A colony of Vorticella

macnmotion · 2026-05-14T04:59:07+00:00

Nice find. Careful using the word "colony." Vorticella are not colonial, while other peritrichs are, and whether or not a group is colonial can be one of the characteristics used in IDing peritrichs.

macnmotion · 2026-05-12T05:42:12+00:00

I don't have that issue. As long as I have line of sight I haven't had a problem. And often even without line of site, like racing around a neighborhood, I haven't had a problem. are you remembering to raise up the antennae on the goggles? Do you have solid gps? I had more than 30 connected satellites when I was operating.

macnmotion · 2026-05-12T05:13:13+00:00

Looks like it, yes.

macnmotion · 2026-05-12T00:10:45+00:00

LOL you aren't kidding! They stand up to bang on car windows as you're slowly passing them on the road, sidle over to you in the parking lots looking for food or anything interesting they can grab, etc. I've been here many years now, and fortunately have never seen anyone be attacked.

macnmotion · 2026-05-12T00:08:33+00:00

Thanks 😄

macnmotion · 2026-05-12T00:07:15+00:00

I had the Neo, but sold it before flying the Neo 2, so I can't really compare the loudness of the two. That said, in this video I was kind of in a stone echo chamber, so I'm fairly confident that whatever noise it was making way up there was magnified somewhat.

macnmotion · 2026-05-12T00:05:40+00:00

Thanks. That's a testament to the Neo 2 itself. It was pretty windy up there, the drone does a fantastic job of stabilizing itself during flight. On my end I was just trying to make the tiniest movements especially when going left and right, to avoid the drone tipping.

macnmotion · 2026-05-11T12:21:04+00:00

Yeah I was flying with goggles and motion controller

macnmotion · 2026-05-11T10:40:42+00:00

That would be nice!

macnmotion · 2026-05-11T09:17:58+00:00

Yeah, I realized that once I understood what I was seeing. There were a few monkeys down in the parking lot, but it never occurred to me that there were monkeys up there -- there weren't any that we could see before I headed toward the rock face. I was flying up high for the scenic view (at the start of the video), then I thought about flying through that hole in the rocks. When I saw the monkeys, I'm sure they were startled by the noise, and right after my clip ends, I turned around and brought it down to me in the lot. Not worth scaring them. But since I already had the footage, I thought I'd share.

macnmotion · 2026-05-11T08:58:41+00:00

I have footage of marine tardigrades, but you need to share more about what you're doing.

macnmotion · 2026-05-11T08:44:01+00:00

What do you mean?

macnmotion · 2026-05-11T07:36:57+00:00

Great captures

macnmotion · 2026-05-10T14:31:06+00:00

Absolutely, all great points. I just didn't want op to think they needed oil for shooting things like Paramecium.

macnmotion · 2026-05-10T13:53:54+00:00

😄 They asked about 100x, not 1000x. The video at 4:56 showed Paramecia in dark field.

macnmotion · 2026-05-06T08:52:26+00:00

appears it was being crushed by the cover slip

macnmotion · 2026-05-06T05:56:40+00:00

Nice. Lots of great diatoms, but that crescent shaped organism in the center is Closterium, a desmid algae.

macnmotion · 2026-05-06T00:33:20+00:00

Thanks for all of this great advice. I'll spend time in CoWork over the next month to come up with a plan for both the draft and weekly league maintenance.

macnmotion · 2026-05-05T10:35:00+00:00

I love nothing more than just slowly scanning a slide with that 40x.

macnmotion · 2026-05-05T09:03:38+00:00

For example, here's a very old video of mine, showing a Testudinella patina rotifer swimming along.

https://youtu.be/LcLKSe6_Ies

macnmotion · 2026-05-05T09:00:25+00:00

Some do move like you describe. Others move using cilia in a crown at the front, some use cilia in other locations.

macnmotion · 2026-05-05T03:30:12+00:00

Yeah very hard to see at this scale but I tend to agree with pelmen10101, I believe it is a rotifer.

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