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Originally Posted by Stonius
Hours of fun! I never thought I'd be able to get so excited about dirty pond water! :-D
What learning resources have you been using?
I just received a book that has been helping greatly - 'Guide to Microlife' by Kenneth G Rainis and Bruce J Russel.
Have fun!
Markus
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I was up early to nail the observatory floor boards and experience further frustration trying to glue foam bats to the ceiling..because of my leg problem I have to lay on my stomach to hammer nails in the floor...well after 300 of them I again visited the fish pond for a sample. This time I selected a water Lilly leaf which was clearly decomposing so overjoyed I raced back to the van and a cup of green tea and now have spent a couple of hours watching various animals do their thing. I found a rather large worm trying to borrow into some slime, a smaller one that was very active, a few things that looked like fleas and some one celled creatures. There was just so much going on.
My only learning resource is you tube..you know of microbehunter, and there are others er voyage to the micro cosmos? funny I am not sure of the name but it is excellent..plus I have been watching various lectures out of some of the finest universities in the world on cell structure and function etc...some of it is a bit heavy but after a few various things fall into place...I don't need to watch the lecturer so I play them whilst viewing.
I have learnt a great deal in just the last 4 or 5 weeks.
But I really need to take notes and print out some photos of animals I am ,likely to see..a journal to record sessions.
And I will play around for another couple of hours and have a sleep so hopefully I get a clear night..last night looked perfect so I set up and came in made a decent meal but when I went out it was cloudy...so I packed up and looked at some old samples I have..and keep forgetting to get that copper sulphate.
Alex