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Hi, harry, thanks for visiting this thread. I always wondered about bitter cold Manitoba/Canada stream flows in harshest of winters...sure enough your Winnipeg/ Manitoba weather and news station stated from 12/23- to 2/24 Manitobans experienced near record warm 'winter weather'..of course with temp ...

Here ( image #024 ) is the eight (8) tentacle green hydra. Sure enough ( I always control water depth/ water film thickness under a wetmount slide cover slip..to not 'crush' meiofauna)...sure enough , this hydra is exploring and leaving the water film under the coverslip. For me I fancy this a chanc...

Hi all, this early 3/24..only one day of snow, below 30 degree-F temps..with strong 50- 60 MPH winds. I scooped sampled an area of my stream segment of the mesocosm. On the first wetmount slide prep I developed with pastuer pipet slups from the scoop sample jar...two (2!) Chlorohydra viridissima...t...

Elegant images, thanks for posting. charlie g

Thanks, microplan for this microscopy of a freshwater (sweet water!) female cyclops copepod. At 51 seconds into your microscopy..and onto 1min and 15 seconds..we see numerous single red pigmented eyes in the developing embryos mother carried in her ovisacs, before she was crushed to death, and her o...

Hi, nebulous, are you located: con-US? If so , I can offer a ready to go finite optics/ 160 tube length plan achro trinocular microscope with it's power source ( illuminator built into base of this circa 1970's "Steindorf/Berlin trinoc scope). Total package $500 USD+shipping costs, only possible if ...

Thanks again, topcode. charlie g

Thanks for the setup details and images, topcode. Only if the fancy strikes you, 'metachronal beat' of rotifer coronal cilia 'wheels' would be sweet with your high framerate application, so too would the waves of coordinated bands of cilia on many protozoa. Regarding the spiraling /undulating large ...

Thanks, topcode, can you show a few images of your setup? What sort of water sample, from what source did you collect these protists? What illumination permits: " 1400+ high framerates" ?

Again, thanks for this microscopy. charlie g

Under the 'winter ice' of this scoop collected sample...the wet mount slide first constructed ( strategic pipet slurps from...within surface algae matt, collection containers bottom sediments, scrape&slurp with the pipet along container wall) contained a charming menagerie of quite irritated protist...

Hi all..about 2/22/24 temps plunged to 'normal winter' cold of: 19 degrees F. . Prior weeks were 40's-50's F....very troubling 'new normal weather' here in fingerlakes/NY.. I collected a scope sample from under the ice. For me the excitement was my first encounter with peritrich ciliate epibionts at...

Thanks, apo, for suggesting hands on practical treatments of a basically sound stands light-path optics. You encourage all of us to try and correct issues in our optics...when " we" can. My last wonderful workhorse stand, an Reichert/Austria Biozet trinocular stand was my workhorse microscope for de...

Thank you for posting this fascinating encounter, francisco, charlie g

Hi, harry, I came late to this thread. You already made your purchase, congrats and hope it 'works for you'. My suggestion is (for pond life live wet mount slide microscopy) that your are the active collector of initial water sample collection sites..you sample specific microhabitats collected to di...

Welcome to a terrific community forum ( thanks again, Oliver), eric. Hope to enjoy posts of your microscopy. charlie g/fingerlakes,US

Hi, again, don, thanks for your forum postings. Stomachs of life on our earth ( protists, meiofauna, megafauna , and the kingdoms of plants also claim this as their earth) are hinting to us that our earth itself will function for our betterment, for tolerance of peoples, only so far as peoples do no...

Charming, don, your tight choice of two words ( Earth, and Stomach) for title of this image capture posted here, thank you, don. Stomachs are comprised of multiple tissues( many cells comprise a tissue level of organization), and stomachs are whole organism integrated to function...many cells of man...

OOps, microplan...I guess you did not see my request for info on your dense ciliate population wet mount slide.

Again, microplan, thanks for this thread. charlie g

I'll be a pest, macnmotion..did you encounter a bloom of these elegant ciliates...if so from where in your home areas? Did you culture these huge ciliates indoors at your bench? Please share, for us, the source of these wonderful protists which you image capture quite a dense population of...with on...

Nice videos...they raise the question for me of how ( with such large protists)..does a microscopist image capture detailed resolution of the cilia and contractile structures..and keep a sense of the entire ciliate. One question I have for this OP excellent set of video clips is: ' what approximate ...

I find 15X occulars work...12X..but I just do not use them. charlie g

Either 20X, or 25X work for me...often you need more than 2X,m 4X, 10X with protists and meiofauna. charlie g

Hello again, jackieone. Quality/ extremely low cost monocular 160 TL (finite optics ) are all over the internet...and you might have guessed..I have many to sell very low cost. Again I suggest you go into this terrific forums archived threads on: 'microscope bench', on image captures, on maintaing a...

Hi, jackieone, as your great videos of: yellow scorpion, and of rotifers, and of amoeba show ( thanks for sharing these to forum)..with your two types of microscopes, your foundation is solid (for now!), microscopes breed day, or night. Perhaps trick out your Swift SW350B microscope with 20X, and 60...

@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...

Hi, debult, your aplomb with: 'buyer beware/ buyer check it all out'...well this exactly feeds into my reluctance to spend high price monies for items deep into europe. Maybee purchase low cost candies..but not high cost optics. You just opined: ' not the sellers problem'...well then my sense is : w...

Thanks, j-wisc, for this thoughtful/ useful thread, hi all. My stereoscope would only awaken from it's storage shelf...if/when I am introducing novice microscopy ( informal, or formal students) folk to the dimensions of our world , of our everyday world ...our important microbe and meiofauna service...

For quite a few weeks, my 'sent PM's' show no indication they were "sent"..they just sit in my "outbox"..it does seem like an irregularity. charlie g

Hi, J-wisc, and all..quite a few threads ago ( maybe two months?) I groused about trying to purchase gift tee-shirts ( really, really cool '3D images on the shirts)...I was sort of not understood in my lament: the singapore firm..as your progressed through 'check out'..kept applying fees...the most ...

@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...