Of course I do have a child microscope, but it now has dirty non-washable lens, ugly green lens and light colour with scrached slide glass. So i think it would be obviously better rather than trying to look through this weak-light "100-600-1200x" child scope, where "600" seems to be real 200-250 and on "1200" it's impossible to get the focus.
A stereo microscope (or dissection microscope) is the tool of choice when you want to view larger critters that have some three-dimensionality, unlike seemingly flat microbes on a slide. If you have a medical school in your area, look there first!!!
I definitely have a few patches that have developed in my sand bed. Under the microscope the cells are TINY (approx. 10 um) and motionless as you describe. They are embedded in a thick mucus. They don't seem to be spreading rapidly but just wondering if you've ever heard of these becoming a problem in people's tanks?
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I recently starting culturing my own tetra phytoplankton culture. I currently have two cultures that have been inoculated from different phyto seeds. The first culture I have going looks like your typical Tetraselmis when under a microscope (~500X magnification) swimming fast, changing...
What is the minimum power needed in a microscope to properly identify your dinos? I’m no pro. But I’ve been searching for Dino and cyano identification. Seems like most people are talking 400 magnification.