▲ 5 r/microscopy
Red hypotrich digesting some smaller ciliates and algae
Swift SW350, Galaxy S24
u/Thrawn911 — 14 hours ago
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Euplotes - A microscopic vacuum cleaner eating other microbes (compilation)
u/Thrawn911 — 3 days ago
Blepharisma, one of the rare microbes who produce pigments
u/Thrawn911 — 2 days ago
▲ 240 r/labrats
For around a week, I managed to have a culture of the deadliest unicellular predator, Lacrymaria. Since then, they exterminated the sample's whole paramecia population, then "died out". Here are the three clips I managed to record of them eating paramecia
u/Thrawn911 — 7 days ago
▲ 9 r/microscopy
Stenostomum flatworm eats a bunch of ciliates
Swift SW350, Galaxy S24
u/Thrawn911 — 7 days ago
▲ 10 r/microscopy
Is it possible that hypotrichs are immune to the lacrymaria's attack? While they can easily kill paramecia, even though they can use trichocysts for defense, it seems like lacrymaria can't even hurt the hypotrichs at all.
Swift SW350, Galaxy S24
u/Thrawn911 — 8 days ago
▲ 8 r/microscopy
Stentor with a U-turn in its body
Swift SW350, Galaxy S24, either 100x or 200x magnification, I don't remember
u/Thrawn911 — 9 days ago
▲ 74 r/microscopy
I recorded this 15 minutes ago. He's still spinning
Swift SW350, Galaxy S24
u/Thrawn911 — 9 days ago
Dileptus - The unicellular creature who has toxic organelles called toxicysts in its trunk-like body part called the proboscis. Here's a compilation of the moments I managed to record them catch their prey.
u/Thrawn911 — 10 days ago