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Thanks Bruce!

I also use the swift 380T and I have a playlist of footage here...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... AZjrP0dtp0

The quality varies as I have gotten a little better at getting footage.

There is some blue color visible in dark field that I could not see in bright, so maybe it is coeruleus? 10x objective dark field...

Stentors are so cool! Anyone know what species this might be?
I can post more pics if needed. I think this was with a 20x objective.

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Thanks all! I also did record the brownian motion. I hope I will get around to publishing the video soon.

Focus stack of 5 images. I think this was with a 20x objective.

Thanks! I collected the sample from silver lake near Philadelphia, pa. I had the sample for about a week before I made the video. I used a normal slide with thick algae and plant matter to keep them from getting squished. There are views from 4x, 10x, 20x, and 40x objectives. Most are indicated in t...

Thanks for mentioning that Bruce. I found a green Hydra a few days ago with some of these attached and I wondered what the heck they were. Seems that can also be parasitic

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

yeah, that's pretty cool!

I could see that it had 3 "fins" when I was observing it. I will put some video up when I get chance.

Yours looks quite a bit different actually. Might be of the same genus though.

Something from the Acroperus genus?

Did I get this ID correct?

Next to Rotifers, I think Hypotrich might be the most common critters I have been seeing in my samples. I love to watch them "walk" on surfaces.

Curious if anyone else has encountered so many in one sample.

On the YT channel "Journey to the Microcosmos" they mention taking a collapsible selfie stick and attaching a small container to the end. Also, similar to the bucket and rope suggestion, they will sometimes use a plankton net with a fine mesh.

It's mostly the Stylet ... part of the mouth

They are usually kind of oval shaped and usually found inside the shed skin of it's momma.

Thanks! Love these little guys.

Thanks!

Nice! Yeah, I chose to keep my condenser wide open so I could see them interacting with the rotifers.

It rained recently so I pulled a sample of water from a very small bird bath we have in the front yard. That was what I found...

I figured I just got the same set in the mail about 10 minutes ago! I was hoping you might remember which one so that I wouldn't have to go through all 32 of them, ha ha!

oh yeah, those egg pods looked even cooler in dark field, but it moved too much to get multiple images for focus stacking when I was doing dark field