Diatom

Thanks for the link. Many mini-projects you've got there.

One question, where do you find and collect all these microbes ?

Lori.tas, make sure to get a green one, red ones aren't as useful for it. I got mine for around $12 and it's totally worth it. I just wish my point and shoot camera could take better video in the dark, I can't really record what I see when I set it up.

I just wanted to point out that algae hadn't been *completely* overlooked. Western Australia has two of these "Pepto pink" salt lagoon areas. Unfortunately no one has thought to build a tower for taking photos. Standing on my hood was the best I could manage. If you zoom in on Google Earth you can see the one I saw pretty well. I like your algae photos better, Elton. Of course, now I have to buy a laser.

I posted algae; a whole lagoon's worth. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/4033006

Most definitely--I'd say it's one of the reasons why it's so fun. It's a simple setup, but with marvelous results.

It's great to see some algae being represented! I definitely don't know as much as I should about these guys. Also, this is a neat experiment to do with algae and a laser: http://hackaday.com/2010/08/21/laser-microscope-projection/. I got it to work after about a half hour of tinkering, and it was just mesmerizing.