MicrobeHunter.com Microscopy Forum

Very impressive!

Wow! Very nice.

Wow very nice!

Welcome to the forum!

Those are awesome!

Hello and welcome!

Very nice!

Very nice

Wow! Nice videos! I just found my first Tardigrade a couple days ago

If you Google "make Irwin loop" you'll see information about how Irwin loops are used, and how they can be made. They allow individual critters to be captured and moved to a clean droplet of water on a slide. Using a stereoscope and a fine transfer pipette, I capture a gastrotrich (or other critter...

I'll add the simplest method. Float a cover slip on the surface of a pond water sample and leave for 8 hours. Place a drop of clean sample water on a slide then carefully lift the cover slip off the surface and place on the slide. The hard bit is lifting the floating cover slip off without contamin...

I was wondering if anyone would share their procedure on how to obtain a clean sample to observe? All the videos and pictures I see online have very few clumps of grit. What are the tools to use and how to use them? Also, calming solutions, how to apply and what to use. Some of the animals move real...

Thank you for the information! All my best samples are from mud or really dirty water. That's where they all hang out So I've been thinking of how to clean samples. I think I'll start another thread and see if people are willing to share their procedures.

Very nice video! How did you get such a clean sample? Almost no soil or sand in the sample. You use a pipette to extract the animal from the original sample?

MichaelG. wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 14, 2020 10:32 am

For a ‘first try’ ... Those are amazingly good images

Nice work !!

MichaelG.

Thank you very much!

mintakax wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:07 am

I know next to nothing about microscopy polarization, but those pics look pretty cool !

Thank you!

Welcome to the forum! Lots of info here.

My first try at polarization. An Amscope made slide of a dyed red Daphnia. PolorizedDaphnia.jpg Second try. PolorizedDaphnia2.jpg Taken with my cell phone and a smartphone camera adapter mount. Two linear polarized filters, one in the filter holder and the other placed right on the top of the slide....

Doesn't most life need to kill to live?

Welcome to the forum! It sounds like a great time with your son!

Welcome to the forum! Lots of very knowledgeable people in this forum. I'm sure someone will help.

Welcome to the forum! I'm a new guy too. Lots of information here!

Hello and welcome! Lots of information here.

I just had one of two microscopes to examine. A SMZ-168 motic and the DRC Zeiss Stemi, not sure the exact number of the models. Both of them are very old. The Motic has 0.75-5.0 variablezoom while Zeiss has two targets, one 0.8 and one 4.0 and one which slide back and forth on a rail. The Zeiss is ...

My working life: 1978-1994, service engineer at Data General and 1994-2015 systems engineer at Örebro University. My occupation nowadays are programming, photography and wood working. I bought a Lumipan LPE from a flea market, a month ago, for around $150, in a wooden box an a complete set of lense...

Dave S wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 02, 2020 1:49 pm

Hi Mark, and welcome.

Thank you, sir!

Hello everyone! My name is Mark. Back in the early 1970's when I was 8 or 10 years old, a neighbor gave me his old Erector sets. The old ones that were all metal, you know, the good Erector sets. In one of the metal boxes that housed the sets was a really old beat up microscope. One of the microscop...