Rotifers

Robert Berdan · Post by **Robert Berdan** » Tue Jul 24, 2018 11:51 am

Hi - I have been visiting ponds a lot this summer and would like to share some photographs of rotifers taken with my DIC microscope. I have also posted an article about Rotifers for those that might like to read more about their biology. http://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com/rotifers.html

I used a Nikon D500 camera body attached to my Zeiss Axioscope, with 10, 20 and 40X plan acrhomat objectives, images were processed in Photoshop and I used free software Digicam control to capture the images to my computer. With some of the images I stacked 4-10 images to increase the depth of field.

There is lots of neat stuff to photograph in the ponds right now - I encountered a Stentor bloom with literally thousands of them in my Petri dish of pond water.

Euchlanis dilatata

Squatinella rostrum

Testudinella patina - nicknamed "Turtle Rotifer"

Platyias quadricornis

Lecane sp?

Lepadella ovalis

Saul · Post by **Saul** » Tue Jul 24, 2018 1:05 pm

Impressive, thanks for sharing !

vasselle · Post by **vasselle** » Tue Jul 24, 2018 4:15 pm

Bonjour
Superbes images
Merci pour le partage
Cordialement seb

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Tue Jul 24, 2018 11:32 pm

Super !

Beatsy · Post by **Beatsy** » Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:20 am

Really nice images, the "natural colour" DIC ones especially. Fab!

I've rather neglected pond samples so far this year (because: macro with scanner lenses), but this has served as inspiration and a gentle kick up the rear to get on and do some

Thanks.

Smokedaddy · Post by **Smokedaddy** » Wed Jul 25, 2018 8:29 am

Outstanding set of images Robert!

Olympusman · Post by **Olympusman** » Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:45 pm

Very nice images

Mike

Sumguy01 · Post by **Sumguy01** » Sat Jul 28, 2018 1:34 pm

Very nice set.
Thanks for sharing.