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microorganism identification - (May/24/2015 )

Hello! I would need some help identifying microorganisms from a sample of water from Sphagnum moss. It's a just-for-fun, amateur microscopy trip that I took with my daughter a few time ago, and I ended up posting it on Youtube, but it'd be awesome if I could pinpoint some of the microorganisms in the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA8S2a0ooCY

It was suggested to me that 0:33 is C. elegans; and I guess that 0:40 is some ciliate?

Any help is welcome, thank you!

-r.rosati-

it looks like a nematode , thats pretty sure, but whether its C. elegans or another one? Who knows.

The ciliate, yeah, I think so too.

 

What magnification did you use? And you published it? How do you mean?

-pito-

Is 0:47 Carteria crucifera? I read Carteria are present in Sphagnum moss.

-r.rosati-

pito on Sun May 24 20:00:47 2015 said:

it looks like a nematode , thats pretty sure, but whether its C. elegans or another one? Who knows.

The ciliate, yeah, I think so too.

 

What magnification did you use? And you published it? How do you mean?

I'm sorry, I meant I "posted" it on Youtube. Lost in translation. My bad. I actually don't know how I could write "published" there. I feel kind of embarrassed now.

-r.rosati-

r.rosati on Sun May 24 20:03:09 2015 said:

Is 0:47 Carteria crucifera? I read Carteria are present in Sphagnum moss.

 

It sure does look like it..

But I am not an expert on this.

 

-pito-

Right at the beginning - Rotaria, right?

-r.rosati-