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Old 19-12-2014, 06:09 PM
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Best $20 I've spent in a long time.

I've been keen to buy a microscope for a while now, but funds being what they are I settled for an el cheapo digital microscope.
And WOW.
I bought this one. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/271581868...84.m1497.l2649

And here some video of what I found in pond water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ5l...&feature=share

I'm going to keep on searching to find my holy grail, a tardigrade
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Old 19-12-2014, 06:24 PM
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Wow, truly fascinating (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwpzi199R8k) and an interesting life-form at the end of your video...well interesting movement. Goodluck in your search.
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Old 19-12-2014, 06:27 PM
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You have to be happy with that.
Great buy excellent work
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Old 19-12-2014, 06:52 PM
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I'm going to keep on searching to find my holy grail, a tardigrade [/QUOTE]


Took me around a year after I bought my Olympus to bag my first Tardigrade.

Went in search of moss etc., out in the bush, but in the end it came from my own gutter!
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20$ well spent

Wonderful -gotta get me one of those!!
I saw Celestron are making them and they are advertised on FLO website in the UK.
Is that first creature the famous predatory Caddis fly Larvae?
The rest are great, remind me to show all the travellers in the clinic and impress on them the purity of some water!!
Its just magnificent that this is going on beneath our noses.
talking of gutters- I was impressing to my Daughter that only certain mosses and lichen grow in clean air, showing her a small example on the pavement outside our house. I then cleaned our neglected gutters out and was pulling great slabs of them out!! Like a bloody cricket pitch it was.
Cheers
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NB You should probably share the drivers secrets as I reckon you have inspired a few people to get one of these...
Maybe a new thread... Macro and Micro?
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Old 19-12-2014, 09:53 PM
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Wow n very interesting.

I think I'll have to look at pond water with my digital microscope.

Did your microscope come with measuring software? Mine did. Very comprehensive. Needs to be calibrated of course which isn't too hard, just need to decipher the wnglish grammar.
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The disc containing the driver and software was blank.
So I had to forage for something else.
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Old 20-12-2014, 09:21 AM
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May sound totally rank, but you ought to try looking at a swamp or a settling pond.... Micro universe is pretty amazing as well. I also build a pond ecosystem in a big bottle. You can watch, and sample, ecosystems in times of boom and bust. Excellent teaching resource.
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Old 20-12-2014, 02:51 PM
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Firstly I thought it was Sydney tap water
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So I guess you changed your mind about digital microscopes!

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Old 20-12-2014, 06:33 PM
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I thought tardigrade was a brand of microscope you were longing for jjj

thank goodness for the artificial intelligance that is google saving me once again

what and amazing little creature !
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Old 20-12-2014, 08:27 PM
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I have been looking at getting one of these from aliexpress

so I'm happy to see the results u got.
I want it for fungi spores and this might be the solution.
Cheers - Trev
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