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Thanks mazo for these observation vids. All these hypotritch ciliates can be enjoyed to the point of a specialty niche ..so much complexity in these plentiful and important protists in aquatic assemblages. Hypotrich ciliates are 'heavy lifters' in freshwater and marine recycling of nutrients from ba...

I came to this thread very late...hi all. I sense that when you 'drop duckets' for costly optics...it's good to keep to one brand of stand...to 'mix and match' hinders later selling of a cobbled together stand. One takes many paths with microscopy..if a goal is better resolution and enhanced image c...

Thanks wes for this 'andy warhol treatment of protozoa recyclers ' within the shells of dead meioforma'...often times even active and mobile diatoms clusters about 'dead meioforma bodies'. A good thing to do on open space/outdoor collection hikes...is to have a few small vials to collect dead insect...

Always good microscopy to observe a brown hydra ( ?Hydra oligactis?). Anton von Lee...first documented these brown hydras in Delft, Netherlands...first documented these hydra's 'budding' as a form of animal reproduction. When you have time, please tell us where you collected these unique animals ( M...

Beautiful work, Wes! Thanks for this display of good microtech. charlie guevara BTW, I always wonded if I could collect and save the occasional huge pennate naturally cleared frustules I encounter in wetmounts from time to time...to one day try and mount these frustules. Thanks again Wes for a wonde...

Hi, Don , these images reflect the artwork so rich in my sons "Magic Cards" collections. I see many forest 'tree elfs' scampering amongst the thich and entwined forest tree branches in your late evening images here. what type of seed is the specimen depicted in this post? charlie guevara

Thank you Charles K , for sharing master microscopy imaging classes with us. Your images have been fascinating and enjoyable to me for years. Happy summer'20 to all charlie guevara

Welcome, Mpalmer...of course you will often use oil-immersion high magnifications for spore studies. So 'danke, danke' Roldorf for that excellent mushroom studies resource. Of course you will need a glass micrometer slide and disc optical reticule to place in eyepieces to callibrate all the objectiv...

Welcome, Mpalmer...of course you will often use oil-immersion high magnifications for spore studies. So 'danke, danke' Roldorf for that excellent mushroom studies resource. Of course you will need a glass micrometer slide and disc optical reticule to place in eyepieces to callibrate all the objectiv...

G'day Rossf, your description of the graceful motion of this organism, the fact that they 'seem small in size' for you...well if you can recall their direction of motion...if these small groupings move in the direction of their flagella...please look at images of freshwater Dinobryon sertularia or r...

Welcome bob, and yahoo...we microscopists love new members and new : 'microscopy world views' from all locations on our small planet! As all folk before have said: welcome, welcome...and the sooner you share macroscopic and compound microscope image captures of your ' neck of the woods'..the better ...

Beatiful microtechnique, Ross, thanks for sharing your work. Indeed I see the leg mucle straps, and claw glands in some of the lobopods in your preperation. I have read that each time a waterbear sheds it's cuticle to increase size of it's nearly set number of adult cells, at each moult, that entire...

It is so interesting to me how densely 'stuffed' these waterbears are with body cavity cells/coelomocytes/ hemocytes...and where are these cells when I observed the rather transparent and clear of such inclusions water bears. I hope we all have a good spring'20, thanks for looking at these freshwate...

Hi - I have only found a few water bears so far this year collected from lichen growing on a mountain ash tree in my yard. I have found two species living there and also found the epizoic peritrich ciliates growing on some and show pictures of Pyxidium tardigradum growing on Ramazzottius oberhaeuse...

Charlie, I have seen a fair number of tardigrades with the inclusions you have shown us. The most amazing example was about the time I started using a microscope (as an adult) about 16 years ago. Have a look at this one. It really looked like a plastic bag filled with ice cubes. It moved about norm...

At scan 4X objective of elongated sample droplet...the target specimen ( in this case a water bear)...the target meiofauna specimen shows up...here I use DF at 4X for water bears. A slurp and transfer to slide utilized for observations of target...your 4X objective will verify a successful 'hunt'/ t...

Looking vrs seeing, after I benefitted from "rmb" posts...after I ( duhh) went to my 2004 and 2001 texts...I again sampled the peppermint plant sprigs root-system for a bear hunt ( now spring'20/ Mothers Day all!). At my bench...note the peppermint culture...note a 'long narrow sample' placed on a s...

Thank you, thank you..."rmb" for on 4/19/20...posting and kindly correcting me to the reality that all the dense loose inclussions within this group of water bears I collected from an early spring'20 sprig of outdoor wild-pepermint plant in an artificial stream mesocosm...well these 'densely packed ...

Hi GlennK, I am troubled by your harsh term: 'ethics'....especially regards to microbial systems we share our planet with. Do not tell me ( not my concern)...do you drive a car, do you live in an urban area, do you utilize animals from a local stores: 'meat-case'...please do not reply to these quest...

Thank you, thank, photo micro for fleshing out literally the 1950's organic source of: 'twitching'!!! BTW...often on winter nights when I enjoy our night face skies with telescope...well I recall twitching myself (when I err...change the water outdoors rather than disrupting my night adapted vision ...

Hello all, in a recent forum post a link lead to term: 'desmid twitching', for me this term: 'twitching' had only been used for: 'diatom twitching'! I have not on internet found a definition and source ( ? etimology?) of this tender term: "twitching' regarding collections of a desired target group o...

Again, congrats on your trinocular head Nikon Labophot, Don. charlie guevara, finger lakes, NY, my native fish arrived by UPS/next day service!

Hello Don, happy Earth Day to all of us! I am curious, what is the source of your water samples which you placed in those Rx-bottle containers? I often thought of patiently collecting: 'naturally cleared diatom frustules'...to on some rainy day..set about mounting as fixed/'permanent' slides. Often ...

Hi and welcome, Don, beautiful images. For me, that top images strongly evokes an apple orchard in total destruction from fire, theres the ground fires, the already cindered trees with plump baked apples, and the swirls of smoke with some indication of wind gusts. Thanks for your mycological 'eye ca...

Congradulations 'sailor', my current workhorse stand is a Nikon Labophot-pol with the trinocular head: "F" ( tell us what trinoc head your new prize has on it. My turrent substage condenser is labelled : 1.25 NA, has six turrent stops: 0 with a controllable iris, df, ph1, ph2, ph3, ph4., What phase ...

Hello and welcome 'sailor'. Are you intrested in a quality finite ( 160 mm TL) trinocular head scope circa 1960's...ready to go with it's illumination power supply? Or do you want infinity optics scope? All the best, charlie guevara, NY/ finger lakes.

Water bears do not have relativly large loose cells..freely jiggling within their bodiy cavities...especially within their hear region.

Dear KD Those jiggling things are not parasites or symbiotes. Those are the tardigrades' cells. They float about freely in its insides Hello, rmb, thanks for looking at my water bear thread. IMHO...you have no basis for saying: 'free cells jiggle loosely inside of water bears. I suggest you read fo...

I'm sorry Charlie, but you will never catch a bear like that. Those are traps for a mouse! Hi Bram ( Georgia/US...how is your spring'20 going, Bram?)...ahh those mouse-traps with fluffy window gaskets to attenuate their 'bite'..are for a pair of feral kittens we took indoors at my dear spouses wish...

Thank you, KD arviddson for both the geographic locale image.....before the visit to your ciliates specific realm! Wow but ciliate protozoans are so complex...a foolish notion we had when I was a child, that: 'protozoa are the most primitive and simplest of animals. I really enjoy the 'big picture i...