Hunting for Desmids

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Hunting for Desmids

#1 Post by Plasmid » Sun Oct 25, 2020 3:01 am

Hello and thank you for taking your time in helping. Im trying to hunt for Desmids but so far have been unsuccessful. I normally gather my samples from retention ponds and streams , found many Ciliates and Algae but no Desmids like Closterium. Is there a giveaway sign or environment where they can be found in numbers and once collected jow to maintain a colony?

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Re: Hunting for Desmids

#2 Post by Chris Dee » Sun Oct 25, 2020 5:38 am

If you can find an area with floating pondweed, algae, or submerged plants, try grabbing some and gently squeezing the water out into a collection vessel. You could do this at several collection sites and keep notes of what you find at each. Should also aid in hunting other microbes for future study. HTH

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Re: Hunting for Desmids

#3 Post by 75RR » Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:58 am

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They apparently quite like acidic water so they are quite happy in bogs and such.

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/ind ... algdr.html
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Re: Hunting for Desmids

#4 Post by Plasmid » Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:44 am

75RR wrote:
Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:58 am
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They apparently quite like acidic water so they are quite happy in bogs and such.

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/ind ... algdr.html
Thank you, this has helped a lot.

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