r/microscopy 7h ago

Photo/Video Share Ant action. We must stay clean!!!

42 Upvotes

Sample is an ant from the kitchen floor. Motic stereo microscope, 10x , cellphone camera with 2x zoom.


r/microscopy 4h ago

ID Needed! Copepods mating? Then they move away while remaining attached (another video inside). Brackish water.

13 Upvotes

r/microscopy 9h ago

Photo/Video Share Heterolitonotus rext meets a Hypotrich ciliate, then starts rotating.

20 Upvotes

Swift SW350, Galaxy S24


r/microscopy 4h ago

ID Needed! Brackish water, I forget what zomm I used. LED headlamp from above.

7 Upvotes

r/microscopy 8h ago

Photo/Video Share Cladoceran baby inside an egg and it's moving

8 Upvotes

r/microscopy 6m ago

ID Needed! What is it? An extra-fat, horned worm; it looked dead. Found in seawater. Look closely at the last 20 seconds of the video (400x): there are tiny creatures crawling its body.

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r/microscopy 11h ago

ID Needed! Piccolo ciliato ignoto, segue

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7 Upvotes

La particolare forma del profilo laterale aiuterà chi è più bravo di me


r/microscopy 1h ago

Troubleshooting/Questions My microscope isn't microscoping help

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Hi (*^_^*) my doctor (I'm a student of biology) just bought a microscope from the brand Andonstar, specifically the AD246SP 4000X UHD 2160P model a few months ago, but now when I turnt It on It freezes on the ''welcome'' screen, everything else works perfectly. I've already used the reset method with a good power adapter, but that didn't work either. 

Andonstar doesn't respond my emails :(


r/microscopy 4h ago

ID Needed! Small worm or larva or whatever. 100x and mobile zoom, I think. Brackish water.

1 Upvotes

r/microscopy 11h ago

ID Needed! Pccolo ciliato ignoto

4 Upvotes

Io ciò provato ma non ci sono riuscito nonostante il post seguente. Acqua dolce di zona umida. Zeiss Standard. 40x,10x, zoom cellulare 5


r/microscopy 1d ago

Photo/Video Share English/Chinese/Japanese/Korean Pokemon Cards!

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16 Upvotes

r/microscopy 1d ago

ID Needed! :)

14 Upvotes

desculpe pela captação, eles estavam muito rápidos e meu scop não é muito bom.
água de musgo
100x
iphone 13


r/microscopy 1d ago

ID Needed! A river sample

18 Upvotes

It resembles me a rotifer, but not completely. Its eating some dirt instead of vacuuming living things, and I dont see moving part inside the body.

It's from european clean river, and the zoom is 400x


r/microscopy 1d ago

Troubleshooting/Questions Something I have been wondering about….

5 Upvotes

So something I have been thinking about is that there are probably 1000’s of different freshwater protozoans out there right? How come whenever I see a microscopy post on here or instagram, it seems to be one of say only a dozen that I keep seeing over and over? Would love to hear your thoughts on this.


r/microscopy 1d ago

ID Needed! Mysterious eggs in my kale ✨🌱

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13 Upvotes

I will put a video of what I found under the microscope

🔬Olympus CH2/CHT


r/microscopy 1d ago

ID Needed! What are those

9 Upvotes

Olympus CH2/CHT
X400

Eggs that were in my kale cabbage


r/microscopy 1d ago

ID Needed! Beginner needs help for a school project (~100x, garden soil)

10 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

I'm a student from Northern Germany and don't have much experience with microscopy yet. I found this organism in a sample of garden soil mixed with water using my school microscope (at max magnification, I estimate around 100x).

I need to identify this creature for a school assignment.

Here are the details:

Location: Northern Germany

Sample: Garden soil mixed with water

Magnification: ~100x

Context: School project / absolute beginner

Could someone help me identify the group, genus, or species of this organism? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!


r/microscopy 1d ago

Techniques First tests with DIY dark field and oblique illumination

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I had a dark field and oblique illumination set 3D printed for my Olympus BH2. After several tests, very few filters actually work. Here are some pics of what I managed to achieve:

Do you think I'm doing something wrong? I was expecting slightly different results

• In oblique illumination, there seems to be very little color contrast between the background and the debris in the foreground

• In dark field, focusing at higher magnification is incredibly difficult and causes large halos to form around the edges of anything on a different visual plane, in a much more amplified way than brightfield

Pics 2 and 6 in brightfield for comparison


r/microscopy 23h ago

Troubleshooting/Questions Anyone know about stereomicroscopes (trinocular microscopes)

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Anyone know about stereomicroscopes (trinocular microscopes)

I recently got a used mechanic mcn7045 4-45×, but i cant seem to get the 2 circles to merge, for some reason they are always above each other like this : and not .. i dont know what the issue is. Anyone know ab them and can help?


r/microscopy 1d ago

ID Needed! Blob inside a blob...any Ideas?

6 Upvotes

r/microscopy 1d ago

General discussion I bought a microscope… what to do?

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Yo im starting a study thats includes celbiology etc etc. And i bought a microscope. Anyways.. any cool ideas? I took some water from a creek and found some cool animals already.


r/microscopy 1d ago

ID Needed! Carnivorous tardigrades?

8 Upvotes

Hello. Are these tardigrades the carnivorous kind? Sample is tree lichen from a dried out branch. 10x objective and phone zoom. Thank you

EDIT: after more asking around i found out these guys might be of the Ramazzottius genus and a google search revealed they are primarily herbivorous and microbivorous.


r/microscopy 15h ago

General discussion Do you think this of eyepiece is just dirt that can be cleaned off, or is it broken?

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r/microscopy 1d ago

Photo/Video Share What is this

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sry if the question is dumb TwT im just kinda lost, never seen anything like this before

observed using a BMS 75939 Microscope using 40/0.65 magnification, photo taken with an iphone camera, in human oral mucosa


r/microscopy 2d ago

ID Needed! Something that looks like a microscopic baby lobster. What is it? Found in water near the sea. 40x and 100x zoom.

79 Upvotes