Water Mite

Olympusman · Post by **Olympusman** » Fri May 16, 2014 3:38 pm

Water Mite Libertia

vasselle · Post by **vasselle** » Fri May 16, 2014 4:30 pm

Very nice

pwnell · Post by **pwnell** » Fri May 16, 2014 7:13 pm

Nice shot of the legs.

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Sat May 17, 2014 1:17 am

Very nice

_Michal_ · Post by **_Michal_** » Sat May 17, 2014 5:21 am

Wonderful photo

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Sun May 18, 2014 4:31 pm

Really nice! The legs on these guys are really tough to get positioned nicely... here they look great!

Olympusman · Post by **Olympusman** » Mon May 19, 2014 10:17 am

Thanks, Charlie. I had two water mites on two slides watching them expire slowly. This one gave me the best result. I have found the 10% grain alcohol technique results in mites, copepods, daphnia, ostracods, etc. do expire very slowly so they don't contract as they die as would happen with Pen-Fix or glutaraldehyde which cause the specimens to constrict all of their extremities.
I just put the slides aside and check in on them every ten minutes or so.

piermicro · Post by **piermicro** » Mon May 19, 2014 11:51 am

Very nice.