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        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0001.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0001.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[These photomicrographs were taken from a wastewater sample. Most of the objectives used were 100x and 400x or 1000x.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0002.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0002.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[OK, well they are not really from oceans below or under the sea- in reality this little critter and his whole family was found in a wastewater aeration basin or some lagoons samples.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0003.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0003.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[They can twist and turn their bodies in all directions, squeeze through any situation and keep on going! It was amazing to watch.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0004.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0004.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[What surprised me is how these free swimming ciliates were like acrobats and could twist and turn in so many different directions, and so quickly too.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0005.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0005.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[They were very social also, as there was quite a community of them in this sample!
It was amazing and a fun experience to watch.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0006.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0006.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Come take a closer look at the amazing world under the microscope!]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0007.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0007.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[They fold over on themselves.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0008.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0008.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[They have many nuclei.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0009.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0009.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[They have a very distinct cytostome or mouth where ingestion takes place.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0010.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0010.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Low power- sexual reproduction by division]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0011.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0011.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[They twist and turn in all different directions]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0012.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0012.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[The sample is 3-D and they move very fast. They do not like to slow down and pose, so getting a great photo is sometimes very hard.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0013.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0013.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Here is the organism starting to divide]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0014.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0014.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Ok, here is our Free Swimmer at the beginning of this photo session- 40x bright field]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0015.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0015.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[With a big mouth like that, they can swallow many single celled bacteria or small organism.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0016.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0016.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Lots of oral cilia]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0017.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0017.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Look how large it is compared to a paramecium.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0018.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0018.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[These organisms hold the record for the fastest body contractions of any living cell!!]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0019.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0019.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[You can see the bacteria moving around inside that it has eaten.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0020.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0020.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[The cilia or hairs move very fast.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0021.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0021.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[These ciliates live in both freshwater and marine environments.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0022.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0022.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[They are very active predators and scavengers.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0023.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0023.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Bright field
Oral cilia
]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0024.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0024.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[This one is a little darker colored from a different sample.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0025.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0025.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[A large food vacuole. Poor flagellate, he is still very much alive and moving at this point! Looks like a snake here swallowing its prey!]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0026.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0026.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Bright field]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0027.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0027.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Here is almost looks like  double or multiple rings of cilia.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0028.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0028.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Some species may extend up to 1 mm in length.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0029.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0029.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[They can contract the length of their body to 25% of its normal size in ~6-8 milliseconds.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0030.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0030.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Spirostomum (spire-owe-stow-mum) are a genus of heterotrich ciliates.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0031.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0031.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[The contractile vacuole is relatively long, with a very long canal.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0032.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0032.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Above is one of the free swimming ciliates close up They look pretty harmless- not at all like jaws!! Look at all that cilia.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0033.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0033.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Low power, quite a few in here, some dividing.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0034.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0034.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Genus Spirostomum 
Family Spirostomidae 
Class Heterotrichea 
Order Heterotrichida 
(Class Spirotrichea (Heterotrichs)
Phylum Ciliophora 
Kingdom Protozoa]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0035.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0035.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Contractile vacuole at posterior end of cell]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0036.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0036.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Very large mouth with lots or oral cilia]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0037.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0037.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[The oral region is usually at least 1/2 the body length, hmmm, maybe they should be called "jaws"]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0038.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0038.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[1000x look at how much detail you can see when you blow it up.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0039.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0039.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Remember, this is all in one drop of water on a slide under the microscope !!]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0040.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0040.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Spirostomum" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[What does it mean in your system if you have free swimming ciliates dominant?
You are probably running a young to medium sludge age.

Either adjust WAS or supplement with bioaugmentation products.]]></slide>
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