A Collotheca Rotifer gets its cilia chewed off!

billporter1456 · Post by **billporter1456** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:02 pm

While watching a Collotheca Rotifer that was comfortably lodged within its lorica, I saw a couple of small Lepadella Rotifers swimming around nearby. They seemed to find something edible on the surface of the Collotheca’s lorica. I was really surprised to see them move to the corona of the big Rotifer and start snacking on its long cilia. Now stuff that is new to me may be seen as commonplace to you more experienced microscopists. But just in case you haven’t seen this sort of thing, here’s your chance to do just that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX5kT5a7uws

carlos.uruguay · Post by **carlos.uruguay** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:45 am

Very very interesting!
I had never seen it

_Michal_ · Post by **_Michal_** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:33 am

Great video and very interesting subject.

ralfwagner · Post by **ralfwagner** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:43 am

Thats great and I like the comments within the video.

billporter1456 · Post by **billporter1456** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:28 am

Thanks for the kind words! BTW, I've been told that the small rotifers are actually Colurella, not Lepadella.

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:20 am

Very nice

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 7:45 am

Interesting video with super comments.

Rogelio