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I did a quick slide swipe of the turtle shell this afternoon, carapace swipe, a low resolution photo at 400x. Not sure what this is.

Rodney

The meal in that picture Eddie was pizza crust, but they do like any type of bread it seems. It took a few years for some of them to be more comfortable around us. They also like dry pet food, in particular dry cat food, so do the fish. The real pet is the turtle eating, that one will follow you aro...

I did take a microscope slide swap a couple years back. This reveals a very interesting world and easy to obtain from the carapace. I will try one from the carapace and one from the plastron possibly later today. It doesn`t take long for the slide to dry up and the micro organisms restricted in move...

Camera shot of our local pond turtles today wanting a hand out. Good example of not to feed them unless you want to. We have at least 8 that will follow us on the pond dam wanting a hand out. All of them seem to be in excellent condition without being fed.

Rodney

This is really a nice forum with very good images and information from a lot of people. Up the road from me about 50 miles is the watermellon capitol of the world they say, Cordele Georgia.

Rodney

I like it.

Rodney

I will try to obtain a fresh adult sample Eddie, we do have them in my area, may take a certain amount of time. They can be quick but a night light and net can work.

Rodney

Thanks gekko. Illumination was from a 10 or 12 watt bulb at the base of the microscope. The red effect is from a red glass filter I place in line with the microscope condenser to give a more subtle effect for my old eyes, top illumination was done with a white LED light aprox. 45 degree angle onto t...

Thanks, looks like I have a good many young ones swimming around close to the surface of our pond. I netted one that was 2.5 inches in body length a few years back. The adults carry the eggs underneath the abdomen until they hatch. And I think it is the male that carries the eggs???. Pond life is ou...

I think this is what they call the giant water beetle. This specimen is very small and young. Single 69kb picture taken at 60x. The sting can be very painful, and you can see what they use.

Rodney

This is the way I catch them. Pour one ounce of grape wine with alcohol that is, and pour into open container and wait. I`m sure other wines will work. If you have fruit flies around they will find the wine. They will drink the wine and get drunk, I then pick them up with a tooth pick or something a...

Thanks for the extra information John. The fruit fly head was removed. Picture taken at 100x low camera resolution. This is not a very good picture but you may be able to make out the compound eye structures. Also the other eye has collapsed.

Rodney

Ok I will try to capture a decent picture of the fruit fly eye and head area. The specimen on the slide has dried up and the general points of my interest seem to have collapsed for the compound eye structures, I should be able to obtain a fresh one soon. I may be able to hydrate this eye section fo...

I was just looking at the compound eye structure of a fruit fly I have on the slide. This is a very small fly that seems to be more prevalent in my area this year, I may try to capture a few pictures through the microscope of the general head area. For now the eye structure looks real good, anyone t...

With the short objectives on this scope, works just fine. I mostly use it for scanning under the stereo scope. Size is .75 inches by 2.5.

Rodney

I sometimes use this thick glass low profile candle holder for a small aquarium. The weight of it keeps it in place for manipulation of pond life etc. while viewing. Fits very easy under my stereo scope and works with my compound microscopes fitted with low powered short objectives.

Rodney

20x I typed in one extra 0 by mistake. I was able to rebuild one 43x objective that was hazed up inside from what I guess got ran into a dish of pond water, just a guess. Anyway this was an older simple 3 lens unit, but took days to get it aligned back right and to make sure all the elements were cl...

I have a special holder I use for a single objective that is held in place with a swing in or out lab stand arm mounted underneath my stereo scope to look into problem objectives. This gives me a good idea of what the general condition of the objective is; scratched up, just dirty, delamination, or ...

Very nice images gekko I like them. I have always been interested in fresh water biology esp. more so in my retirement years. These groups do represent a very large system and which a good many can be parasitic. The size of these groups can be all over the place but generally you can view a good man...

I have an interest for small insect specimens, esp. the aquatic forms of early development from water to land and really all forms. The microscopic forms seem really interesting to me and I was wondering if anyone had a few photos to share of early development.

Rodney

This is the worm I have in my photo`s. Actually this one is a larva stage of an aquatic insect I think, I had the species wrote down at one time. The resolution is very poor since I took the photo off of my computer screen.

Rodney

Very nice drawing; I have one species in my computer photo gallery that came out of my pond. All of my photo`s are way over sized so I will have to down size all of them to post any pictures. I agree good art work.

Rodney

Very nice clean images, what type of camera are you using?

Rodney

Looks like a species of garden spider we have in Georgia. Nice clear picture. I notice the picture file size is limited to 500kb for this forum, 95 percent of my photo`s are larger than this and are in the 1 mb are larger size so they get kicked out. I have a nice spider photo somewhere but the size...

I live in Georgia USA Jim. No I don`t have a clue of the value but glad all of you liked it. Some of my better pictures were taken with this microscope. I hope to send out some pictures of a few specimen pictures taken with this microscope. I did have an midge fly head on a slide???

Rodney Brightwell

Thanks, Will do Gekko, i`m down in Georgia. I hope to get another round of those going soon.

Rodney Brightwell

My oldest working microscope of several others is this 1898 Bausch and Lomb monocular. I use this microscope a lot because it continues to provide good results. It was all froze up and filthy when I purchased it but I only gave 27 bucks for it.

Rodney Brightwell

Hello from Southern Georgia U.S.A., As a hobby I love all forms of biology, science and microscopy. I use several older microscopes and really enjoy them. My interest are rather broad which can make for a very interesting evening. I also like looking at trace micro-fossils with my stereo scope which...