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Mystery Bug of the Month

March-05

Target Higher Forms. . . . .

OK, these are the guys to shoot for in most activated sludge plants. They are called Suctorians. They almost always indicate an extremely healthy system and usually the BOD in the final effluent is very low, the TSS is low and things are running smoothly. If you have these in your plant, you are probably running very good and should congratulate yourselves!

Although they look very pretty, watch out, well only if you are a microscopic higher life form. They are deadly! They stab unsuspecting higher life forms that swim by and suck their guts out. Nice huh- violence even under the microscope- eat or be eaten, same as the laws of the jungle, oh well, It was amazing and a weird experience to watch . . . ..

We do have videos of this, 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!

They come in may sizes, shapes and with numerous "spikes"	Here is a flagellate at the base of the Suctorian This suctorian has been in the system very long, you can tell by all the attached growth at the base.
	400x
400x Here the suctorian is surrounded by numerous branched, stalked ciliates	200x

This one is very large, but with very small spikes

You can see the size of this one compared to part of a rotifer







This photo has two free swimming ciliates, a suctorian and a Gasterotrich	Here, the suctorian is near Nocarida and on the other side is a rotifer
this is my favorite photo of a Suctorian it looks so pretty in here- this is before I found out it was vicious!
Remember, this is all in one drop of water on a slide under the microscope !!!

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

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