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Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2021 3:35 pm**

A habitual ciliate

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:48 pm**

Another fine ciliate you got me watching, Francisco!
Have you tried slowing them down with some carboxymethyl cellulose or similar?

Louise

Posted: **Wed Dec 01, 2021 12:07 am**

Very nice, Francisco!

Posted: **Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:25 am**

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Fun ride!

Posted: **Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:48 am**

LouiseScot wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:48 pm
Another fine ciliate you got me watching, Francisco!
Have you tried slowing them down with some carboxymethyl cellulose or similar?

Louise

Hello.
Thanks for your comment.
I have not used products to slow down movement but I want to give it a try. Do they alter the "natural" shape of microorganisms?

Posted: **Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:49 am**

Thanks Javier and 75RR

Posted: **Wed Dec 01, 2021 12:23 pm**

Francisco wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:48 am

LouiseScot wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:48 pm
Another fine ciliate you got me watching, Francisco!
Have you tried slowing them down with some carboxymethyl cellulose or similar?

Louise
Hello.
Thanks for your comment.
I have not used products to slow down movement but I want to give it a try. Do they alter the "natural" shape of microorganisms?

I never have either! I don't think they affect morphology - they just thicken the medium. A bit like cooking! You can find references online. Also on YouTube e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vowfgDu8Fz4

Louise

Posted: **Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:37 pm**

LouiseScot wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 01, 2021 12:23 pm

Francisco wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:48 am

LouiseScot wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:48 pm
Another fine ciliate you got me watching, Francisco!
Have you tried slowing them down with some carboxymethyl cellulose or similar?

Louise
Hello.
Thanks for your comment.
I have not used products to slow down movement but I want to give it a try. Do they alter the "natural" shape of microorganisms?
I never have either! I don't think they affect morphology - they just thicken the medium. A bit like cooking! You can find references online. Also on YouTube e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vowfgDu8Fz4

Louise

Thanks for the info.
I have to try it

Posted: **Wed Dec 01, 2021 3:05 pm**

A very nice, clear video! I can see why you're thinking of Plagiopyla, but the angle and shape of the oral cleft, and the position of the contractile vacuole, mark this as a hymenostome, and most likely Colpidium colpoda. See page 48, here: http://www.wfoissner.at/data_prot/foiss ... _klein.pdf

Posted: **Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:44 am**

Bruce Taylor wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 01, 2021 3:05 pm
A very nice, clear video! I can see why you're thinking of Plagiopyla, but the angle and shape of the oral cleft, and the position of the contractile vacuole, mark this as a hymenostome, and most likely Colpidium colpoda. See page 48, here: http://www.wfoissner.at/data_prot/foiss ... _klein.pdf

Thanks Bruce for the correct identification.

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