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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Trichamoeba ameba
- Replies: 2
- Views: 38
Re: Trichamoeba ameba
Wonderful color and texture!
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Un-scraped and Scraped Grass Blades
- Replies: 0
- Views: 19
Un-scraped and Scraped Grass Blades
The new grass is finally showing green in the lawn after a long cold season in Winnipeg. I took a sample of a small broad leaf grass in the lawn. I looked at it un-scraped and then I scraped the outer layer of cells (top then bottom) to clear the cell membranes.
https://youtu.be/e2aTQtJ6ars
https://youtu.be/e2aTQtJ6ars
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: It Keeps Getting Denser
- Replies: 0
- Views: 32
It Keeps Getting Denser
The biome is a pile of living things moving through a syrup of digested vegetation. The cell structure of the leaf residue is lost. It is now a mass of dense green syrup with lumps of still undigested leaf structure. I can no longer discern the cell structure in what was grassy leaves before. https:...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Maybe Something New Coming
- Replies: 3
- Views: 73
Re: Maybe Something New Coming
Wow! Thanks for the kind words. You know you are feeding a huge ego. I never saw much color in the world of microbes. They are usually translucent.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Maybe Something New Coming
- Replies: 3
- Views: 73
Maybe Something New Coming
I've been watching this biome for weeks. It's a very dense biofilm with bits of solid material floating through it. The digestion of much of the vegetation by the protists is clear. Now I am seeing an ameba returning. It seems like the range and variety of protists may still develop with time. https...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Rotifer hatching
- Replies: 4
- Views: 67
Re: Rotifer hatching
Thanks--that guided my looking.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: A New Grass
- Replies: 0
- Views: 23
A New Grass
I celebrated Spring by examining a brand new blade of grass from root to leaf. The root was still coated with dirt, exactly as it emerged from the soil. I used magnifications from digital microscope to high power objective for these images.
https://youtu.be/8gSEIvjYI9A
https://youtu.be/8gSEIvjYI9A
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Rotifer hatching
- Replies: 4
- Views: 67
Re: Rotifer hatching
Impressive catch. The only problem I can't tell what I'm seeing. Could you add a bit more description?
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The Roof of the Microbe Settlement
- Replies: 0
- Views: 27
The Roof of the Microbe Settlement
This is more of the thickening vegetable shell floating on top of the water. The microbes are prospering as they process the proteins in the water and generate biofilm. I'm never bored watching them.
https://youtu.be/rAf17mHjmYI
https://youtu.be/rAf17mHjmYI
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Protists in Slightly Deeper Water
- Replies: 2
- Views: 57
Re: Protists in Slightly Deeper Water
Thanks Macmotion. I am actually seeing a little bit of eating other microbes behavior. That was missing until now. They were all absorption feeders.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Protists in Slightly Deeper Water
- Replies: 2
- Views: 57
Protists in Slightly Deeper Water
I just stuck my pipette close to the bottom of my water jar to get a sample. After several weeks my water sample has separated into a dense biome that sinks to the bottom of the jar and another biome which floats on top. The middle of the sample is clear water. There appear to be sampling difference...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:16 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Diatomaceous garbage dump
- Replies: 1
- Views: 94
Re: Diatomaceous garbage dump
Neat images!
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Leaf of a Pineapple Fruit
- Replies: 0
- Views: 34
Leaf of a Pineapple Fruit
The pineapple fruit is topped by a formation of stiff stickery leaves. These are usually tossed off as unimportant. However, the leaves of a pineapple have their own unique look. They are very stiff and hard and close to protect the fruit almost like a shell. The cells are big and bold. They have a ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The Colony
- Replies: 0
- Views: 34
The Colony
This is basic life on Earth. They are all hungry and frantic. They couldn't servive if they weren't even if they knew what survival means. I see something in these pictures I have not seen for a while: instances where the protists look like they are actively feeding. Do they know? I keep asking the ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: A Society of Hungry Protists
- Replies: 0
- Views: 41
A Society of Hungry Protists
This is basic life on Earth. They are all hungry and frantic. They couldn't survive if they weren't even if they knew what survival means. Do they know?
https://youtu.be/L85_7zQn90U
https://youtu.be/L85_7zQn90U
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Sameness and Individuality in Leaf Cells
- Replies: 0
- Views: 31
Sameness and Individuality in Leaf Cells
The cells that make up leaves are generally all the same. But microscopic examination suggests that cells have individual differences from each other. These differences appear to be due to both heredity variance and variance due to growth conditions.
