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PeglegOS
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Post by PeglegOS »

I had something happen tonight that shook me up a bit.

I had prepared a slide from my hay infusion, and just placed it in the scope. I found a critter and was watching it when I got called to dinner.

I went and ate, then returned to the waterdrop on the slide. I guess the slide dried out a little and lowered the coverslip. There in the fov was the critter, but it didn't look too healthy. Something brown or dark green was oozing out of it in a ling stream. I guess the coverslip crushed the poor thing and pushed whatever it ate out. It, of course, was dead. I tried to rehydrate, but it was too late. I then searched the rest of the slide and found two more critters in the same dismal state. I felt like a murderer, but I did learn not to leave a slide unattended for any lenght of time.
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beetleman
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Post by beetleman »

I don`t know what to tell you...it is all in the name of science and we are all just food in the great circle of life.
Take Nothing but Pictures--Leave Nothing but Footprints.
Doug Breda

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