While I was doing cleanup on this shot, my wife, who was fifteen feet away in our home office at her desk, said "That looks like fission." Whoa.

Tried a nitric acid wash by putting several drops of 90% Nitric Acid in a small specimen of pond water. Most notably, it does not completely destroy or bleach chlorophyll.

Very nice series. A difficult subject to light. Good job.

Mike

Nice series!

Mike

Very nice images and a nice find.

Mike

Pinnularia
Stauroneis
Camphylodiscus hibernicus
Gyrosigma

I don't know what happened to the images, but here we go again. Amphora and Amphora fission. Muriatic Amphora 1.jpg Amphora fission Muriatic.jpg Diatom showing bleaching of chromoplasts Diatom Muriatic.jpg Odontinium Muriatic odontinium.jpg Amoeba test. The acid does not compromise the cement in the...

Been away from the scope last week since I had a cataract procedure for my left eye with the right eye coming up next week. Quite an experience, but it's mostly the problems of having a new and improved eye and a marginal eye. Anyway, it gave me some time to experiment with acid wash of pond water. ...

Been away from the scope last week since I had a cataract procedure for my left eye with the right eye coming up next week. Quite an experience, but it's mostly the problems of having a new and improved eye and a marginal eye. Anyway, it gave me some time to experiment with acid wash of pond water. ...

Very nice. It does'nt even look like epi illumination.

Mike

Nice set, especially considering it is a live specimen.

Mike

Nice set!

Mike

These all look pretty soft.

Mike