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Hi, Greg,...if you are located con-US I can send you a total Oympus/Tokyo CKa inverted scope ready to use out of the box...for $170 USD +plus shipping.

Either 'PM' me...or ask that I plop pics in this thread. But only if you are con-US, all the best, charlie g/finger lakes/US

Great thread, Nubee..thank you and group. I often wonder what most closely simulates the natural ambient illumination regime of observed living protists and meiofauna. Are not sand particle interstices inhabiting organisms exposed to a totally different insolation reality than the 'blast of microsco...

Happy New Year , Seta and group. Dr. Andrew Chick ( BSc Environmental Biology, MSc Forensic Science, PhD Forensic Entomology) has a low cost book: " Insect Microscopy", chapters on Media for Mounting, Compounds,Chemicals, and Potions, Slide Mounting, Publishing your work, Further information...and m...

Thanks for sharing this fascinating image capture. Is this microscope based at your occupation/ institution site...or do you at a home bench have this optical wonder? Please tell us about the microscopy setup, it's vintage, it's needed upkeep...do you maintain the cell line used..fascinating! Is thi...

Terrific subject, so close to my world experience..where I have lived in NY/USA. But right off..I sense it useless to state: 'each snow flake comprized of 100,000 water droplets'...why in a fascinating treatment of our historic to current understanding of ice crystals, frost, snow flakes...why throw...

Merry Christmas, Joe Henry, and group. Encouragement is the 'coin of the realm' in this microscopy forum ( again, thank you Oliver Kim, for setting this community up and thriving). Remember simple attention to your wet-mount slides..the sandwich of: your microscope slide+ the amount of sample fluid ...

Desmid, and hydra with dl-phase contrast method.

Stephano Barone/ the Diatom Shop offers a terrific 'test slide' to calibrate, to understand performance of your stands optics.

I enjoy the radiolarian fixed slides, and diatom fixed slides from Stephano. Visit his "Diatom Shop". charlie g.

Hi, osterport, and group. Visual observations with Nikon dl phase finite (circa 1980's?) optics: 10X, 20X, 40X, 60X, and 100X-oil objective..are terrific. My crude image-capture/ camera setup never records what visually I enjoy with dl-phase contrast methods. And the variety of Nikon phase condenser...

I tried multiple times to PM, admin(Oliver)...none of my PM's launched. Oh well, Merry Christmas all/ happy Holidays..and let's enjoy a peaceful and healthy 2024


charlie guevara/ finger lakes, US

Hi, all, many non-mobile, or low mobile ( diatoms, amoebae, etc.) are fascinating targets for : 60X, 100X oil-objectives. For those active protozoans..learn to use methylcellulose 1.5%/ half pondwater/half this methylcellulose viscosity tool. We need to learn how to keep the water column/ water film...

Here tonight about 9:30pm-9:45pm..none of my images upload into my own topics, or into a reply to another members thread. charlie g

Hi ADi, and group..here is Stefano Barone/ Italy source I have recieved excellent prepared slides from. I tried to put these images into my post into ADi's "Rocking Radiolarians" thread..I was not able to place images into my post into ADi's thread..is this a new policy to address rude boys like me?...

Beautiful, elegant microscopy...thank you, ADi. Reminds me of 1934 comic evil villain/ nemesis of heroic Flash Gordon. I can see 'merciless Ming's helmet as your radiolarian. Can you give the source for radiolarian 'frustule' ? Can you give the objective used for these beautiful images? I have been ...

Hi again, group, a few days ago I could not download issues of: "Microbehunter Magazine"..I was only allowed to "purchase printed copies of any selected issue"..none of the series permitted me to download the magazine ( as I used to do all the time). I wanted to download magazine issues in which I c...

I suggest, as does Phil/apo, learn to use your oil-100X objective..be selective..do what you enjoy with 20X, 40X, 60X dry...save 100X-oil for last excitement of your designated treat organisms on a wet mount slide. As was suggested already..larger rectangular coverslips permit at least 80% of your w...

Hi again, Fan and forum. First off I apologize for not understanding how to delete one of my exactly the same 'double posts'..how to delete one? I need advice to do this deletion. Yes, yes, Fan..you ask about 'biodiversity of your desired protists' , you ask which more 'biodiverse'..a water heated t...

Hi, Fan,..first off..'think native/ natural assemblages from your Texas outdoors. Thus..please, please, no water-heater!'. A water heater is akin to a bacterial incubator..strive for for natural/native freshwater assemblages. Second...think ten (10) to fifteen (15) gallon tank...this permits a tray ...

Hi, Fan,..first off..'think native/ natural assemblages from your Texas outdoors. Thus..please, please, no water-heater!'. A water heater is akin to a bacterial incubator..strive for for natural/native freshwater assemblages. Second...think ten (10) to fifteen (15) gallon tank...this permits a tray ...

I sense these inclusions nested within this Actinosphaerium amoeboid protozoan are not engulfed food...it would be fun to keep these large protozoans in a well slide..and follow up opn what becomes of these inclusions. The high magnification image suggests these inclusions are endosymbiotic dinoflag...

Please note image capture #184 depicts a hydra with six tentacles, the other image captures are of a five tentacle hydra.

The two meiofauna/worms show very clear gross anatomy...their mouths open and close at times.

Hi all, happy holidays to all. A simple wide mouth plastic jar scoop sample of my outdoor pond/stream mesocosm ( it's been going for years now..red squirrels punctured 2/3rds of the 38 ft length stream component water liner, winter 2022...sighh) on the very first wetmount slide I slurped up from the...

Thanks for an interesting thread, 'nachoben'...and hear, hear thankyou, Bruce, for your postings here, and those PubMed links regarding P. bursaria, and the 'other paramecium with internal symbiotic algae'. I agree with Bruce: 'it is enriching even to get to genus level grasp' of so many of our prot...

Respectfully, Frankiev, there is a segment : 'Off Topic' in this microscopy forum...in wonderful astronomy forum: "Cloudy Nights.com"..there is a similar: 'off topic forum'. You need not announce your 'out of here'/ ' your gone.'...but please consider the wonderful knowledge this thread alludes to.....

Please be patient with yourself, Don, these are exciting times for pondering the theory of mind, the theories of consciousness/ self consciousness. " Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe", George Musse...

Yes, yes, osterport...your 2X microscopy of that insect humbles me with all that gross anatomy/ morphology in the image captures ( hear, hear for Andy Chicks low cost text: " Microscopy of Insects".) . Thank you, OP, for this thread...a Plan 2X objective is so much more then a 'scan the slide for ta...

Hi, scarodactyle,...you assume a seller is oblivious to the market said seller pitches items for sale in? So said seller , when offering items for sale 'locally, and over seas'...this seller can be silent on 'trap door fees beyond sellers control'? This is exactly why I am avoiding purchases from sp...

Hi, micropunter and all, I here in con-US dropped out of a fantastic gift clothing deal for my spouse, son, and others...wow, the company is located Shanghai/abroad..lead me to click on purchase prices...then came surprize step of: 'insurance fee', then came 'shipping cost'..!! I dropped off this fe...

I agree with many fellow posters: nourish your indoor potted plants with these 'imported area treats', or out doors on your grasses or bushes. I strongly disagree with useing your kitchen sink, or toilet...a matter of keeping your silverware and dishes far from collected outdoor samples...and keepin...