This film shows a variety of protists (and a Rotifer) I imaged on a recent trip to the coast. I gathered the sample from a small creek several meters upstream from it's mergence with the ocean.
It is very beautiful, your video is of exceptional quality, the choice of music is simply beautiful and the record between each microorganism is catchy.Thank you so much!
Hello Mr Craig Smith, I've got microscope Carl Zeiss Universal, it has only Zeiss Inko (DIC) Conderser. What kind of parts I need for being DIC method.
Lovely video! I have spent a fair bit of time with Climacostomum (and wrote the Wikipedia article you pasted into your opening comments). I do not think these are Climacostomum virens. There is no sign of that organism's distinctive cytopharyngeal structure, nor do we see its posterior vacuole and the attached canals. They are clearly Heterotrichs. I suspect they are highly contracted, and somewhat squashed, Stentors (some species, like S. pyriformis, are quite stout).
Great video as usual. A question for anyone who knows: What are those smaller worm-like critters that are moving around quickly starting at around 4:30?
They look like anoxic spiral-shaped bacteria, well they probably do have a lot of oxygen around so maybe they could be classic spirilla, they just seem a little thick.
Hello; You'll need the DIC analyzer marked with th "II" marking, the 32mm Zeiss polarizing filter and some appropreiate objectives. They don't all work but I have the following and they work well; The the 25X Zeiss Planapo, The 50X Zeitz NPL Fluotar oel and the 100X Zeizz Planapo.. Best, Craig
