Odd structure, any ideas?

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Chris Dee · #1 Post by **Chris Dee** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 12:34 pm

Seen quite a few of these in samples from bottom of my critter tank. Glass-like hollow shells with multiple crooked limbs, anyone else encountered them?

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75RR · #2 Post by **75RR** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 1:25 pm

Looks like a Trichome (i.e. a plant hair)

https://www.backyardnature.net/hairs.htm

https://www.npsnj.org/articles/oak_blac ... hairs.html

Chris Dee · #3 Post by **Chris Dee** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 1:38 pm

Puzzle solved, thanks 75RR.

MicroBob · #4 Post by **MicroBob** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 2:13 pm

Hi Chris,
could it be this: https://www.mikroskopie-forum.de/index. ... ic=35771.0?

Bob

Chris Dee · #5 Post by **Chris Dee** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 3:02 pm

Didn't expected there to be more than one possible candidate with this shape

I did collect some root mass from a lilly populated pond, and the more irregular limb distribution of Astrosclereid could be a closer match. I'll do a stacked image when I spot another.

MicroBob · #6 Post by **MicroBob** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 4:41 pm

Chris Dee wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 13, 2020 3:02 pm
Didn't expected there to be more than one possible candidate with this shape

That's microscopy!

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