Pond Water Crustacean

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

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• pond
• water
• organisms
• crustacean
• ostracod
• microscopy
• microscope
• microscopic
• St
• Olaf
• College

[orglancs]

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?

[MorgannaEirisa]

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

[Wowpooop]

i could watch these all day!

[MorgannaEirisa]

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

[PondWaterWorld]

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. =^)

[surelytempting]

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

[cosmokramer41]

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