I am posting these stills and video as a poor record of this rare amoeba, although my aquarium now seems to be full of them. He is very small, only 25 to 30µm in body length, but his flagella is at least 7 times his body length, but unfortunately, it does not show up well in the video and not at all in the stills. He was also very hard to keep in focus and in the frame, as he was constantly changing depth, if not position.
So, such as they are, here are the video and stills.
http://youtu.be/T5RXKH6rGhY
1. Brightfield using a Nikon 40x DL with a BF Fliptop condenser.
2. Same lens, cropped some.
Mastigamoeba
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Mastigamoeba
Last edited by Mitch640 on Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.