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
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- Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:41 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: My first find!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2859
- Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:35 pm
- Forum: Introduce yourself
- Topic: intro 2!!!! hello from brazil!!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1083
intro 2!!!! hello from brazil!!
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...
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 4:49 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Suctoria??
- Replies: 0
- Views: 957
Suctoria??
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...
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 4:05 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Stentor ???
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2209
Re: Stentor ???
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
Hope this helps,
~ Tenshi
- Fri Mar 05, 2021 6:50 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Lettuce organism
- Replies: 0
- Views: 856
Lettuce organism
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...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:42 pm
- Forum: Introduce yourself
- Topic: hi
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3854
Re: hi
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...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:55 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Peritrich ciliate colony
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1941
Re: Peritrich ciliate colony
So sorry!! I just added the link!
~ Tenshi
~ Tenshi
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:52 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Peritrich Species Order List?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1647
Re: Peritrich Species Order List?
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...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:33 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: A Flatworm(Rhabdocoela)-Solved
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2778
Re: A Flatworm(Rhabdocoela)
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...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:22 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Peritrich ciliate colony
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1941
Peritrich ciliate colony
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'...
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 10:33 am
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Unidentified flagellate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1717
Re: Unidentified flagellate
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
~ Tenshi
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:22 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Unidentified flagellate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1717
Unidentified flagellate
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...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:25 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Emotional Attatchment To Microbes
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9752
Re: Emotional Attatchment To Microbes
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 ...
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:39 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Instances of Death: New Video
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1956
Re: Instances of Death: New Video
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
Grear video, though :)
~ Tenshi
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:04 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Tiny snail in water sample from river
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2267
Re: Tiny snail in water sample from river
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
~ Tenshi
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 3:28 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Many Questions!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3000
Re: Many Questions!!
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...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:30 am
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Many Questions!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3000
Re: Many Questions!!
Thank you, Bruce and Greg! I'll do my research and try to narrow things down. Thank you all ^_^
~ Tenshi
~ Tenshi
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 5:07 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Many Questions!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3000
Many Questions!!
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...
- Thu Nov 05, 2020 2:03 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Sessile Ciliates...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2123
Re: Sessile Ciliates...
Thank you Bruce! I'll look into them. There were so many and I've never seen them before... interesting!
~ Tenshi
~ Tenshi
- Wed Nov 04, 2020 1:19 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Sessile Ciliates...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2123
Sessile Ciliates...
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 ...
- Sat Oct 31, 2020 12:10 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Paramecia bloom
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2195
Re: Paramecia bloom
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
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
- Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:16 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: How to stop bacteria growth in jar of pond water?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5791
Re: How to stop bacteria growth in jar of pond water?
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...
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:08 am
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Am I being overly sensitive?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5536
Re: Am I being overly sensitive?
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...
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 9:26 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Helminths..still hunting answers the old fashioned way.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3181
Re: Helminths..still hunting answers the old fashioned way.
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...
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 1:38 am
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Weird Stentor-ish Protozoan
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1673
Re: Weird Stentor-ish Protozoan
Thank you so much, Bruce!!Bruce Taylor wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 1:32 amYes, a Stentor. This one has a single macronuclear nodule, and a reddish pigmentation, so possibly Stentor igneus.
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
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:41 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Helminths..still hunting answers the old fashioned way.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3181
Re: Helminths..still hunting answers the old fashioned way.
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...
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:31 am
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Weird Stentor-ish Protozoan
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1673
Weird Stentor-ish Protozoan
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
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
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:09 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Little Green Things and the Ameoba Disaster
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1497
Re: Little Green Things and the Ameoba Disaster
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
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
- Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:30 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Oscillatoria, baby!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1140
Oscillatoria, baby!
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'...
- Sat Oct 24, 2020 3:19 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Finally, Tardigrades!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2611