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Rene Van Wezel comments at microscope yahoo group about a solution for conserving protists when travelling:

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Yes you can'quick fix protists' while on holiday.Please consider'tinygrab&gomicroscope kit'! If your going to carry fixative solution in vials(would seem very suspicious to me these caustic/foul smelling vialed solutions..these are poisons/not part of 'personal hygiene shave /travel bag'..hard to explain at airport or any official 'search'.)'if your going to physically 'collect specimen samples'...fun to peek at them in their natural colors/natural behavior patterns/natural attachments. Dead stuff,sediment viewed back home..fun to see months latter, if the live protists you'field observed' thrive at home.

What is a tinygrab&gomicroscope kit'
Thanks
Steve

Hi centratus, I think that he means something like that (please, correct me if I'm wrong)

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That kind of small microscopes that you can take with you. They are small and bad quality, but you can take a look as you go.

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Hello Miguel and centratus, happyspring time all! A relaxing 'added demension' to any vacation to a far from home location, is to note the difference in night skies (if ever I travel south again to Mexico, or Puerto Rico...you KNOW I will at night hope to look up and see :'Crux', the southern cross!). Diurnal enjoyment allows 'as you relax 'on holiday', ...alows note of the different vegetation/different birds,etc.,. A WELL PACKED KIT containing a small 'field microscope', a 'well slide' glass slide, a few regular slides, cover slips, lens paper and 70% 'rubbing alcohol, a pair of tweezers/ an eye dropper with rubber bulb...you are set for at least one relaxing evening, while your travel companion perhaps watches a television soap opera, the two of you sipping regional wine/ the 'spirits' of the region your visiting...you are set to OBSERVE LOCAL AQUATIC PROTISTS at the hotel room your staying in! From time to time call out with enthusiasm: "eegads...honey, come look at this suctorian! It may be a Tokophyra species?!! It's water sample from the public gardens we lunched in today, after the royal art museum!". Of course, ask her to when she gets up , to please bring some more wine out of the ice-bucket, to refill your glass. This in essence, THE SIMPLE JOY OF A 'GRAB and GO', portable/ field microscope kit. For added fun, in this forum, we could each explore if :1) putting your cell-phone camera lens up to the microscopes eyepiece, allows a :'vacation-micrscope photo'? My own 'learning-curve is simply with using the computer (which is why I have'nt indented in proper paragraph format, this posting,gang!) I applied a low cost ($99 dollar/US) handheld digital microscope, over the eyepiece of a 'vintage 1940's' Spencer/Buffalo monocular scope...ThE SYSTEM WORKS, but the digital pictures are in:'BitMap' format, and to share on internet in forums>>I need to "convert to JePeg format"...always the computer literacy which I seem to 'put off learning'!?? happy spring time, charlie guevara, NJ,US