What was the ciliate that ate a stentor?

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Microbia · #1 Post by **Microbia** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:35 pm

it looks like Homalozoon and it eats like Homalozoon, but it is oval shaped and it doesn't have a granular mass near the mouth..

Francisco · #2 Post by **Francisco** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:23 pm

Fantastic video

zzffnn · #3 Post by **zzffnn** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:29 pm

Amazing video, thank you for sharing!

billben74 · #4 Post by **billben74** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:33 pm

Very nice indeed.
I can here a comentator making a comparison with anaconda eating a gazelle ...

Microbia · #5 Post by **Microbia** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:50 pm

Thank you all for watching and comments!
Btw I was told that it could be Spathidium sp

billporter1456 · #6 Post by **billporter1456** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:23 pm

Outstanding! You have captured some HUGE meals in your videos and this is one of the best. I don't think I've ever seen the ciliate that did the eating. Was your sample from a local pond?

JimT · #7 Post by **JimT** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:36 pm

Microbia, yes very good video. I can not find a definitive reference to the size of Spathidium but must be large.

Microbia · #8 Post by **Microbia** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 11:03 pm

billporter1456 wrote:Outstanding! You have captured some HUGE meals in your videos and this is one of the best. I don't think I've ever seen the ciliate that did the eating. Was your sample from a local pond?

Thank you! This sample is from the pond of the newly opened park in the center of Moscow just near the Red Square.

Microbia · #9 Post by **Microbia** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 11:13 pm

JimT wrote:Microbia, yes very good video. I can not find a definitive reference to the size of Spathidium but must be large.

Thank you. Yes, this ciliate is quite large. I used 20x objective here. And there were much larger ciliates of this spicie in the sample.

billporter1456 · #10 Post by **billporter1456** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 11:58 pm

Microbia wrote:
billporter1456 wrote:Outstanding! You have captured some HUGE meals in your videos and this is one of the best. I don't think I've ever seen the ciliate that did the eating. Was your sample from a local pond?
Thank you! This sample is from the pond of the newly opened park in the center of Moscow just near the Red Square.

Wow, your sample jar, the pond, and Moscow all in the same photo! Now that's the way to answer my question. Just goes to show that one can be right in the middle of an urban area and still find lots of pond water creatures.

Crater Eddie · #11 Post by **Crater Eddie** » Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:27 pm

You are certainly getting a lot of cool action from that pond, and your imaging is quite good. Thanks for the photo of the source pond, it is always interesting to see where things come from. And the fact that it is in the middle of Moscow makes it even more interesting. I am enjoying your videos, keep up the good work!
CE

billbillt · #12 Post by **billbillt** » Mon Sep 18, 2017 3:35 pm

Hi Microbia,

Thanks for sharing a very interesting video... I ditto all CE posted....

BillT

vasselle · #13 Post by **vasselle** » Tue Sep 19, 2017 12:02 am

Bonjour
Très belle vidéo
Cordialement seb

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