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Rotifers invaded my moina culture :-\ (300x magnification) (video.nyc)

submitted 3 months ago by cybervseas@lemmy.world to c/microscopy@mander.xyz

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Definitely have a long way to go to get better at my microscopy!

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[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think this is pretty good microscopy. Trying to focus and pan on a rotifer is like trying to photograph a dog on cocaine in an open field full of tennis ball serving machines.

Very rude of them to invade the Moina pad.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! And indeed, 100% it was more difficult because I was using a concave slide instead of a standard flat one. But it was also much nicer to not squish the rotifers -- give them a lot more time to stay alive and be studied.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

one time i tried to (gently) view a red spider mite on a flat slide under a cover slip. i obliterated that poor thing and will be perpetually haunted having witnessed my inadvertent brutality at 20x. 😭

that was the first and last >1 cell organism I ever intentionally scoped.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

A few months ago I ended up recording a hydra dying and disintegrating in real time on a flat slide I squished it on 😅