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hi malcolm!

great pics and nice find!! looks like some an arthropod, maybe a mite? i cant help you much besides that, but i hope you identify your friend there!

~ tenshi

hi everyone!! my name's tenshi! im a 17 (almost 18 lol) year old high school student from brazil!! ive always loved biology but i think ill keep it as a hobby for now bc my real deal is fashion design!! but ill always love science and microbes and funky lifeforms so i decided to dust off my microsco...

Hello all! I've found these strange protrusions in a little piece of surface detritus... they look like suctorian spikes, but no suctorians to be seen? They moved slightly, which is rather unusual for a suctorian. Any help or direction is greatly appreciated!! https://youtu.be/MbIV2Exowgk?t=13 ~ Ten...

Amazing videos! I've seen these little guys before, but I was unable to identify them Internet pics don't help a lot either, but my guess would be S. roeselii. Take this with a pinch of salt, as I couldn't see the boys' macronucleus and I'm a little rusty at this <:)

Hope this helps,
~ Tenshi

Hey y'all! After a long while away from the microscope, I am back in action! I was looking through a freshwater sample and found this strange little man. At first I thought he was a very deformed Paramecium caudatum, but he's too flat. My next guess would be a worm, but he does not move like one. My...

Hello! Glad to have you here :) I don't think we have any goals in common when it comes to microscopy but I think what you do and plan on doing is really cool! Exotic animals are really nice and I hope yours are doing good :D If you'd like, feel free to post pics of them in Off Topic. I'd love to se...

So sorry!! I just added the link!

~ Tenshi

A list of all peritrich species would be hard to find, though you could always skim through Wikipedia for information. Here's what I found: Subclass Peritrichia . Order Sessilida ... Family Ellobiophryidae ... family Epistylididae ... Family Lagenophryidae ... Family Operculariidae ... Family Rovinj...

Super uneducated guess here, as I am in no way a flatworm expert, but maybe Microstomum sp.? This worm looks a lot like Microstomum caudatum, but I couldn't find any videos of it moving, as it seems to do so very peculiarly and would certainly help in identification. I hope this sets you on the righ...

Hello everyone! Yesterday I went to a little pond and collected some water, detritus and Biomphalaria sp. + Physa sp. snails (both perfectly legal to keep in my country). On the back of one of the Physa snails, I found a huge colony of some sort of peritrich ciliate. Maybe Vorticella sp., but I can'...

Thank you, 75RR and Bruce Taylor! I'll try to find more of those flagellates and hopefully I'll be able to identify them!

~ Tenshi

Hello everyone! I was looking through this freshwater sample and found my first flagellate!! This is really exciting for me, as I've always wanted to see them, but I have no idea how to identify it. Luckily I recorded plenty of footage so if any flagellate connoisseurs could pitch in and tell me wha...

Hi all! I hadn't been keeping up with the thread, I thought it'd died. Anyway, thank you PeteM and DonSchaeffer for the kind responses, as well as everyone who suggested ways I could squeeze my friends back in the culture. Unfortunately, I've recently had to destroy most of my cultures as they were ...

Poor little guys :( it always makes me so sad to see them die... you can tell they're fighting to stay, but you know they won't make it.

Grear video, though :)

~ Tenshi

Interesting picture! Looks like a baby apple snail. If you have a brighter picture, I'd like to see it. They come in many colors but as far as I'm concerned, they're mostly the same species (Pomacea bridgesii). You might also find them as mystery snail or inca snail. Hope this helps!

~ Tenshi

VIDEO 2 maybe copepod??) Yes, I think so ! By coincidence I was investigating a similar find and was about to post in the Microbe aquarium topic about it !! I think we can narrow it down to one of the harpacticoida, But further than that, to genus level, is beyond my pay-grade and beyond my ability...

Thank you, Bruce and Greg! I'll do my research and try to narrow things down. Thank you all ^_^

~ Tenshi

Hello!! Started journaling my finds in a diary yesterday and I wanted to keep track of everything I find... Can anyone tell me what I'm seeing in the following videos? :O VIDEO 1 (unknown damaged ciliate): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_scfYCc-_c VIDEO 2 (unknown crustacean - maybe copepod??) htt...

Thank you Bruce! I'll look into them. There were so many and I've never seen them before... interesting!

~ Tenshi

Hello everyone! I finally got ahead of schoolwork and had some time to look at my cultures! Unfortunately most of them are just full of bacteria as I haven't been feeding them too much, but I did find something interesting! As you can see in the video linked below, I found these... mushroom looking ...

Hi Greg!

For your soup, I'd suggest throwing in oxygen-rich foods such as broccolis and spinach to keep bacterial growth at a reasonable level.

I'd never heard of anyone putting egg shells in their cultures... would love to see some pictures of the friends you find!

~ Tenshi

I don't know what exactly causes or helps with bacteria growth, but I do know that since bacteria multiply much faster than protists, what usually happens is that they deplete the oxygen in your cultures. It's good to have bacteria, as they will serve as food for your protist friends, but if you let...

Hi there! I've had this problem before, but not with insects... when it comes to microbes, they're tiny, so they don't really care and I usually just put them back in the culture so to them it was just a really weird earthquake or something. Insects and insect larvae are a problem though. They're bi...

Hi! Sorry about the vague questions in my last response, I didn't know what helminths were ^_^; However, I did come across this term, Acanthocephala, which are a phylum of worms called thorny headed worms. The "thorns" are hardly visible through the naked eye or even a camera such as the one you use...

Bruce Taylor wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 28, 2020 1:32 am

Yes, a Stentor. This one has a single macronuclear nodule, and a reddish pigmentation, so possibly Stentor igneus.

Thank you so much, Bruce!!

I've wanted to see a Stentor for so long, the last time I saw them they all died

I'll be sure to take good care of them this time!!

~ Tenshi

HI there! I'm still fairly new to the hobby so don't expect any precise answers from me but, can you give me a little more context? Things like, where did you find this, was it moving, how it moved, what it resembled (and you can be vague here. Saying it looks like a larva already narrows things dow...

Hello!!

I know I'm blowing this forum up BUT this time it's important, as I've found a very strange protozoan and I don't know what it is!! I've linked the video below, hopefully someone will be able to figure this one out...

https://youtu.be/lqnv_a0a1ms

~ Tenshi

Hi Don!

Great video as always! Don't have much experience with amoebas, but the green things look like diatoms. I can't be sure as I'm just starting out, but they move like such!

Hope this heps,

~ Tenshi

Hello!! Went to the park today to collect some samples and found the weird friend linked below. Was frantically writing in Identification Help cause I had no clue what it was until my dad came in and told me it was probably an Oscillatoria. So I'm posting it here cause it's very cool and I think it'...

Rapidray wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 24, 2020 3:16 pm

Well, disregard that last post...found one today! And two that died together

That's awesome!! Tardigrades are super cute, glad you could tick that off your list ^_^

~ Tenshi