“At first they went away from the bait ball and weren’t interested in it at all. Now they are swimming toward it! Look at how they’re eating!! They’re taking off huge chunks and leaving holes!” As we watched the predators feeding, we were filled with awe. Nature is so cool!
“Look, Mommy! Look at the holes they left! There’s less and less. You can see where they swam through! They’re swimming around and around. They are swirling around and swimming in at all angles! It’s a feeding frenzy!!”
Johann watched and recorded what he saw through the microscope after I added a drop of dyed yeast to a sample of paramecia. He had a fantastic afternoon viewing all the live protozoa cultures we ordered. His favorites were the ciliates: paramecia and stentor. Those paramecia are voracious eaters!
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Cool! I’ve never seen a paramecia … at least to the best of my knowledge. Glad you are enjoying the microscope — there’s a whole new world that it can open up, Johann!
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