Egg sac under microscope

[babyshark24]

Got a microscope for my birthday, super cool to look at tank stuff under! Found a few clutches of bladder snails, here's the pics. They're sitting on elodea leaves.

I also have pics of filter media under the scope- it's like a jungle in there. Might post that if people like the snails




This is a significantly younger clutch, you can see how they are less developed.

 

[Mamastacia3]

Very cool! Would love to see the media “jungle!”

 

[Troy0714]

Got a microscope for my birthday, super cool to look at tank stuff under! Found a few clutches of bladder snails, here's the pics. They're sitting on elodea leaves.

I also have pics of filter media under the scope- it's like a jungle in there. Might post that if people like the snails
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This is a significantly younger clutch, you can see how they are less developed.
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That looks really cool! i would also like to see the filter media lol, also if you have algae in your tanks look at that too!

 

[Fisheye]

Happy Birthday!! Would love to know more about your microscope and how you are getting images to post. Yes please filter media pics.

 

[babyshark24]

Breaking news! A baby just hatched! I was binging criminal minds and looking at em every few minutes, it happened so fast I didn't get pics!
This is the biggest one, I'd expect the others to be on their way today. I'm keeping a close eye on everyone so that I can get footage of the next hatch!! Also I'm watching them to make sure the older one won't pull a garden snail and eat his younger siblings in the egg...

 

[Mhamilton0911]

How are you getting the pictures from the microscope?! Is a camera integrated into it??

 

[e_watson09]

Wow! Super cool to see! Thanks for sharing

 

[babyshark24]

I just press my phone camera onto one of the lens to get the photo! You can get little camera attachments for it apparently- I might do that later because it's so hard to focus it (takes 20+ shots to get one good one) and the images need to be cropped down a lot to get a good view. I'm doing a water change today so I'll get some of the filter media jungle to look at...

 

[MissPanda]

I just press my phone camera onto one of the lens to get the photo! You can get little camera attachments for it apparently- I might do that later because it's so hard to focus it (takes 20+ shots to get one good one) and the images need to be cropped down a lot to get a good view. I'm doing a water change today so I'll get some of the filter media jungle to look at...

I thought you were using one of those microscopes for camera phones ! I seen them on Amazon and was wondering if they actually worked. Haha your pictures still turned out good though. They look so cute up close.

 

[SM1199]

I just press my phone camera onto one of the lens to get the photo! You can get little camera attachments for it apparently- I might do that later because it's so hard to focus it (takes 20+ shots to get one good one) and the images need to be cropped down a lot to get a good view. I'm doing a water change today so I'll get some of the filter media jungle to look at...

As a biology graduate who had to take hundreds if not thousands of microscope photos through my phone, my best advice is to press your phone camera onto the lens, get it in focus, and then slowly back it away. It enlarges your field of view to how you would see it with your eyes. The fuzzy edge is what you're able to see with your phone pressed up, and the sharp halo-type ring way out around that is the field of view you could have if you backed it up just a tad. Great photos!!

Edit: Here's an example of what you can do with just a microscope and your phone camera. It takes practice but it's well worth it! Our biology department's special microscope cameras actually didn't even take as good of photos as the camera on my dinky old Android did.