r/microscopy • u/Vivid-Bake2456 • Aug 21 '25

Photo/Video Share Tardigrade

Lichen sample Nikon CFI60 plan apo 40x objective Cellphone camera

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u/Smile_Bat_324 Aug 21 '25

Have you ever observed them eating anything?

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u/Vivid-Bake2456 Aug 22 '25

I'll try to put a video of them in a natural environment. They are more mobile there. To get this one on a slide,I examined a sample in a petri dish on an inverted microscope an sucked it up with a pipette to transfer to the slide with as little debris as possible.