I thought amoebae were blobby.
Microscopy
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Ertiocx
Carnivore
Centropyxis amoeba at 1000x magnification, 16x speed:
You can see cytoplasmic streaming as well as a bunch of contractile vacuoles pumping water.
1000x brightfield:
You can just barely make out some of the crystals that make up the shell. They look like geometric patterns of tiny black dots.
You can see cytoplasmic streaming as well as a bunch of contractile vacuoles pumping water.
1000x brightfield:
You can just barely make out some of the crystals that make up the shell. They look like geometric patterns of tiny black dots.
Who are the ones zooming by?
Ertiocx
Carnivore
No idea, unfortunately. I cleaned my nep water trays today, so I took a blob of the tray slime and stuck it under a coverslip. There're tons of little critters in it. Here's a video:
200x, Here's a still image of one of the zoomy things in case anybody knows what it is:
It moves extremely quickly. It has cilia along its length that it uses to swim, so it doesn't move the way something like a nematode/worm would.
200x, Here's a different unidentified worm-thing:
You can see one of these at 4:29 in the video above. This one's got an obvious pharynx/gut so it's multicellular. It has small tufts of hair along the length of its body so maybe it's a segmented worm of some kind? It has a cluster of red cells anound its anus. No idea TBH.
Some of the things I can sort of identify:
200x, 2x Chaetonotus and 1x Paramecium:
200x, A nematode and a ciliate of some sort.
200x, Another ciliate of some sort:
200x, A nematode (left), a heliozoa (top middle) and a long reddish paramecium (right).
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Looks like my neighborhood.