https://youtu.be/oIg-_ncY-KU
https://youtu.be/oIg-_ncY-KU
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Meeting a Child
- Replies: 0
- Views: 64
Meeting a Child
I was a monster today. The boy wouldn't look at me. He hid his face when I appeared at lunch and tried to run away but couldn't get far. Was I ready to consume him? Perhaps. He had waited. I wonder if I was some kind of dream. My body had alrady begun to fade and for him I already did, small pieces ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:09 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: State of the Biome
- Replies: 0
- Views: 41
State of the Biome
The biofilm is reaching a late stage. I keep adding nutrition and the biome gets more dense. It has become something of a management problem when the biome materials pile up on the slide. It's still too cold in Winnipeg to collect a new sample. Still, I may have to reduce this one. https://youtu.be/...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:51 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Egg Shell Fiber
- Replies: 0
- Views: 50
Egg Shell Fiber
Egg shells have an inner layer of knotted fiber and an outer layer of solid crystal excretion. I examined the inner lining layer. These layers are discernable through the microscope viewed at high power. The fibers are hard to see. because they are extremely thin and they congeal together. https://y...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Very Dense Biofilm
- Replies: 0
- Views: 46
Very Dense Biofilm
The water is full of very small organisms that pack the water and dim the image. Because of a previous experiment some of the image is clouded--the lens needs cleaning, But I would say this is a microbe chaos.
https://youtu.be/drF0f1weZfo
https://youtu.be/drF0f1weZfo
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:10 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: A Hairy Leaf
- Replies: 0
- Views: 62
A Hairy Leaf
This plant growing in the lawn has a deep textured surface with a lot of hair-like projections. The cells are complex. The leaf also exudes chemical fumes which cloud the microscope image with close exposure, so high magnifications do not make clear images. I exposed the microscope objectives to che...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:46 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Another Day
- Replies: 0
- Views: 69
Another Day
Moving among lumps of biofilm in the syrupy water medium, a variety of protists keep reproducing happily. This is the original biofilm sample I have been maintaining all winter, now into early spring. I will be adding new water samples as soon as I can find a natural water source in this suburban la...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Denizens of the Biofilm
- Replies: 0
- Views: 61
Denizens of the Biofilm
Solid matter suspended in the biofilm has made the medium into a kind of syrup. There is a variety of protists in the water as always. I continue to add new vegetable matter nutrient. I still don't see much in the way protist eating protist activity.
https://youtu.be/59sMK_Adej4
https://youtu.be/59sMK_Adej4
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: A Pink Flower with Big Cells
- Replies: 0
- Views: 71
A Pink Flower with Big Cells
This lovely flower is growing in the lawn. I violated a trust and pulled a petal from the flower. Close-up, at hundreds of times magnification, these pretty flowers have a special intimate beauty.
https://youtu.be/sbR0iZLJwKo
https://youtu.be/sbR0iZLJwKo
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: A Generous Mudpuddle Bounty
- Replies: 0
- Views: 85
A Generous Mudpuddle Bounty
It's not that I breed these little things but I did invite them and encouraged them--my fundamental neighbors. These are the beings that inhabit my mudpuddles. I wish I could say more about them, but they are silent in their ordinariness.
https://youtu.be/n-BjHyQTiGQ
https://youtu.be/n-BjHyQTiGQ
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:57 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Thin Slice of Carrot
- Replies: 0
- Views: 86
Thin Slice of Carrot
I cut a piece of carrot into thin horizontal slices and examined the top and bottom of a slice. I saw thick, irregular cells. The tops of the cells appeared to be more closed--with cells closer together--than the cells seen from below. https://youtu.be/RauvsppoDck Carrot Cells: macro view. When comp...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Heavier Forms on the Fringe
- Replies: 0
- Views: 75
Heavier Forms on the Fringe
In the center of the biofilm but resting on the bottom of the jar (the densist part) is a special group of heaviest life forms. They don't move much and I can't really tell if they represent anything distinct, except that they are heaviest.
https://youtu.be/i5hGqDQdCsg
https://youtu.be/i5hGqDQdCsg
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:51 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Steady State Biome
- Replies: 0
- Views: 78
Steady State Biome
A thick biofilm sits on top of the water in the biome. The residents of the biome are soaked in nutrients and show their contentment by resting still. The water is jelly-like. It lakes time to refresh the sample since I am entertained by change not stability. In the biome, stability means death. htt...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:39 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: A Messy Mudpuddle Sample
- Replies: 0
- Views: 83
A Messy Mudpuddle Sample
I took a mixed-up sample from the mudpuddle biome this moning. That sample is undergoing interesting changes. The water is filled with very tiny (bacteria-sized) fast-moving organisms. The appear to be circular but they move very fast and I can't see them that well. Then there are the familiar small...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:23 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Young Rubber Plant Leaf
- Replies: 0
- Views: 78
Young Rubber Plant Leaf
I looked at the unprotected bottom showing unprotected cells then the top showing cover protection then top with protective skin removed.
https://youtu.be/9Id3ZfQOZw4
https://youtu.be/9Id3ZfQOZw4