Cozy Community of Salt Water Ciliates
May 10, 2021 16:23:25 #
Don Schaeffer
Loc: Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LhxVJ-k45w
I took a sizable sample from the salt water aquarium and carefully picked the content of my microscope slide to include a tiny island of algae fiber (in fact I drew two samples today). The dominant ciliate now is a small oval-shaped creature with cilia all around its bubble body. These tended to gather in group, clustering around the algae fibers. Are they really social and communal (bacteria are)?
I took a sizable sample from the salt water aquarium and carefully picked the content of my microscope slide to include a tiny island of algae fiber (in fact I drew two samples today). The dominant ciliate now is a small oval-shaped creature with cilia all around its bubble body. These tended to gather in group, clustering around the algae fibers. Are they really social and communal (bacteria are)?
May 11, 2021 07:37:04 #
May 11, 2021 09:35:30 #
May 11, 2021 10:56:50 #
DougS
Loc: Central Arkansas
Interesting! Wonder how many critters similar to these, I/we have ingested. Countless no doubt, lol.
May 11, 2021 11:27:17 #
DougS wrote:
Interesting! Wonder how many critters similar to these, I/we have ingested. Countless no doubt, lol.
Thanks, Doug!
Just before lunch.
~Lee
May 11, 2021 12:02:35 #
Don Schaeffer
Loc: Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
I don't think you should worry about it, being a god as you are.
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