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Nice images. I am going to go for Haematococcus on the ID of the "orange balls" See link http://www.microbehunter.com/microscopy-forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3269&p Thanks a ton for the identification! Whenever I post a photo on here not knowing what it is someone always knows. So, new discovery for m...

Nice darkfield. Hello! Actually, these aren't darkfield. I used an LED light that I bought from Ikea and illuminated them from above. It actually works quite well, although I could use a much brighter LED light. One of the nice things about this techniques is the rotifers behaved normally when lit ...

Hello! I haven't posted in awhile so I thought I'd share a couple photos I took recently. One is of a large rotifer I found in my partially frozen birdbath. There are actually a huge number of these guys in the sample I took and they are quite large -- About 500 microns or so long. You can see them ...

Bill -- I love your videos. Don't ever stop making them again. :D You cannot quit microscopy. Your videos are epic! Give in to the force of the dreaded microscopy bug. Resistance is futile. :mrgreen: I'm glad to hear that someone out there enjoys my little videos. I don't know how long this recent ...

Bill -- I love your videos. Don't ever stop making them again.

Microbia wrote:Very nice pictures

Thanks! I'm quite happy you like them; once in awhile I get lucky.

charlie g wrote:Congrats , Pat , on your first encounter with a native Paramecium...I sense due the heavy contrast in your excellent image of this protozoan...I oddly want to pet it, and scratch it's ventral surface!

Charlie guevara

With all his cilia I would expect him to be quite floofy.

Another amazing video! It was interesting that the rotifer didn't seem to try to get away; I wonder if had died before the Dileptus discovered it. Or, does that protist have poison? Even then, I would expect some kind of reaction from the rotifer. Very interesting -- Thanks for posting! Edit: They d...

I have a pair of advance tickets for the Beatles reunion concert, at the Pearly Gates Festival. It's in the garden, located to the right, just after you enter the pearly gates( don't go to the left, where you see the smoke rising above the dead trees ...that's for Gene Simmons, he will be on tour f...

Hello everyone, My name is Bruce and I work for Anacapa Equipment Brokers, based in Santa Barbara, CA, USA. I will be posting the ad in your Suppliers, buying and selling forum, but thought I would include this here as well. The company that I work for has acquired a monster of a microscope, a Bruk...

Very nice! :) The first one is probably Tetmemena pustulata . In 1997, Stylonychia pustulata and S. vorax were moved to a new genus...first named Clara , later changed to Tetmemena Eigner, 1997. Stylonychia putrina hasn't been formally moved, but is typically narrower than your critter (width ~1/3 ...

billbillt wrote:Hi Pat,

You have a gift of producing wonderful subjects and photos of them!.. Keep it up!..

BillT

Thanks Bill -- I'm quite happy you like them. I'm still very much on the learning curve, though. I hope to keep improving. There are many people here who are very inspirational for me.

Both very nice and nice of them to pose. Hard to get them to sit still long enough. What shutter speed? Thanks! To get these guys to slow down I cheated and used Protoslo; that helped a lot. Otherwise it would have been impossible to get good photos of these guys; they are very quick movers. I don'...

Greetings all! Here are a couple new photos I took last night. The first photo is of one of my favorite protists; a stylonchia. I like them because of how they scamper about the microscopic world like a tiny one-celled cockroach. I've always found them very fun to watch. For the stylonchia I photogr...

You know, what is really awesome about living in the time we are is this sort of thing is actually possible. Back when I was a kid there wasn't this thing called the Internet, and so of course there was no Ebay on which you can buy nearly anything. Even if my parents had wanted to buy me an SEM ther...

That is really quite awesome -- That kid has some amazing parents. I would love an SEM, but I certainly don't have the technical smarts to make it happen. I could make room for one though... Hear you go: http://www.ebay.com/itm/KEVEX-SIGMA-GOLD-ISI-ABT-55-scanning-electron-microscope-LOT-1139/14209...

That is really quite awesome -- That kid has some amazing parents. I would love an SEM, but I certainly don't have the technical smarts to make it happen. I could make room for one though...

This would be fun to try but my condenser doesn't have a filter holder. So, I'm not sure how I'd implement something like this.

I just got my copy today -- It looks really good. I'll be paging through it tonight.

I completely agree with Bill -- This is really an amazing video. You are capturing the natural history of these animals very well. Thanks for posting it!

This is truly amazing -- I had no idea they did that. Thanks for posting this!

What an amazing video! I just read that the Coleps has toxicysts that it uses to immobilize its prey; I wonder if these had any effect on the Lacrymaria (it takes several minutes for the poison to work). Really a very fascinating video -- A person can learn quite a bit from the posts in these forums!

I just bought one too -- It cost me just a bit over $10.00 for the third edition hard cover. Not too shabby!

Today I realize these forums are forcing me to buy stuff off Amazon! Stop it! All of you!

wporter wrote:I like the softcover Free-Living Freshwater Protozoa, A Colour Guide, by Patterson.

Sorry to jump in here but I must complain about this post! By reading it you forced me to buy that book off Amazon! Thanks a lot!

Some people around here...

rabitt wrote:Also check out my posting "You need to purchase this book" under Resources. Lots of info on processing and fixing the various critters.

Rich B

Thanks much! In addition to a couple microscope I also apparently need a library!

Culicoides wrote:Pat, try Insect Microscopy by Andrew Chick, from Amazon, UK price around 17gbp. This will give you all the information you need for your spider mites and other Arthropoda.
Good luck!
John

Thanks -- I just ordered the book and it should arrive on the 13th. Free shipping rox!

Thanks a ton for the info -- That really helps. Now, because these mites are so small I wonder how to work with them effectively; perhaps do all of what you said in your post under the stereoscope? I did save some of them in a jar before I sprayed the plants with mite killer -- It really worked. So ...

I discovered I have spider mites on my palm (plant that is, not my hand)! :o This is both a bad and good thing. Bad, because... Spider mites. But good, because... Microscope! I have a question, and I apologize that it involves a rather complex response. But I would certainly appreciate anyone willin...

Very cool, John! I do hope they get along; siblings often have rivalries and will compete for your attention.

Keep them coming. I enjoy the videos. Thanks -- I'm quite happy you like them. I know I have a ways to go as I'm still a rank beginner at Adobe Premier. Eventually I hope to make better and more professional looking videos. Some of the ones I've seen posted here have been simply amazing. So, I do h...