Rotifers invaded my moina culture :-\ (300x magnification)
10 months ago by cybervseas to c/microscopy
Definitely have a long way to go to get better at my microscopy!
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.
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. ðŸ˜
that was the first and last >1 cell organism I ever intentionally scoped.
A few months ago I ended up recording a hydra dying and disintegrating in real time on a flat slide I squished it on 😅
Nice video! Mine tend to look like that too so don't worry too much about your microscopy skills. I have been making more cuts in my videos lately to compensate. If you make a cut just as the camera gets a bit blurry from movement you can make it look like you quickly moved to where you meant to lol.
Though I land firmly on the arts side of things for my videos. I can really respect trying to get really good with the microscope.
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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.
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