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This was crazy. Coming up the neck there is so much chaos and what I wasn't expecting was the microbes already on the attack.
Above videos you can see them finishing off the inside of the larger cells. Here they are attaching and attacking all sorts of things and the rapid chaotic dance of, again, my kids call bugs flying around.
Their last meal before falling into the depths of the collection cup. I don't recall seeing any of these larger worms alive down there in the sludg .
Above videos you can see them finishing off the inside of the larger cells. Here they are attaching and attacking all sorts of things and the rapid chaotic dance of, again, my kids call bugs flying around.
Their last meal before falling into the depths of the collection cup. I don't recall seeing any of these larger worms alive down there in the sludg .
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But who's under attack. The wriggling chaos was impossible to focus on but in this video you can see some stopped with those cute little colorful microbes sucking the life out of everything.
Longer but some really cool stuff pops up through out.
Longer but some really cool stuff pops up through out.
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Heres a couple nice images of the different shapes and morphology of bacteria
Got those from this site which is a good quick read on bacteria and it's growth.
http://classroom.sdmesa.edu/eschmid/Lecture4-Microbio.htm
So, my guess is the tiny clear like worms wriggling around I was seeing were vibrio type bacteria.
Which makes since
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrio
Got those from this site which is a good quick read on bacteria and it's growth.
http://classroom.sdmesa.edu/eschmid/Lecture4-Microbio.htm
So, my guess is the tiny clear like worms wriggling around I was seeing were vibrio type bacteria.
Which makes since
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrio
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Another cool site showing up close of the vibrio and the coccus which is what I assume those cute little color changing spheres are a type of.
http://classes.midlandstech.edu/carterp/courses/bio225/chap04/lecture2.htm
Which also describes two other shapes from earlier. The larger stiffer cork screw like organism and the lighting filament like cork screw one.
"Spirilla have a helical shape and fairly rigid bodies.
Spirochetes have a helical shape and flexible bodies. Spirochetes move by means of axial filaments, which look like flagella contained beneath a flexible external sheath. "
http://classes.midlandstech.edu/carterp/courses/bio225/chap04/lecture2.htm
Which also describes two other shapes from earlier. The larger stiffer cork screw like organism and the lighting filament like cork screw one.
"Spirilla have a helical shape and fairly rigid bodies.
Spirochetes have a helical shape and flexible bodies. Spirochetes move by means of axial filaments, which look like flagella contained beneath a flexible external sheath. "
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Thanks. The 14 minute long video is what i found to be one of the most fascinating. It was closer up a bit more and clear at 2500x. I was very surprised to see them changing colors. You can still see that in the video too.
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