Four Amoebas

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Four Amoebas

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I took a sample of water from the bird bath and along with the usual hoards of Haematococcus pluvialis there were a lot of small Amoeba.

Haematococcus pluvialis is around 55 microns across and the Amoeba were around 75 microns long. I don't know if they would eat a whole H. pulvaris but they look like they may have eaten bits of them.

Amoeba - 70 microns - 20X Objective DIC (Stacked and combined)
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Super!!!

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Thanks Carlos.

Here is another composition of what's in the birdbath at the moment.

40X Objective DIC, stacked, composition. Relative size is correct.
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Wow, that second composition is excellent.

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Both are beautiful
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Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Thanks for the comments

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Beautiful.

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Thanks Ralf.

As I had a few sequential images of an amoeba I made an animated gif. File size issues limit the frame number and rate. I'm not sure about it but at least it shows a bit of shape-shifting.


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Very nice

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