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my last teasel video of 2022: Thanks for posting, very interesting. We have teasel growing wild here in sw England, (especially in my wild garden - which used to be my veg. garden , , , that is another story !) We had one specimen last year that was nearly twice my height but I did not think to loo...

tomorrow - but have an issue. I'm in Canada, it's still winter, , reasonable density of organisms under these circumstances? Have you recently bought your partner a bunch of flowers :) ! The water in the vase in which they stand should provide some critters. @dtsh suggestion is good. Alternative, a...

I was hoping to do a short-cut ! ( My 7 year old grand daughter arrived home from school one day last year and told her mother she wanted to see a tardigrade ! She had found a book in the library showing them. ) Looks like it will have to be the wild route for us as well. Some questions then arise :...

Yes "or/and" ,, same street address different post codes ! That must confuse the postie :) Meanwhile I have found the old Sciento web site on archive.com https://web.archive.org/web/20180208122924/http://sciento.co.uk/ Looks like they ceased trading Feb/Mar 2021 :( That is a shame, very interesting ...

MichaelG. wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 08, 2023 8:33 pm

61 Bury Old Road, M45 6TB

Thanks for that find,
a google shows it is now "Glatt Butchers"
looks like I am too late for Sciento

Sciento, Manchester, UK the linked ref. gives : 2.1. Origin of the cultured species The commercial culture of parthenogenetic Hys.exemplaris, was provided by Sciento (Manchester, UK) which was initially exciting :) a quick google showed http://www.sciento.co.uk/ but, sadly, this is an abandoned sit...

SuiGenerisBrewing wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 01, 2023 1:58 pm

I found this article
Looks like a fun project!
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10 ... 21.1881631

Thanks, nice find !
I see a project in my future ( next time I find some tardi ! )

The glass beads begged for me to look at them under my microscope ..... Instant light alignment tool ! An interesting effect, I have some of that somewhere, from my tropical fish keeping days, I wonder where I put it !! Just for info. it is not glass! It is an ion exchange resin. The DI on the labe...

legionair wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:32 am

to be replaced by

Hi,
have you seen the excellent stacking freeware "Picolay"
http://www.picolay.de

Edit: Oh! despite the new home page showing clothes-pegs, it is really good microscopically

A copepod. nauplius, larva. Cyclops perhaps

macnmotion wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 15, 2022 4:46 pm

first may be some type of water flea

A copepod nauplius, I think. Early larval stage.

Always hours of fun chasing them round slides !
Here is one I posted some time ago
https://youtu.be/3WIOt18XSFQ

they're just too intense and there's no means to dial the light down. That is an advantage of the diy I proposed, it can be achieved by simply** including an extra series resistor to dim (or slightly increase the voltage supply to brighten). The little black object on the edge of the 12v panel is i...

Javier wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 07, 2022 2:14 am

Davinci Resolve

Thanks for the extra infos.

I've been using VirtualDub and VSDC, I'll give Davinci a try now

Hi, Please forgive me for posting so much lately, but I had to share this. I found what I think is a Frontonia that had ate a massive Diatom. It was moving very slowly until it stayed still. After a few minutes it released the Diatom and immediately came back to life. I found the whole thing so coo...

Theodore Stepanides thought that an old-fashioned oil lamp was good. (as was a 60W Opal bulb) See (~page 70 on): https://archive.org/details/MicroscopePrinciples/page/n69/mode/2up Thank you, nice find. Interesting that as recently as 1947 he is rating an oil flame better than opal electric, both be...

dependent on mirrors for lighting. Does anyone have an adjustable LED plate? Hi, I'm a bit late on parade, sorry! :) If you are up for some DIY there are lots of cheap (a few $ only) flat panel led arrays on ebay. (search - led cob car panel) Used below a diffuser a 48chip array works for me. The o...

hgrav_DE wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 26, 2022 2:11 pm

Hello everyone!
.. the 100x (which i apparently dont need anyways according to Oliver )

Welcome aboard !
I have replaced my 100x ( which I also do not need (yet!) ) with a 60x.

Anyone's guess. If he/she had answered my question about a high contrast moving object or Louise about tissue we might be a bit wiser by now ? I think original (C) wacky baccy was right !

apochronaut wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 21, 2022 3:07 pm

He says he is using .12 coverslips. I don't know of any 40X that won't focus with those.

That assumes the 40x even has the ability to focus. It may be too badly damaged already.

We just need more info from W W to help plot a path of discovery !

Perhaps a high contrast item, like a thread, on the stage in place of the slide to see if you can see it moving and get idea of the 40x focus point.

I can see the sample fine... https://ibb.co/mcXh3Hq The image is a little unclear since I took it with my phone... Firstly I would not play with the 100x objective until we can sort out the 40x (and/or any other problems !), the 100x is very tricky to use at the best of times and you may well cause...

May I ask what does calibrating a microscope mean? Good question! I wondered what OP meant as well, since instructions for stage micrometer slides are widespread on the web. Perhaps it means calibrating the Z-axis, ie, up-down - focus travel, - depth measurement, like how thick is that diatom :) No...

I just wanted to say hi and thank you for the videos! There is a brighter spot in the middle of the image which could be reflections from the tube? Hi and welcome aboard from me also. Yes reflection defo a possibility, forum member Louisescot has done a lot of experimenting with dslr adapters for v...

Well, pale greenish ! :) Over the past year and more I have seen many orange spotted ones but only read about other types. Nice to finally find a few green ones in close company with the orange ones, in the south west of England. Later a Colurella rotifer joins in. Thanks for looking. https://youtu....

richbart wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 11, 2022 10:34 pm

three prominent cirri posterior.

Thanks, I'll watch for that in future

https://youtu.be/nIZ-G380LA0 Stolonychia going through cell division sped up double speed. Nice find, well done, thanks for showing. I had a similar one a few days ago, perhaps it was also a Stolonychia, it looks (to my untutored eye!) very similar. I posted about it here :- https://www.microbehunt...

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MichaelG. wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 11, 2022 3:48 am

Unfortunately, that link doesn’t work

Unfortunately, he posted a link out of his YT editor.
Try this instead : https://youtu.be/c0XkVMaub-0

edit later to include a still clip from it,

the commands for displaying video files Hi Don, first upload your video to your youtube channel then copy its "video link" text and paste into your post. - it will look something like h ttps://youtu.be/gobbldygook or use the YOUTUBE tag in the tools of the posting form (top right of vimeo etc.) to ...

Yes, I had to laugh at that bot as well, perhaps the bots are learning a sense of humour ?

Not all bad, sometimes they raise interesting stuff from long ago !

That is an amazing creature ! thanks for showing, now I need to find one