Amazing, what do you use to view and capture the video?
I found a variety of nematodes in a compost sample last night:
https://nostr.build/av/f24b39a9ffe5609a283838e3bf44746c07db7e99c9fb4787b04691ee41e54c9c.mp4
You can see this one swallowing. I got to see it poop too, but didn't get it on video. Nematode poop is one way that the soil food web cycles nutrients to make them plant available. Nematodes can eat 10,000 bacteria per day. They excrete the excess nutrients from the bacteria in a plant-available form.
https://nostr.build/av/436b65d03ead3ea32963aab224512122374fd9b91179886ce0a4bc7d3602a36b.mp4
https://nostr.build/av/0cf716e57c9f523937414d8c70b22de0f0ed674a4201bdb5451ccbc137da3fab.mp4
Seeing three different kinds of nematodes in a single drop from a compost sample is a good sign. This compost sample had lots of protozoa and fungi too. It was a little low on flagellates, and the organic matter wasn't fully decomposed. Still, I'm very impressed with it for being only four months old and never turned.
#soilfoodweb #compost #permies #permaculture #grownostr
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Trinocular microscope, various adapters and a DSLR camera with live view and HDMI output to a monitor. I record the video from the monitor screen with my phone. I'll try direct capture when I can get another HDMI cable. Not cheap or simple but the video quality is way better than those overpriced USB microscope cameras.
Yes, I have one of those usb ones and it's shit. I've got some basic but decent monocular microscopes, I might get a phone adaptor for one of those. Great videos, thanks for sharing.
I did some freehand recordings with my phone through the eyepiece and they were good. The hardest part was holding the phone in the right spot so I bet an a adapter would work well.