Paramecium caudatum fed with stained cells

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anne
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Paramecium caudatum fed with stained cells

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Paramecium caudatum, fed with yeast cells,
the cells are stained with Kongo-Red.
Kongo-Red is a pH-indicator, from pH 3,0 to pH 5,2 blue, bigger than 5,2 red.
First an overlock with the 20 lense, some relaxed ones and at least some a little bit pressed ones to show the vacuoles with the cells with the 40 lense.

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Wonderful images and a fascinating experiment! Great stuff.

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Super !

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:smt038 Very nice.
I like #5 best.
Thanks for sharing.

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Bonjour
Superbes images
Cordialement seb
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Nice photos

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Very nice shots Anne - I will have to try feeding paramecium some colourful food in the future.

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Thank you all for the comments! :D :D :D

This was real fun to fed the Paramecium and to see how fast (after seconds) the first cells are inside of them. I have done some brightfield images too, will show them soon.
It works also very well with other ciliats and amöbeas and stentors.
I tried now to stain the cells with Eosin, and it works good too.

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Wooooowww!!
SUPER!

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