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Amazing video.

Is it the same as this one as I've identified this i think to Caenomorpha medusula because of the posterior spine https://www.flickr.com/photos/154534235@N07/50932877982/in/datetaken/ As far as the low oxygen water, these are from a 2 litre jar that I keep all my samples in, I do supply it with oxyg...

What is this I wonder. Have spent quite a few hours now looking through all my online PDF books and I cannot find a name for this little critter. It moves damn quick and is very hard to image. EDIT: It might be is a Metopus but it's not like the normal shaped ones I see, but then it does twist while...

Thanks Bruce I think identification will have to wait till I get a higher mag objective.

Am I looking at a Uroleptus here?

I cannot seem to find anything else that fits it.

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Just checking if this is a Actinophryid

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What a cracking specimen, lovely framed as well.

Again very interesting so much to learn. Thanks Bruce you are such a benefit to this forum.

In one of my samples I have come across a number of Spirostomum. The problem I'm having quite a few look different from the normal S. minus I normally see. I think a few of them are maybe S. intermedium. I'll post a few videos of both and see what you think. S. minus https://www.flickr.com/photos/15...

My gut doesn't mind being wrong, it normally is

Thanks Bruce.

Came across this very contractile and green Stentor while sampling my last pond dip. I was amazed at how far it stretched. It was also very green and had the macronucleaus beads. Now I know both S. coerules and S. polymorphus has these beads but which one is it. My gut says S. polymorphus as S coeru...

Thanks Plasmid what a great video, at least I have a name to go on now.

This is the biggest amoeba I have seen to date. It filled the whole field of view at 100X. The ciliate at the bottom of the amoeba is a Loxodes. If you take a Loxodes at 100 micron in length that means the amoeba must be at least 1200 microns long and 500 microns wide. Unsure what type it is but it ...

Thanks Bruce.

Just need confirmation please.

I think these are Loxodes sp

Can they be identified to species level.

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This make sense as they are pretty quick and very hard to image. Thanks for the link as well it's a shame there is not an english version of Alfred Kahl's book.

These two came from the same specimen jar. I must have seen about 20 off these critters altogether. I'm pretty sure it is the same species as above as they were all together. https://www.flickr.com/photos/154534235@N07/50914092257/in/datetaken/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/154534235@N07/50914093062...

That's what i thought the dome is uncharacteristically high, will keep an eye out for more examples.

I agree a rotifer for me as well.

Wow really impressive, a wonderful photo.

Maybe Euplotes affnis.

I'm struggling with this one. My first thought was euplotes or a chilodonella but seen from a different angle that you don't normally see them from.

I'm sure someone will point me in the right direction.

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I'm 12 short of the full messier list so I've seen 98 off them. But there are many hundreds even thousands of galaxies, clusters, nebulas, and binary stars that can be seen with a telescope. Off course the bigger your scope the more light gathering ability it will have to see these fainter objects.

If only I knew David Attenborough

Thanks Bob that's really interesting. My aquarium is a lot more simpler basically just soil or detritus from the the bottom of a pond, add some pond water and a few plants from the same pond, pretty basic but very effective, like a microcosm of the actual pond.

Love the additional info Bruce you are a fountain of knowledge.

I have a small fish tank that I have half filled with pond water and have done a few hay infusions inside it. This has accumalated in having a lot of Paramecium, cyclidium, and other numerous ciliates buzzing around. Now what I do is whenever I get a good specimen say for example a Lacrymaria olar o...

A wonderful video of a Dileptus margaritifer I just want to make sure it's not the anser variety.

You can see the oral opening and all those contractile vacuoles very well.

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I've only googled the last image and it looks very similar to Hymenolepsis nana gravid proglottids

Lovely I'm so pleased.

Thanks