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Stentorchestra (youtu.be)

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[–] pebbles 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh cool, thanks for sharing! Biofilm is exactly where I tend to find them. I think they need a decent bit of oxygen, and if there is algae then they'll eat the bacteria attracted to algae's oxygen.

My most stentor populated samples were pond samples with a good bit of dirt and leaves that I sat on a shelf for a few days.

Once they've sat you'll see a film start to form at the top that wasn't there before. For me that film was made of really long bacteria all tangled together and tons of other life attached to and living around it.

This video doesn't have stentors, but it is of my thickest biofilm, a lot of stentors were found in the same sample: https://youtu.be/T3Bbg-ObTok

Good luck microbe hunting!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the details!

Biofilm is exactly where I tend to find them Yeah, I got that from the video description :D

This video doesn’t have stentors, but it is of my thickest biofilm, a lot of stentors were found in the same sample: https://youtu.be/T3Bbg-ObTok

That video looks really nice! At first I thought it might be phase contrast, but I see from the description that you got creative. Nice job