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apochronaut wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:45 pm

You could set up a Euglena smoothee concession. Could be the next Spirulina ! Might tickle on the way down, though.

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Freshwater sample from Lumpini Park, Bangkok, Thailand.

Pond water sample from Lumpini Park, Bangkok, Thailand.

Really nice 3d effect and detail.

Ok thanks. Brought down by the old double flagella!

We see an ovoid heterotrophic euglenoid with a strongly ribbed pellicle, but I can't make out an ingestion apparatus or any flagella. I don't see how we can rule out a strongly ribbed biflagellate, like certain species of Ploetia and Entosiphon . Is there a particular species of Petalomonas you had...

At various frames in the videos, when I look frame by frame, a flagellum comes into focus. I'll grab a screenshot when home. I was hoping to ID to at least the genus level for the BioBlitz project but I had thought I probably don't have enough detail. I had thought the ribs, along with the barrel sh...

Is this the flagellate Petalomonas?

Absolutely awesome video. I find it difficult to record Condylostoma, you've done it very well.

Sure Squintsalot wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 03, 2024 6:02 pm

Cool video.

Does your rig not support darkfield?

I saw another one, so I shot it with a Rheinberg filter widefield.

While wandering through my marine sample (Gulf of Thailand), I came across what I first thought was Hydra, however Hydra don't live in marine environments. I'm trying to figure out what this is. Here are a few looks in a video, and also a quick image stack of the tentacles. mUBx3-CAxv4 hydra stack 3...

Thanks for sharing this microscopy, macnmotion. Terrific to see this behavior. That first foram at 40X-oil was a quite tiny organism ( as far as forams are discussed)..wonderful post, thank you. charlie g Thanks Charlie. I make it a habit now to scan through slides with my 40x when I have the time ...

Wonderful! Those reticulopodia in the early frames look really long. Do they extend them, latch onto something and then pull themselves along? Harry The reticulopidia can be used for both feeding and locomotion. You're exactly right in your description. Between the 2 scenes in my video the Foramini...

Sure Squintsalot wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 03, 2024 6:02 pm

Cool video.

Does your rig not support darkfield?

Darkfield only at 10x. I could have seen it in phase, but was already using oil at 40x when I found this.

I've been hoping to see this for a long time. This marine Foraminifera (from the Gulf of Thailand) pulls itself through its environment using its reticulopodia (filamentous cytoplasm).

2 examples of Trachelocerca conjugation, from a marine sample from the Gulf of Thailand.

Here's another view of it when it first arrived.

I found a place online that makes outdoor covers for grills and furniture, and also had a heavy clear material for taxi seat covers. Looks very nice. Could you give a link to the company? If postage to my place would be reasonable I am interested. However, the cover pattern/cutting instructions wou...

I'm in Bangkok. I found a place online that makes outdoor covers for grills and furniture, and also had a heavy clear material for taxi seat covers. I had them make me a cover for my scope, and one for my flat top. Total cost about US$12. I had it made with some extra room so that it would slip on a...

A collection of ciliates from a marine sample taken from mangroves alongside the Gulf of Thailand.

In addition to the marine bivalve veligers I posted a video of yesterday, I also captured some footage of a Gastropod -- in this case a snail. The lobed velum, used by the larva to swim and collect food, is very clear here.

Ahh, right. I knew I was doing something wrong, couldn't remember what. I'll fix it. Thanks.

A selection of marine diatoms from Bang Pu, Thailand. Sample taken from mangroves alongside the Gulf of Thailand.

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A set of videos from a marine sampe from the Gulf of Thailand Here are some videos I've made this past week looking inside a marine sample from mangroves alongside the Gulf of Thailand, south of Bangkok. I'm including a clip showing the location. Mangroves alongside the Gulf of Thailand xy11tHb4-8w ...

Fantastic imaging, well made video. As educational as it is beautiful. I especially liked your capture of the interplay between the contractile vacuoles and radiating canals.

DonSchaeffer wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:09 pm

Exquisite images.

Thanks Don.

Sample taken from a mangrove alongside the Gulf of Thailand. DF and BF.

Francisco wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:27 pm

Synura

Very nice video!

DonSchaeffer wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:09 pm

Beautiful photography. What is this? Is there real motion or is it just water currents?

Synura is colonial algae. They have flagella, so are capable of motion as a colony.

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