Micro Safari Aqua keeps aquatic ecosystems alive inside of a microscope slide for several months. On a traditional microscope slide, organisms will die in a couple hours. Purchase at: microsafari.or...
I'm glad that you appreciate that! I feel strongly about reusability/low-waste. Right now you can get 2 - 5 uses out of it depending on how careful you are not to contaminate the adhesive. If it gets too contaminated it wont make a water-tight seal. I'm looking into selling extra polymer diffusion film sections so that people can get even more uses out of the slide and only have to throw out the old polymer tape.
Sure, that should work fine. How long the yeast would last in MS Aqua is another question. It depends on the media that you are putting into there. The O2 diffusion should be sufficient for a decent number of yeast though.
Since when did you invent the chamber slide? Not to be confused with well slides and depression slides, while you may have made sufficient modifications to have improved upon the chamber slide design, you by no means invented it. Such slides and instructions on how to make them have been around for at least 100 years. Also, many pharmaceutical and scientific supply companies sell specially designed chamber slides for various purposes, most commonly for counting parasites and/or eggs where it’s safer and more economical to use than petri dishes.
Hello! Micro Safari Aqua uses a gas-diffusion film to favorably regulate the permeation of CO2 and O2 whilst limiting the rate of water vapor loss. It's specifically designed to keep aquatic organisms alive for months at a time, which is a novel application and very different from typical well or depression slides. If you know of any other products that also accomplishes this please share. Also, If you feel that this is an invalid patent, please let the USPTO know.
Great invention. Probably won't work with a 40x objective and many introductory microscopes come with 10x, 40x and 100x objectives. This would make only the 10x usable. It would be best to add 4x and 20x objectives for more versatility.
Love this idea! I just found your product while looking for a microscope review. The microSafari looked so neat! So sorry it is discontinued. Have you thought about a similar product to the aqua for soil samples?
Thank you for the kind words! And yes, I have. The benefit of aquatic samples is that you'll practically find live organisms in almost every natural body of water. The same cannot be said for soil samples. There's a certain amount of knowing where you need to collect from to find lots of live organisms in soil. If Micro Safari Aqua does well, I will create Micro Safari Terra, and figure out how to educate customers on where to collect samples from to create their own soil ecosystems in a slide.
Question, I have one of the previous versions with soil, and everything has since collapsed inside that little system after having it for 2 years and moving across the country, so I was wondering if it would be interesting to introduce some outdoor soil to the slide to see if anything interesting shows up? 🤔 I know it might be a long shot finding any success, but I have this giant slide to experiment with now. 😅 Before I break anything on accident is it possible to remove the little foam bits on the ends of the large slide or should I just carefully scoop soil in via one of the food and water ports? Thanks for any tips and I look forward to grabbing the new aqua slides for our homeschool microscope work this next year, they look fantastic!
You can certainly try it. Yes, you'd want to manually remove the foam plugs to remove the existing soil and then get new soil in there. Because the inner section is so thin, you may have difficulty removing the existing soil unless it is completely dry. Same issue with getting new soil in, is that it has to be at a certain moisture level and particle size, otherwise it will just jam up. Unfortunately it turns out that the most lively soils are also the ones that have a lot of moisture. If you have to use a tool to force the soil in or out of the slide you risk scratching the internal optical surface, but it sounds like there's not much to lose at this point. We thought about creating a fill-it-yourself soil version of Micro Safari but there are practical issues to having the customers do that part themselves. We were doing a lot of special soil prep and using custom tools to fill these slides with soil in a way that didn't scratch optical surfaces, was at a moisture level that it didn't clump, and was a controlled particle size that created air pathways to oxygenate the middle of the slide.
Hello good evening ,that’s a incredible product like to buying .but before that got a question what kind a microscope to buy?.from now on am a new subscriber.thanks
Hi Ernesto, What do you plan to use the microscope for? Is it for using casually as a hobbyist? The two options I think are the best bang for your buck and are great hobbyist microscopes are: amzn.to/39vJS6P and amzn.to/3FVFt9i Both of these models work great with Micro Safari Aqua
@@ernestofernandez9650 Sure thing. And that's perfect. I've recommended those two microscopes to families with kids and they told me they were very happy with the microscopes and their kids ended up finding all kids of things to put under them
