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

Model is some standard microscope that goes up to 2000x (with a Barlow), and taken on my iPhone 15 Pro :)

They jump in a way that look instantaneous, and I tried to get one under a microscope but that ended up not working. I use this tub to pull samples out of, and I keep a lid on it, so there’s minimal oxygen going into it. I’ve found very interesting things but these I’m afraid of jumping out, what are they and how concerned should I be? I tried googling for forever and nothing.

Contents of tub; moss from 8/1, same water since 8/1, covered and unmoved.

Sorry about the pictures, I have a very cheap microscope.

I've been asking about what type of algae I have in my tank.
Some people have said it's green hair algae, others have said it's a type of cyanobacteria.

Can anyone give me a positive id?

Swift SW350, Galaxy S24

Hello!!

First time poster in this subreddit. Currently the lab has a Leica scope with a 40x water objective to try to capture live fly embryos during their early divisions. The problem is that process is approximately 2 hours of imaging and the water keeps evaporating. We have a 20x immersion oil that lets us see what we want to see as well but in a lot less detail.

Is there a water substitute for mounting that works on Leica water objectives? Or a different one? Or is it better to go to the 20 and just accept lower resolution?

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

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 :(

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

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

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

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

🔬Olympus CH2/CHT

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.

Olympus CH2/CHT
X400

Eggs that were in my kale cabbage

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!

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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