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Hello...go to Olivers: 'author index'...look for charles guevara...keep warm...and keep microscopy looking in winter!

Long ago as undergrad..I used succulent plant: Kalenchoe daigremontianum(?sp?)...a succulent termed:'the pregnancy plant'. I have the 1974 preparred slides I made for a microtechnique course under Dr. Randal...thank you Dr.Randal! My wax blocks I was able to section at about 7-10 microns (giving awa...

The red pigment is a very good antioxident nutrient which your hardy protist: Haematococcus pluvialis makes. Everything including pink flamingo birds, pink fleshy salmon fish, pink fleshy shrimp..and we humans ingest this protist made pigment! They have huge open air culture tanks in Hawaii (I think...

Nice hypotrich, I promise to get out my: "Protozoology" 5th edition,Kudo...and stick my neck out.

Kudo's to you, Gekko. charlie guevara

Very nice section of a 'succulent'! thank you, charlie guevara

Beautiful, Gekko...reminds me of the cargo-containers 'back logged' at the California dock work slow down.

Please tell us what the image is?! charlie guevara

Fantastic that you image captured: 'round bordered pits'...of secondary-growth zyleme (secondary growth zyleme=wood!). Your use of a lead pencil-sharpener to get your samples is so ellegant, Gekko! I'm now thinking that we can determine if the 'wood' is angiosperm tree wood...or conifer tree wood......

Wonderful and quite adaptable gear you have, kkokolis. I sense though..you will get a case of: 'microscope-fever'...and start thinking about purchase of a compound microscope. The compound microscope with 2XPlan objective, and 4XPlan objective..with 6X, 8X,the usual 10X eyepieces...will permit a lot...

Hello, AMU, and welcome! Regarding clearing of insects...Ohio grad student: ZL"Kai"Burington swears by a combination of: sodium hydroxide,acetic acid, and lactic acid ( her blogg mentions this on 1/2/15.). Google her name+clearing agent. Before this 'improvement, "Kai" swwore by 80% lactic acid: 'th...

My 'Lunar polarizers 'simply screw apart...but microscope polarizer pairs are lowcost..for simple DIY cross-pol microscopy.

charlie guevara

Warmest welcome, Walter! I enjoy your foraminoferens, you opened my eyes to their importance on the sea floors.

charlie guevara in cold finger lakes/USA

Hello...put one below the microscope stage..in the light path. To try the technique 'DIY', place the second polarizer filter right over the eye piece...rotate this polarizer as you look through the microscope. all the best, charlie Guevara/finger lakes,US

After this nice thread, I tested the Leitz Wetzlar/Germany Flour 63X objective..it works fine. If you are interested in both a 20X, and 63X objective, Crater Eddy ( have I enjoyed your postings a few years back, in: www.cloudynights.com ?!) ..if you are interested in both these 160 mm tube length ob...

Thanks for shareing the tour of:'King Solomons Mines', kkokkolis, I enjoyed it very much. Please try a low cost pen-lazer ( or the beam from your collimator-lazer?) ..shine it at different angles into some of your crystals. The internal reflections you may encounter are spectacular..and look at the ...

That pennate diatom with all the oil globules..well I want to pop it in my mouth like a cough-drop! Beautiful structure...pleasing colors, vessele...thank you! I find so often that the freshwater diatoms I encounter in the thick of harshly cold winters, these are loaded with those pleasing oil globu...

Congrats ,Jim T on giving us a 'shoot out' between your 40X and 60X dry objectives..yes Dale will like his Plan objectives more so than achromatic objectives...they do cost more on a new microscope. I have a wonderful 'work horse' Nikon, Japan Plan 60X/0.85,160 tube length,0.11-0.23 ( a correction-c...

Thanks for the assist, 'QCC', your shared link worked sweet! Err..should I always use such a direct link in the future, or was this just a 'glitch'? We summer on St.Lawrence river on the Ogdensburg shore area...we love visiting Ottawa, Montreal...the muskies seem to bite better on the Canadian side ...

Wonderful DIC contrast of the streaming inclusions within those two beasts, Gekko, thank you! If that was simple specimen wetmount taken from their habitat..what a delightful encounter you imaged. Or did you set up that confrontation? With protists that large, you get a good idea what they eat,,,wel...

Thank you for the eye candy, just in time for Valentines Day! charlie guevara/ finger lakes,US

Congrats, mrsonchus! I am a terrific fan of low cost LED torches...I use them all the time at my microscopy bench. Is the image of those seeds with your 4X objective? Very crisp image. Being on the other side of the pond..I'm curious about your remark: 'Heath-'...does this equate with: 'quick and di...

Hello Oliver and all...I simply can no download the most current issue of the group magazine...please help?! The issue below it downloads fine when I click on it...the most current issue simply does not download for me. Please advise me on this matter...I'm eager to look at the current issue...and e...

Hello all...yup..it's cold in finger-lakes NY too. Butm majority of protists and meiofauna..yes and snails, fish,insects are active under the ice. Of course we all have heard of folks who enjoy 'ice-fishing'..well these multitudes of fish share their waters with the smaller protists and meiofauna co...

wonderful image...sometimes the 'background' about the image captured organism gives a sense of the organisms world. It may help give context and sense of that habitat...if diatoms, algae strands, other protists and neiofauna are captured in the image ...magnification setup is always cheered with fe...

Hi, gekko...please get bolder in your home area microscopy...perhaps dig into that rain water area and place a deep-dish plastic container to host a: 'vernal pond'. You still let nature take it's course...but you nudge habitat to be a vernal pool. When nobody in my family was looking, I placed river...

Beautiful image...and nice texture and color...thanks. Please tell me...what are: "PL's"..in your description of the optical setup? all the best, charlie guevara

Hello,gekko...beautiful images. Can you share the stand and the setup you used for this image of a rotifer?

all the best, charlie guevara

Hello group...and hello Oliver. I'm 'an old-forum member'...old in more ways than one, gulp! I,m finger-lakes/US located, I enjoy freshwater live organism microscopy. I'm bright-field/Dark field/DL phase contrast microscopist with a very simple image capture method: Canon rebel xt + camera relay-len...