintain low amounts of dust in the room where I keep the m...

May I ask what is your end goal here? Cleaning dust or..?

50x46 µm, found it in a pond water culture. The structure on the left is its nucleus I think but I have no clue what the other 5 round things are (some kind of parasites maybe?)

Interesting and sharp video but I admit I know nothing about gastrotrichs. What are they most related to?