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Thank you so much for your effort to type in and for sharing. Amazing.

For a while I thought it is quite complicated and takes a while to find amoebas (maybe due to the lack of phase-contrast). But now I found an excellent source: fallen leaves are rotting in a thrown away plastic container. The brownish colour of the water suggested there might be different species th...

Amazing! But how did you you do these photos? Is this just the shell, or is the amoeba still alive? (please forgive my ignorance)

So cute! How easy was it to find? I have a relatively good source of tardigrades (moss growing in the waterspout) but even there I often don't find any.

Haha, You're right, I obviously made a typo there. The photo was made the morning the package got delivered, everyone was very excited.

Hi, My name is Daniel, I just got my scope (Olympus BL2 with phase contrast objectives and condenser), so finally I can start exploring the micro world. More specifically, I'm most interested in plant histology, but currently I'm lacking sufficient instrumentation. So we are hunting for rotifers and...