microscope? Pod site update!

[thejrc]

Alright all the podculture site has been updated and changed to whack out some junk and clean it up a bit!

I even plugged SCMAS (yaaay) new color scheme (except for the blog) and an updated entry in the blog that I plunked in just a few minutes ago. Pods are doing well and tonight are giving me much needed stress releif after a long long string of workdays. aint life grand.

On to the question.... does anyone by chance happen to have a microscope.... cheezy or not (as cheeze is better than no) that I could borrow for a while? I remember having one with a chemistry set as a kid, dont really need anything fancy just something I can plop these guys under for closer examination. I'm trying to get an exact ID as well as see if I cant find identifiers for health and feeding. That and amuse myself watching these guys all blown up monster size he he.

I'll have a better batch of pods for the august meeting, and perhaps someday know enough to actually give a talk.... heh who woulda thought me an expert on something.....

 

[Caleb Kruse]

My family has a pretty good microscope, but I'm using it alot right now. If nobody else has one I can bring it to a meeting.

 

[thejrc]

I just might take you up on that sometime, Reefkoi offered for me to come over and use a fairly serious one he has as well! Soon as I have time I'll get an idea of what I'm looking for and probably swing by there. Though one at a meeting for everyone to look at things like pods, various worms and what not would be an interesting idea.

 

[reefkoi]

That would be cool, let me know and I'll bring the scope with me to a meeting.

 

[Huhhhhh]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10433231#post10433231 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefkoi
That would be cool, let me know and I'll bring the scope with me to a meeting.

Let's do that at my house at the next meeting since I don't have anything ineteresting to show except maybe doing a fast water change.

 

[reefkoi]

ok no problem

 

[lfduty]

I got various worms I will try and get to bring and maybe 2 nude's to

 

[reefkoi]

Lin, the scope starts at 100x mag. You cant look at a 3 dimensional object like a nudi or a worm, that would be a disecting scope. This has to have the object sandwiched with water between a glass plate and a glass cover.
It's for looking at parasites and other objects you really can't see with the naked eye.
I wish I also had the type to look at large bugs and whatnot, that would be fun!
Chris

 

[lfduty]

O i see What about a flat worm will that work

 

[reefkoi]

yeah I think a f/w will work, the view may get distorted on the edges but that would be cool to look at.

 

[thejrc]

he he glad theres a topic all of a sudden, perhaps some phyto examination as well?

 

[reefkoi]

Watching phyto will be about as fun as watching paint dry
I hear the cells don't move at all.
I'd love to see some live redbugs if someone has some to donate

 

[Caleb Kruse]

Bring some nudi's lin. At least on my scope, they look kinda cool. Heres a pic of a zoa eating nudi.

 

[reefkoi]

Jeez, I hope all these parasites don't find their way into Tims tank, we may need a quarantine area for all this:lol:

 

[ReefJerk]

I would love to see that ZEN eating a palythoa under a microscope. Now, that would be really nice.

 

[thejrc]

***considers changing his tagline to "spark something weird" ***

Managed to find someone with a 80x dissection scope along with camera mount and digital camera.... I'm trying to talk him outta the thing for a day or so. It'd be pretty slick to check the critters in 3d and record the whole spiel. That and it's got enough room to plop a frag on there for examination!

 

[reefkoi]

Now that would be very cool!!!!!!!!!!!