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Thank you for your kind comments! woyjwjl: DIC 10, 20 40 and 100X (see the end of the video). Microplan: As indicated at the end of the video, I use an Olympus BX50 microscope. This was the Olympus research model in the 1990s. It has DIC with fluorite objectives, and a Sony alpha 6300 camera coupled...

Excellent definition of bristles!

In the first video the specimen at 30 seconds is a rotifer of the genus Polyarthra

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Excellent!

In this video the main organs of the Cladocera Alona rectangula are identified. You can also see the birth of an embryo.

Thanks Javier!

It is very likely that it is Netrium digitus
Although their chloroplasts are highly degraded and there is no information on their size

Putting labels is definitely an extra work (although I love video editing). However, it forces you to study the specimen in detail and search for information. For me, the beauty of the images is important, but it is more important to know what I am seeing.
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Thank you very much for your comments!

Excellent!

With rotifers of this size, I usually place a drop of petroleum jelly on each corner of the coverslip. I do this to allow them to move and to prevent them from being crushed by capillary forces between the slide and coverslip. The rotifer simply found enough space to sit on the slide and show me its...

Thanks Louise!

Thanks Phill and Tlansing!

Tlansing: You can find all that information at the end of the video, and a photograph of the sample collection site.

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A small and unusual desmid

Excellent as usual

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A small Micrasterias

Excellent video!

Excellent!!

Probably Desmidium grevillei

Thanks!
You can find all that information at the end of the video

Thanks Tlansing, Francisco, Jochen and Einman.

Smollerthings: Normally I just correct contrast and exposure, the rest is done by the DIC system.

75RR: I live in humid Spain, in a region where acidic springs abound. Yes, these small puddles can be considered incipient peat bogs