Tokophrya!

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:13 am

Hi to all,
here some pics of an Acineta gen Tokophrya i think!
i found this in my acquarium!
object. 25x - 40x Nomarki DIC Zeiss. canon a540is

below is the link of a video of this kind of organisms that i got two years ago..it was 68min lenght and i accelerate it to make visible feeding of this Suctoria organisms:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pSuCa080Ic

best
arturo

Mitch640 · Post by **Mitch640** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:03 am

Wow, that thing just sucked the life out of him. Didn't leave much. Very nice that you could see the protoplasm going down the tube. Good catch.

fpelectronica · Post by **fpelectronica** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 10:10 am

Nice and informative video
Francisco

john sp. · Post by **john sp.** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:10 pm

I haven't watched it through a second time to confirm what I think I was seeing, but it looked to me that as the cilia separate from the "prey", you can see them swim off by themselves.

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 8:06 am

many thanks guys,
really impressive to see it feeding..
best
arturo