The love rotifer

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 4:35 am

I went to Gamboa lake for some samples and found some rotifer colony and a lone rotifer, they look the same species the one that won NSW 2014. Seems that they know about the rotifer that won because the lone rotifer and one of the member of the colony pose (something that is not common) for the pictures.

The solitary rotifer:

Rotifer by Rogelio Moreno G., on Flickr
plan apo 20x/0.75 + 1.5 lens (in the fluorescence slider), DIC, flash, Canon 6D mounted on the front port (2x lens), 60x on sensor

The subject from the colony:

Rotifer by Rogelio Moreno G., on Flickr
plan apo 20x/0.75 + 1.5 lens (in the fluorescence slider), DIC, flash, Canon 6D mounted on the front port (2x lens), 60x on sensor

Rotifer by Rogelio Moreno G., on Flickr
plan apo 20x/0.75 + 1.5 lens (in the fluorescence slider), Darkfield, flash, Canon 6D mounted on the front port (2x lens), 60x on sensor

Rogelio

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 4:39 am

mega !

escocat · Post by **escocat** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:12 am

sebba28 · Post by **sebba28** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:22 am

Wonderful.

Litonotus · Post by **Litonotus** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:43 am

perfect!

carlos.uruguay · Post by **carlos.uruguay** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 6:05 am

Maravilloso!

Pau · Post by **Pau** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:48 am

Really lovely

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:54 am

Excellent

Olympusman · Post by **Olympusman** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 3:20 pm

Beauty!

Mike

discomorphella · Post by **discomorphella** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:02 pm

Just spectacular. These were sandwiched between 2 coverslips?

David

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:08 pm

Thank you very much for your comments.

discomorphella wrote:These were sandwiched between 2 coverslips?

David

David, good question. I normally pick up the specimen from a preti dish and put them in other petri dish with clean water, when I was inspecting the petri dish with clean water I did notice that the solitary rotifer was looking for food at the bottom of the petri dish with the corona almost facing the bottom, I quickly moved it to a clean coverslip (I use coverslip as slide) and did not cover it (to avoid altering its behavior), after a while the rotifer did start to face the corona to the bottom (to my 20x objective), to take the picture I did chase the rotifer because it was moving. Pictures #2 and #3 were sandwiched between 2 coverslips.

Rogelio

vasselle · Post by **vasselle** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:29 am

hello
Just beautiful.
And great work I admire.
Your photos are wonderful.
Sincerely seb

pwnell · Post by **pwnell** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:08 pm

Great work once again.

The love rotifer

The love rotifer

Love rotifer