Wednesday 11 March 2015

Microscopic Pond Life

A second session with the video camera on the microscope. This time with some water taken from the main pond:



During a search of the net I found a few pdf files to help me identify what I can see.

The first clip has a small round green diatom (bottom left) but I can't work out what the transparent creature is (centre screen).
The second clip shows several diatoms.
The final clip, my favourite, shows a rotifer (I hope).

All were observed using the same 100x objective with the video camera adding some more magnification as the view is larger than the sensor.

6 comments:

  1. Makes sense. It's spinning like a top. Fantastic.

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  2. Adrian: Results are better than I expected. The investment in the old Vickers microscope is beginning to pay off.

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  3. Wow! It's a very Quatermass world in there!

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    1. It is SDT. Some weird and wonderful creatures to be discovered.

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  4. interesting the tiny organisms that exist.

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    1. I wonder what you have in your large pond TWG. Probably better off not knowing ;)

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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