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I would suggest you increase the playback speed on YouTube. Also please let me know if the qaulity of the video is low, I just uploaded this and from what I understand sometimes when you upload a video on YouTube it can take a day or so for it to upload to the actually image qaulity of the original ...

Awesome! I'll look more into that genus. Thanks bruce!

This little big guy kept jumping in my view everytime I would zoom in to look at a cilliate. I finally found him, man was he fast!

https://youtu.be/bbbtpv5T9_Y

Really cool organism found in freshwater pond. This pond us blooming with life!

https://youtube.com/shorts/YX-uPNfLXtI?feature=share

Oh okay. Thanks Bruce:)

Would love yalls input https://youtu.be/A2yXLR8zzDE

https://youtube.com/shorts/r5aKxdt51Co?feature=share

Walking cilliate

I think I accidently cut the cell in half when I qas prepping the slide. You can see his eating his own cytoplasm and the food vacules floating around.
Hope yall enjoy this
https://youtube.com/shorts/PWifp_R2k2k?feature=share

Would love some input if this is aspidica sp.

https://youtube.com/shorts/NL8_kYRaQ5M?feature=share

Sorry for the quality. This was taken on my old microscope. Just got my new one today so the quality of my images should get alot better
https://youtube.com/shorts/9P61d7J-26Q?feature=share

I see these in my fresh water samples sometimes. It looks like a cell or maybe a cyst of some water organism? It's a time lapse and the "cell" actually grows slowly and there seems to be chrloplast slowly moving inside as well. Would love to know what these are. https://youtube.com/shorts/kkCk-NG66K...

Yup looks spot on!

Hey thanks for the help. I'm still learning Alot of taxonomy and the tree of life. I'm dive into chilomomas more, thanks!.

The reason I was thinking conjugation was because there seem to be a couple more attracted to one of the pairs scent but aren't attracted to each others. I was thinking flagelates too! Thanks for the help! I have a better scope coming tmrw.

Similar to the previous post, yet they look morphological a bit different. Found in fresh water source. Any ideas? (Time lapse fyi)


https://youtube.com/shorts/THyn-MHjAR8?feature=share

I'm not sure if these are cilliates or dinoflagellates. They seem to conjugate( i have videos of this event) Looked through one of my guides but couldn't find anything close. They are from a fresh water source and are quite small compared to say paramecia. https://youtube.com/shorts/dFWKO-lnrtw?feat...

Can anyone explain or better yet link anything explaining how one would go about extracting a single cilliate from a slide?

It looks like the cell was losing its contents. But then I looked it up and it's spot on. Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

Hey thanks so much for your thoughtful reply! I will wait to see the zeiss microscope in person, see what specs/model it is and then make a desicion.

Hey guys I just purchased a swift SW380T from amazon for roughly $389(its on the way). I have been simultaneously speaking to a microscope specialty store near me that has a zeiss research microscope that he will sell me for $650. I'm still waiting to find out what model exactly but the gentleman to...

Hello! First time poster, very happy to join this community. I was wonder if anyone has ever used nutritional yeast(not bakers) to enrich a cilliate grow chamber. From what I understand using a food source gives bacteria food, and then the eukaryotes eat the bacteria. We use it alot in our food(we a...