My first amoeba ever

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Hans2004
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My first amoeba ever

#1 Post by Hans2004 » Tue Nov 21, 2017 6:37 pm

When I was a kid I never could find any amoeba to view under the microscope. Now that I am 50 years old I have started playing with a microscope again and, thanks to the miracle of internet I knew where to look, I found one crawling on the bottom of a neglected water filled sand box.

The focus is rather unsteady due to my lack of experience with filming through the microscope and due to the fact that I was trying to shift the focus between the amoeba and the algae that was swarming around it.

Does anyone care to guess about the name of this amoeba?


JimT
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Re: My first amoeba ever

#2 Post by JimT » Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:27 pm

Hans2004, congratulations on your first amoeba. You didn't say how big it was but Paramoeba is a naked amoeba, inhibits sands, and eats algae.

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