Amscope IQCrew inverted, 10x iPhone 3.3x lichen in mineral water. Lighting experiment with a flashlight to the right and paper over the half open condenser.
Just a very relaxed tardigrade.
I bought an entire set of DVD’s on eBay. It came with the mini series, all the seasons, Razor, Caprica, and the BSG movie that came out before the series.
And it came with this cool little collectors item. Had no idea I’d get this too but I love it!
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 20x objective, iPhone variable x, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, lichen, aquatic moss, and algae. Blackmagic app, flashlight to the right.
Huge egg in this girl. Sorry the third video is bouncing around, my 18 pound cat jumped on the table and gave the Petri dish quite a ride. But you can really see the shape of the egg in it.
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 20 objective, iPhone 4.7x, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, lichen, aquatic moss, and algae. Camera Piexels Pro app, flashlight to the right.
This is the jar that has water mites. I actually have a video of a nymph from the same time. Every day there is something new to see!
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 20 objective, iPhone 3x, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, lichen, aquatic moss, and algae. Blackmagic app, flashlight to the right.
The flagellum caught the light as they were spinning. Thought it looked cool.
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 10x objective, iPhone 4.7x, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, lichen, aquatic moss, and algae. Camera Pixels Pro app, flashlight to the right.
Forgot to add this to my other post trying to figure out what a few things are. Never saw anything like this in this jar. Nothing new has been added to the jar for probably over a month. A seed pod or an insect egg? I zoomed out for scale.
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 10x objective, iPhone variesx, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, lichen, aquatic moss, and algae. Blackmagic app, flashlight to the right.
My rotifers have gone missing out of my main jar that I've had for two months. Not sure what happened. There's a lot of biofilm and algae, but this is the jar with that enormous chaos amoeba and a few new things showing up.
I have no idea where a purple thing came from. It's not moving, Then there is a bell shaped plant like thing? And the third is a stentor I think that just doesn't have the ciliate part out?
There are many different kinds of amoebas, stentors, some ciliates, lots of gastrotrichs, and some nematodes.
Edit: Found the answer on Pling Factory as to what the third one is. Vaginicola
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 10x objective, iPhone 1.4x, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, lichen, aquatic moss, and algae. a still from the Blackmagic app, flashlight to the right.
This thing did move but so slowly it's not worth watching the ten minute video it would take to show it change form. I labeled the ciliate and other amoeba to show the size of this in relation to what is normally found in the jar.
Is it just an absolutely huge amoeba? Is it going to eat eveything in the jar? I have it in a Petri dish right now so it's not going back in if it's destructive. It will go play in another less developed jar.
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 10x objective, iPhone 4.7x, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, lichen, aquatic moss, and algae. Blackmagic app, flashlight to the right.
Always excited to see something new. And I had no idea when they get shaken loose from the base they are holding onto, they are self propelling. I couldn't get my phone rig on quick enough to catch that.
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 20 objective, iPhone 4.3x, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, lichen, moss, and algae. Blackmagic app, flashlight to the right. Focus depth did vary to get some details at different depths.
I know it's an amoeba but there's a lot going on here. At one point it seems to grab something.
What specific amoeba is it?
They really are some of the more fascinating creatures to watch. I didn't think they would be when I first started this hobby, but I love them now. And there is so much variation among them all!
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 10x objective, iPhone 4.7x, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, and lichen. Blackmagic app, flashlight to the right. Auto levels in iMovie.
Apparently their eyes only see light and dark, but they also make them look super cute!
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 200x, iPhone 4.7x, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, lichen, moss, and algae. Blackmagic app, flashlight to the right.
Never get tired of watching these mystical creatures!
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 200x, iPhone 2x, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, lichen, moss, and algae. Blackmagic app, flashlight to the right.
I took 4 shots of this "bug?" using Camera Pixels Pro. I did not use the app's focus brackets but manually refocused the microscope. I brought the pics into Affinity using Focus Merge instead of Stacks. What an amazing result I got. Stacks wasn't working well and I wondered what everyone was raving about. Focus Merge works way better. Then I cropped it and tweaked the color and clarity.
This jar has mites but I've never seen a clear one. Is it a larval version?
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 100x, iPhone 2.2x, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, lichen, moss, and algae. Blackmagic app, flashlight to the right.
Little fat tardigrade having a snack.
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 200x, iPhone 3.7x, new jarrarium with mineral water and lichen still attached to a small oak branch found on the ground after a storm. Blackmagic app, flashlight to the right.
Super excited to find tardigrades after using mineral water and soaked lichen still on a piece of oak branch.
Party at my house u/gizmomooncat!
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 100x, iPhone 2.7x, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, lichen, moss, and algae. Blackmagic app, flashlight to the right.
When I stumbled over this mite I thought he was trying to get over the plant material but then he got still for a while and I thought he died. He started to kick again and try to free himself but then I realized it looked like he was impaled by this other organism. This is over about two and a half hours. At the end the mite is still and the organism is curved up away from him and twitching.
So what was going on here?
Amscope IQCrew inverted microscope 200x, iPhone 4.7x, jarrarium with freshwater, mineral water, lichen, moss, and algae. Blackmagic app, flashlight to the right.
Watching another egg because it looks a little different than the last rotifer egg. These two guys showed up. Have no idea what they are.
Amscope Inverted microscope, 100x, iPhone 4x, lichen in mineral water. Dark field.
Someone on iNaturist called it out as Philodinidae family belonging to the order Bdelloidea. But I've looked at a lot of pics and don't really agree. I've also searched through The Sphagnum Ponds of Simmelried in Germany book and was disappointed to not find it in there. I haven't checked out some of the online resources yet.
Anyone have a guess? They are rampant in the lichen I rehydrated in mineral water. They are really fun to watch. Like if a rotifer could have a personalty these guys look like they are having fun!
Edit: Maybe it is Philodinidae. It could be a Pleuretra lineata
IQCrew inverted microscope, 200x, iPhone 4x, new Petri dish of lichen in mineral water.
I followed the directions from the Tik Tok video recently shared on how to see tardigrades and I stumbled on this. I thought it was a tardigrade tun I was looking at and it all of a sudden emerged from its stasis. But it doesn't look like a tardigrade at the end. Unless it's some kind of young version that hasn't molted completely.
I actually have several videos of its process over 45 minutes and I might splice those into one video because it was pretty fascinating. I can't believe how lucky I was to catch the whole thing. I really just lingered over it to get the first picture so I could ask on here if it was a tun, and then it moved.
So what is this?
Amscope IQCrew inverted, 100x iPhone 3x, freshwater jarrarium with lichen, moss, and a million new things I can't identify every day!
Sorry, it's a couple of minutes long because it was moving so slowly so I have a few cuts. The disc on the lower left is a mystery to me. I thought it was plant matter until I watched long enough to see it moving on its own. It seems to have absorbed the other round thing and then disappeared. Is it some kind of amoeba?
Ignore the hungry hungry hippos having dinner!