David Onfim

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@Ashleygeneralstuff Күн бұрын

Maybe they get "zoomies" like dogs do.

@Ashleygeneralstuff Күн бұрын

😢

@JewelerC Күн бұрын

so cool

@MyMicrobialGarden Күн бұрын

Where did you locate that? What medium were you using to proliferate it?

@davidonfim2381 Күн бұрын

As the description says, I found it in a sample from a freshwater lake. I used a jar to pour water on the sediment around the shore (to suspend some sediment in the water), and then I took a sample of the water. I also put a couple of dead leaves and sticks from the bottom in the jar. Since then it's just been sitting in my windowsill. I believe I specifically took this sample from the sun-facing side of the jar, right at the boundary between the sediment and the water column. This particular lake is a low-nutrient, relatively acidic lake in the New Jersey pine barrens.

@MicroFrogLab 3 күн бұрын

Amazing

@MicroFrogLab 3 күн бұрын

Nice video

@MyMicrobialGarden 3 күн бұрын

Spirillum

@KínhHiểnVi-p2q 6 күн бұрын

góc nhìn mới , cảm ơn ad

@SSFallingTTB 6 күн бұрын

Lmao this is in my recommendations for absolutely no reason. Liked the video for no reason except I found that funny

@davidonfim2381 6 күн бұрын

lol... well, I appreciate the like anyway :P

@Ashleygeneralstuff 7 күн бұрын

First I watched the video and thought "Wow!" then I read the description and thought "Eeeuuugggh!" 😂

@davidonfim2381 7 күн бұрын

lol.... yeah it was super gross. Didn't smell at all though, which surprised me (although I didn't actively try to smell it, so maybe it did smell a bit)

@Krzysztof.stargalleon 8 күн бұрын

Cool video :) It looks like some kind of streptococcus to me.

@Ashleygeneralstuff 10 күн бұрын

I will never get over how small these organisms truly are. I mean here's a perfect example. The cover slip in on thin film of water on the slide - AND STILL this tardigrade is walking upside down on the slip! I HAD to share this on my Facebook and Instagram accounts with a link back to the video of course!

@Ashleygeneralstuff 12 күн бұрын

When I was quite young my parents bought me a microscope (cannot remember if it was Christmas or birthday). Remembering it, it was quite a basic one, it could magnify up to 250x and it used a mirror to direct daylight from below up through the specimen. The problem was that's all my parents did... they didn't really think about showing me how cool a microscope could be. Sure it came with half a dozen prepared slides (feather, fly's wing, petal, and so on), which I looked at... and that was it. I wasn't particularly imaginative, so I don't remember getting soil from the garden, or trying water (although 250x was probably not high enough) and so on. Now I know what I was like as a child, I think if my parents had shown me how fun the microscope could be I would have been fascinated with all the things I could look at. That was around 40-42 years ago. Now I sit here looking at all your videos, and waiting until I can afford a microscope of my own!

@Ashleygeneralstuff 12 күн бұрын

I think what I love with this one is - aside from the amoeba - there are even tinier microbes darting about... it gives weight to the idea that the life in a drop of ditch water is almost infinite. Does the drop of water to them feel as large as the earth to a human being?

@davidonfim2381 12 күн бұрын

There are microbes even smaller than those too. Bacteria are all over the place, but many wouldn't be visible in this video because they're too small. Viruses are even smaller. They are nowhere near that small in relationship to a drop of water though. My cover slip is 20mm x 20mm, or 20000um^2. If we take a hypothetical microbe that is 25um^2 (this amoeba was larger), that makes the cover slip area only 800 times larger. That difference is not even the same as the difference between a human and a small town, it's more like a human in an area the size of a school, or a few city blocks.

@Ashleygeneralstuff 12 күн бұрын

@davidonfim2381 Still... 😲

@Ashleygeneralstuff 12 күн бұрын

What are the different coloured circles within the amoeba?

@davidonfim2381 12 күн бұрын

Good question, I'm not sure. I couldn't tell you what anything in this particular amoeba is. More generally though, you can often see prey at different stages of digestion inside of amoebas. Amoebas also sometimes take in bits of their surrounding (tiny grains of sand and dirt) into their cells, for unknown reasons. They also sometimes have lipid globules, crystals, glycogen bodies, and endosymbionts. You can read more about those on arcella.nl/inclusions

@JewelerC 12 күн бұрын

so cool

@Ashleygeneralstuff 13 күн бұрын

Watching it shows how much of a "vortex" it creates in the water when even quite large organisms are drawn towards it. And how do you measure them?

@davidonfim2381 13 күн бұрын

Yep! I've yet to see anything actually get caught though. My microscope has a touch screen that allows me to just click "measure", set the objective I'm using, and make a line. It then just tells me how long that line is. It's super convenient, although sometimes the touch screen isn't sensitive enough or will detect the touch very slightly to the side where I intended.

@Ashleygeneralstuff 11 күн бұрын

@@davidonfim2381 What microscope are you using? I've looked on Amazon but the ones with touchscreens seem quite basic.

@Ashleygeneralstuff 16 күн бұрын

I have been meaning to ask how big is the drop of water you are viewing? Is it like a capital O or lower case o or bigger or smaller?

@davidonfim2381 14 күн бұрын

It's not a lot, but it is larger. If you use a pipette/eye dropper/etc, it's about 2 drops.

@Ashleygeneralstuff 13 күн бұрын

@@davidonfim2381 It's just the fascination of all this happening in such small drops of water. I know they are exceptionally tiny, but still...! Is there any possible way of showing the droplet before or after viewing what's in it? If I gave you my email would you be happy to send me a pic showing the size of droplet (and perhaps with a coin or something for comparison)? Sorry if this is asking a lot.

@davidonfim2381 13 күн бұрын

@@Ashleygeneralstuff Yeah, it's absolutely amazing how many amazing things there are all around us (and in us, and on us) all the time. Many of them aren't particularly rare or hard to find, but 99.9% of people blissfully go their entire lives without having a clue simply because they're too small to see. I wouldn't mind sending you pics of the droplets, but there are plenty of other channels and websites that will show you this. I don't think youtube will let me link you directly, but if you haven't already, you should check out @Microbehunter. He makes very detailed videos and livestreams where you can learn how he prepares slides, how he cultures certain microbes, the biology of the microbes, etc.

@JewelerC 18 күн бұрын

Very cool!

@chuckles3265 18 күн бұрын

Is this a science thing or a metaphor of life

@ThếGiớiNguyênSinh 20 күн бұрын

wow

@菅井俊郎-f8h 20 күн бұрын

This is not dividing cell, but conjugation pair. Ciliate never divide longitudinally.

@davidonfim2381 20 күн бұрын

Ah, of course! I really should have known that already. I've edited the title, thanks!!

@Ashleygeneralstuff 21 күн бұрын

Just mentioned this video with a screenshot and a link to your account on my Facebook and Instagram accounts. 😊