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@charlie g - I sent you a private message, re: this thread. If for some reason it didn’t go through, let me know. It’s just so long, I didn’t want to post it on here. Thanks! Cheers, jackieone, I replied to your PM..please post in forum your microscopy objectives to have forum folk advise you. Foru...

Will get back to you with PM, jackieone. Your con-US, so if I can send you a scope pkg., it's sensible shipping cost. charlie g/ finger lakes NY

Hi, jackieone...as apochronaut knows from when I mailed him a vintage: "Ortho-Illuminator'"..the silent gorilla in the room is: shipping costs. Are you located con-US, jackieone? all the best, charlie guevara who when at St.Lawrence river cottage..well I can just about shoot a fireworks rocket up ov...

Hi, einman and all...quite a few years ago I paid $200 for a Nikon plan 1X/ 160 tl, I paid $200 for a Nikon plan 2X/160 tl. The 2x I use often, the 1X sleeps in it's plastic vial in a cigar box.

charlie g

With a lot of: 'jumping through hoops'..I was able to get telephone contact with the ' eBay suits'..here in con-US. I wonder if OP could have used eBay phone contact to assist with getting account running again..it really is a tedious process to get eBay contact by telephone..but it works in con-US....

On my second scoop water sample from the stream mesocosm ( after 1/27-1/28/24 abrupt ice thaw in our region), I noted a rotifer rapidly circling a small gas bubble...this rapid circling of the gas buuble..with the rotifers corona always touching the gas bubble...went on for ten minutes. I fed huge g...

Many of these gold/orange colored dinoflagellates encountered with each wet mount slide I freshly pipet up from the now partially thawed ( much open waters) stream section of my mesocosm. The wetmount slide also contained two water bears plodding along shafts of algae. Most wonderful for me, a first...

Hi, jackieone, are you located con-US? I have excellent 160mm/finite SteindorfBerlin with trinocular head, with illumination setup. very low cost+ shipping. Other scope setups too , Olympus/Tokyo CKa inverted microscope with illumination setup...$120+shipping, other scopes too. I also can supply mic...

Hi, frankiev, if your observation portal is the cover glass 'floor'..no need to utilize hard to work with glass slides. Choose an easier material to cut apertures in, for your coverslip observation 'floor'. Consider using the larger rectangular cover slips ( do not limit your slides to: 12mmx12mm co...

Yup, dennis, this breed is a 'winter dog'...in 'dog days of summer'..this breed is an: 'air-conditioner dog'.

We hail from Bergen county/Ridgewood, NJ...I hope your NJ winter has been going okay.

Right you are, polymerase, the dignity and adherence to 'scientific method of seeking reality outside ourselves'...is the way to go deeper into experiencing objective reality. My 'caution' is my sense that we are quite approaching a paradigm shift...and troubles arise when we educated westerners can...

Hi, squint a lot, thanks for looking. Any microscopist can collect area ( native assemblages) from their locals open spaces...and enjoy a vibrant microcosm..no need for a mesocosm as I fabricated. I enjoy native fish , and i foolishly attempt to in my stream segment...establish freshwater mussels na...

Ahh, this crazy weather/ changing 'new normal' weather...by 1/26/24..all snow on ground melted..ice in the stream-pond meso cosum mostly melted. This worries me.

The area streams were all swollen with melt water..my good doggie sensibly did not enter the rapid angry stream flow.

Water bear graced my first wet mount slide, quite a microscopy observational treat.

With such a narrow ( 'skinny') body form..I wonder how these peritrichs have room for daily heterozoic engulfment of foods..withthe dense cluster of algae within the protists body volume.

Peritrich protozoa enjoy their algae thick matts. Some actually have endosymbiotic algae.

Paramecium bursaria was quite irritated that I slurped it up and onto a wetmount slide.

Collotheca sp. of rotifer, in secreted gelatinous tube , a free living 'sessile rotifer' in our freshwaters. The long spines are moved to entrap small metazoan prey..push prey into that huge funnel mouth openning..that funnel mouth snaps shut.

This rotifer has a poorly ciliated corona.

Dinoflagellate wonderfully pigmented, and quite active..I chased this active winter protozoan for delightful and challenging image captures. Fresh water dinoflagellates are poorly studied in north america. images: 012, 025

Hi all, in finger lakes/US we had a brief one week of below freezing temps. Good doggie and I had only to climb the hill to our : pond/stream mesocosm. Doggie not permited into this mesocosm as she might foolishly plunge onto the ice of the pond segment ( pond 1/3rd 10 ft. depth, remainder 5 ft dept...

Hi all, say polymerase, just this 1998 physics/ astronomy/ cosmology community embraced..yet with worries ( what are we to do in a paradigm shift?) embraced the stark 'reality' that we only understand 1/3rd of our universe, 2/3rds are : dark energy..we to 1/24 still do not know what 'dark energy is'...

Wonderful microscopy sharing, bruce, thank you. A few years ago I found a few institutions with optical microscopy labs, and SEM microscopy labs , both which for a set of costs, permit non-academics to use their equipment with a lab facilitator/ mentor. Does your facility offer such pay for use of s...

Thanks again, francisco, for sharing this protist image capture. Thanks too bruce (many thanks for numerous thoughts you post into threads)..I see your cited examples of colonized amoebae tests/ shells are all instances of endosymbionts harboring 'inside amoebae tests'..not epibionts attached to the...

Congrats, Josephus on giving your daughter a microscope. In her higher education ( should she take biology courses) , the school will supply the microscopes, and equipment and needed specimens. If you would like to complement your microscope with a vintage 'Greenough' style stereo microscope...I can...

Thank you francisco for sharing this testate amoeba encounter. I wonder about how heavily colonized your amoebas test seems to be...almost 'covered with fir'. Did you sense any interior cell activity, any contractile vacuoles enlarging/ then rapidly 'shrinking', any indications this testate amoeba w...

Hi again, greg. I'll plop some pics in this thread. A finite inverted microscope: "Olympus Tokyo Cka", ready to use...out of the box, $170+ shipping. I'm central NY. charlie g

Hi again, greg, are you located: con-US? charlie g

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...