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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?

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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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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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.