Pond Water Crustacean

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Uploaded by on Jan 18, 2010

A close up video of a type of microscope pond crustacean called an ostracod.

Taken with an ImagingSource microscopy camera on a Zeiss microscope at 100x magnification with the program Image Control 3.0

Thanks to St. Olaf College for the equipment

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  • Beautiful! Thanks for filming these for us. I could watch them all day, too. You find them in almost any sample of standing water, don't you?

  • @orglancs I'm sure you could find them in most pond water samples. I got this from a scummy fish tank.

  • i could watch these all day!

  • @Wowpooop I actually did watch them all day for a while, they're so intriguing.

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  • This isn't an ostracod. This is a cladoceran, probably a Bosmina. At least, that's what it looks like to my ill-informed eye. =^)

  • haha they're all "wtf why am i stuck under this cover slip". poooor little critters

  • amazing how different types of organisms are living in our water and we don't even know it!

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