Microbes of old wood

[@ladycircumnavigator]

Oliver, Would you consider doing a video based on identifying ciliates, flagellates and other microbes based on their type of movement? I find few references to movement as many are identified as dead/ stained organisms but I enjoy watching them alive on a slide. This might be useful to other amateurs who enjoy watching pond microbes.

[@websurfer5772]

And we come here to watch you present this material, microbehunter. You're a cool dude. I like it when you discuss the limits of microbiology and help us discern the difference between what is hypothetical and what is definitely provable. So can people just use bottled spring water?

[@Microbehunter]

Yes, bottled spring water (no added CO2) can be used to soak the wood (I assume this is what you meant). Tap water also works, but sometimes it is chlorinated, which is not good.

[@websurfer5772]

@@Microbehunter Cool. Thanks.

[@sannee3715]

Danke Oliver, das du dir die Mühe gemacht hast, das Video vorher aufzunehmen. Es ist schön, regelmäßig die Videos zu sehen, auch wenn du mal keine Zeit für den Livestreem hast. Danke für deine Arbeit

[@Microbehunter]

Ebenfalls danke für nette Feedback!

[@nickfasfasd]

Thank you, very cool video!

[@cesurkarakus209]

Im new to this hobby and learned a lot from you! Thank you!

[@VR_Wizard]

@Microbehunter I would love to see you visit a microscope manufactury. Maybe zeiss or olympus. Talking nerdy talk about the latest research what customers use these modern microscopes today. Or you visiting a university and looking at the high end microscope. We can not get those microscopes ourself but I think your viewers would love it and you might also enjoy it. I would be very curious to see Atomic force, electron microscopes or flurocent microscopes in action. Maybe the universities can let you know when a experiment starts that is suitable for youtube not all experiments are so nice to look at. Also Universities should in theroy be open to share their knowladge so you might run into open doors there.

[@Microbehunter]

Yes, I am also thinking about this. I do know someone who has access to an electron microscope, maybe it's possible for me to visit it.

[@dianekelley6310]

In my collecting local lake water I have encountered very mobile amoeba. Some move so quickly that at higher magnification I am having to move the stage quickly to keep up. Have you experienced these speedy amoeba and can you speculate as to why the increased speed? Mine were ingesting diatoms and expelling them whole without digesting. Thanks for isolating microbes from the dead wood. I was surprised to get rotifers from the left over water from orchid bark since I thought the bark was sterilized. Am happy to learn the reason for the microbes accumulating at the edge of the coverslip -O2 - silly me, I thought they sensed a way out from being squeezed 🤪. I have had round worms ‘escape’ when my algae sample lifted the slip too high.

[@judyb1539]

Cool!

[@franciscopiconmartin9889]

Buenos dias, kisiera felicitarte por tus clases de microbiologia y microscopia ke son muy completas y por favor sige tradu ciendo al castellano, gracias por tus enseñansas , ke me gustaron tanto ke boy, tres o cuatro años y 3 microscopios 2 introductorios y otro mas elevado en calidad y precio pero merece muxo lapena , sin mas me despido, orgulloso de tenerte por profesor...un saludo y suerte

[@Microbehunter]

Hola y gracias. La traducción la hace KZbin automáticamente, por lo que en el futuro podrás leer también traducciones en español (no hablo español).

[@falbala435]

Hi, methylene blue is a known remedy that kills parasites to heal the body from many diseases. But I don't understand, when you use it to enhance contrast I can see on your videos it kills white blood cells. That's strange, since it heals the body it shouldnt kill those helping cells. It makes me reconsider taking methylene blue as a remedy (it was very often used in the past by our ancestors with great success). Thanks for your videos they are great and you are a great teacher too.

[@alku6576]

Great job. I've been watching your videos for a few years I'd like to find something about spirulina, I'm trying to grow it myself, but I'm afraid to eat it. When it's 9 or 10 PH can there be something poisonous??

[@rezzer7918]

Microscopist Bacteriologist Analytical Chemist using high-resolution Gas Chromatography with Flame Ionization Detection 😎

[@Crumbed304]

I'ts been a long time since i watched ur videos, and i got a quest for u. Have you ever found Micrometeorites, Theyre a litte bit bigger than a human hair but you can find them in ur gutter use a magnet to make the Odds better I hope you do this quest of mine, Goodluck!