Paramecia invasion!

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:34 am

Hi guys,
here some Paramecia that have invaded one of my colture!
All pics taken whit flash lighting!
best
arturo

Brightfield+ pol. a little crossed

Darkfield

DIC obb.16x

DIC obb.25x

Litonotus · Post by **Litonotus** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:14 am

last two are great. what made them to arranage like that?

Mitch640 · Post by **Mitch640** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:35 am

HAHA, it looks like little brushes polishing up your closterium.

Very nice cleaning maids that work for free.

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:26 am

Nice, specially the last one.

Rogelio

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:28 am

Litonotus wrote:last two are great. what made them to arranage like that?

Hi,
i don't know but i think it's the very low illumination (pilot lamp) i need before firing flash...if i try to use the microscope illumination to observe them (whit big amount of ligh), they moving very fast everywhere!
hope you forgive my poor english

best
arturo

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:28 am

Mitch640 wrote:HAHA, it looks like little brushes polishing up your closterium.

Very nice cleaning maids that work for free.

Ha ha..youare right..this is very good!

arturo

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:29 am

RogelioMoreno wrote:Nice, specially the last one.

Rogelio

many thanks Rogelio

Arturo

Greg Gavelis · Post by **Greg Gavelis** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:30 am

Beautiful! It looks like you're building an army.

Litonotus · Post by **Litonotus** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:40 am

Litonotus wrote:what made them to arranage like that?

It was a quite silly question

I was asking about the ciliates and what made them to arrange in a row

nothing important.

Mitch640 · Post by **Mitch640** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:44 am

That's a good observation, about the light. I had noticed something similar about parameciums before, but never put it together. I have also read they are light sensitive, and that may be used as a good way to get sharper images, especially with flash. Lower the light to slow them down, then flash them.

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:35 am

last picture great!

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:54 pm

Mitch640 wrote:That's a good observation, about the light. I had noticed something similar about parameciums before, but never put it together. I have also read they are light sensitive, and that may be used as a good way to get sharper images, especially with flash. Lower the light to slow them down, then flash them.

i observed also other ciliate like Cyclidum are sensitive to the ligth...

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:55 pm

Jacek wrote:last picture great!

i agree with you..i like it very much!
arturo

curt0909 · Post by **curt0909** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:59 pm

Excellent images but the darkfield and DIC are the standouts here.

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:56 am

curt0909 wrote:Excellent images but the darkfield and DIC are the standouts here.

many thanks Curt

Arturo