iPhone microscope

[ljjames]

http://www.instructables.com/id/10-Smar ... onversion/

Its amazing how much life is in a drop of Puget Sound... I made this microscope adaptor last night and then scooped up some plankton out at cove 2 from the ferry dock.

baby crab.

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[Jan K]

Great stuff, thank you for sharing. Amazing what you did with your iPhone

[ljjames]

Thanks Jan!

i'm starting a youtube channel to help get people connected and curious... I need help with identification so anyone here who's good at that, would love assistance

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... IeLBFTh2Et

[Greg Jensen]

The crab larvae appears to be a pea crab, Fabia subquadrata. One of the clips shows the head of a caprellid amphipod. The 'baby barnacles' shows a molt from a barnacle; the little things moving around inside the molt are protozoans (ciliates) that I always see buzzing around inside of shrimp molts. I'm not any good with copepods so won't venture a guess on the ones in your video.

[ljjames]

Awesome! Thanks for the info and corrections Greg! Any help I can get with ID's and stuff is hugely welcome, in return, if i manage to get and image or video of something you'd like to use please don't hesitate to ask

[ljjames]

have you ever wondered whats in the whale-snot blobs?

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[Greg Jensen]

The critter that is visible on the screen of the phone is a barnacle nauplius