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It could be gonium: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonium

https://vimeo.com/721449712

For a sense of size: you'll see a coleps bumping into it at 30s.

Great video! Rotifers always look so alien.

It's a pity that a lot of on-topic subjects are unsearchable: https://microbehunter.com/microscopy-forum/search.php?keywords=amoeba results in The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: amoeba. You must specify at least one word to search for. Each word ...

Sometimes it's hard not to imagine some form of consciousness in these little beings. Last week I had a slide with a few paramecia and they had all grouped in one area. Then one eased alongside another and they just sat peacefully still for a some ten seconds, before both hurrying off to their daily...

Love that golden angle in the circular ones.

I had a nice slide with some pondwater. It had plenty of ciliates to look at so I put it in my box-with-wet-tissue-paper. I had noticed the banana shaped/coloured thing but thought nothing of it. The next day this enormous white thing was coming out of it. The day after roots started to grow at the ...

Found this tiny little one in a jar that had been sitting in the sun too long.
It looks a bit like a very tiny stentor sitting in its own tiny glass jar.

https://vimeo.com/709793638

Thanks again for the suggestion; I swapped the 100x for a 20x and I think it is now my most used objective (probably because depth of field and darkfield are not too good on my 40x).

Since it's easter; I found this one that seems to be coming from this egg (?) https://vimeo.com/699987247 I have no idea what this is but I've seen them before, they are mostly too busy buzzing around to get a clear picture (like these yellow ones https://vimeo.com/681039687). What is going on here?...

I was trying to inline a video into a post but couldn't get it working. Looked at the source and noticed that the embed code is severely outdated since it tries to embed using Shockwave Flash. flashEmbed.png I have not a lot of experience with phpBB but there is bound to be an update for that plugin...

Thanks for the helpful tips.
I'll take your advice and go looking for 15x eyepieces then, and maybe in the mean time swap out the 100x for a 20x.

I've been looking through the jttmc microscope for a few months now. It also came with 100x oil objective which I've only used twice so I'm thinking of swapping it for a 60x. Since I hardly know anything about the machinery my first question is: what would fit? Could I simply swap it out for a BRESS...

https://vimeo.com/697953467 Previously I only had a darkfield filter for 20x. So did some DIY for 40x (that needs a bit more perfectioning). Then I noticed these tiny strings (much more noticeable than in brightfield). Are these bacteria? Love the middle one especially; the movement is reminiscent o...

MichaelG. wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 11, 2022 6:54 pm

https://vimeo.com/673724795

works for me

MichaelG.

Yeah links work, but I thought the vimeo bbcode was supposed to embed videos.

Oh wait... askenasia looks like it

40x, found it in a ditch, so it is freshwater
Reverse image search comes up with koi carp parasites but this looks different.

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/673724795[/vimeo]

(why is this Vimeo tag not working?)

Hi everyone, I am a 47 year old front-end programmer with a new hobby. Well, not entirely new. I did have a simple compound microscope as a kid. That memory made me get a stereo microscope some fifteen years back. I use it once in a while for insects and stuff . A while back I started watching 'jour...