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February-05

Is it the Blob from Outer Space. . . . .

Not really, but it does look like one if you are under a microscope. These are called Naked Amoebae or if they are very large, Giant Amoebae. They almost always indicate a high BOD loading to a system, whether you are running a high F/M or it may mean your system just got hit with a high BOD loading recently.

Although they look very pretty, watch out, well only if you are a microscopic higher life form. They are deadly, they surround higher life forms that swim by and engulf their prey. Nice huh- violence even under the microscope- eat or be eaten, oh well, It was amazing and a weird experience to watch to watch them move, although you have to have patience. They do move very, very slowly . . . ..

We do have some really interesting videos of these, but they are too large to load on a website. They are one megabyte for each second. Some of the videos were 20-30 seconds, so you can see how big the files would get. You may contact us for copies of the videos if you are interested.

These photomicrographs were taken from a wastewater sample. Most of the objectives used were 100x, 400x and 1000x.

Come take a closer look at the amazing world under the microscope!

Here is a sample at 40x you can see tons of amoebae present	the jelly like protoplasma streams all over and helps the amoebae move 1000x
	Again, here is a sample with tons of naked amoebae
400x

Phase Contras





	Here is a series of photos showing an amoeba attacking a stalked ciliate


Here one is stained


Remember, this is all in one drop of water on a slide under the microscope !!!

you can see in this series how they move and change shape and structure as they glide or "stream" around

1000x Bright Field

Below are the free swimming ciliates close up

You never know what you will find under the microscope. . . .

If the presence of amoebae means young sludge or recent high BOD loading- how should you adjust your process controls?

One way is to adjust your RAS or Wasting- if you do not have that capability- you can always supplement with Bioaugmentation cultures.

Want to see more of the Mystery Bug- videos and photos

Mystery Bug 9-04 Mystery Filament of the Month 9-04 Mystery Filament of the Month 10-04

Mystery Bug 10-04 Mystery Bug-11-04 Mystery Bug-12-04 Mystery Bug-1-05

Mystery Bug-2-05 Mystery Bug-3-05 Mystery Bug-4-05 Mystery Bug-5-05

Mystery Bug-6-05 Mystery Bug-7-05 Mystery Bug-8-05

Mystery Bug-9-05 Mystery Bug-10-05 Mystery Bug-11-05 Mystery Bug-12-05

Mystery Bug 1-06 Mystery Bug 2-06 Mystery Bug 3-06

Mystery Bug 4-06   Mystery Bug 5-06 Mystery Bug 6-06

Mystery Bug 8-06 II   Mystery Bug 9-06 II Mystery Bug 10-06

Mystery Bug 11-06    Mystery Bug 12-06

Mystery Bug 1-07 and links to all of 2007 Mystery Bugs pages

Stay tuned each month

More to come soon!

Enlargements: If you liked these pictures and want to see additional microorganisms check out the pages below.

Amoeba

Flagellates

Free Swimming Ciliates

Eating under the microscope- Dinner time!

What if you do not have a lab or microscope onsite that is capable of performing an analyses of your system?

Find out how Environmental Leverage's lab can perform an analyses of your biomass in your system and make recommendation on how to improve your system.

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