Protozoa Hatchery Kit
Start your own living culture of mixed protozoans and algae in 3 days! Just add water to the special dry culture. Complete kit includes dry culture, cup to use as a hatching container, food, protist identification key and instructions. (We recommend plain microscope
slides and
coverslips to observe these organisms with your 400X microscope.) Add a few loose fibers from a cotton ball to slow down the protists for better viewing.
Science Fair Project Ideas:
- What are the effects of light and temperature on protists?
- What are the effects of household chemicals or cleaners on
protists? Do different species (such as amoeba and euglena) react
differently?
- Do different kinds of protists grow in different environments?
Compare those in this kit with those grown from pond water or grass
clippings.
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- Monday, January 19, 2009
protozoa hatchery kit The protozoa kit was great. I was able to see protozoa within 24 hours.
- Sunday, January 11, 2009
Prepare For a Microscopic Journey!Reviewed By: thenaturalist With this amazing kit, you will have so much fun. When i bought it, all i had to do was wait a couple days. Just a drop of the water looked through a microscope reveals an entire world at a whole nother level. I spent hours with my new microscopic pets! It is quite facinating to watch the behaviors of creatures so small, indeed, so small a drop of water is a world to them!
- Monday, November 10, 2008
Great Product I added the water to the plastic cup and waited a day. I put a drop on my slide and looked at it under the microscope. I was disappointed. There were no protists. I waited a few more days and I was amazed at what I saw: paramecium, volvox, some amoeba, a few euglena, some stentor, and a hydra(maybe). This is a fantastic product to buy and you will not be disappointed. Something else you should consider buying is some methyl cellulose. It helps slow the protozoa down so you can see them with out having to constantly move the slide.
- Sunday, November 09, 2008
great hatchery i was very satisfied with this product. Overnight the protozoans already hatched. I love looking at them under my microscope. Home science is a an affordable place for labware of any kind. they also ship fast even with standard shipping.
- Wednesday, February 06, 2008
A must have! This kit is a must have if you've got a microscope, particularly in winter. We tried getting samples for viewing from the local pond, but since it is winter, we were disappointed with so few species. We ordered the Protozoa Hatchery Kit and were very pleased. In fact, it is still going strong in its 6th week! We just add a little distilled water each week. It is worthwhile to buy the Methyl Cellulose also. Some of these little protozoans are so fast, you must slow them down to identify them and truly appreciate their complexity!
Read More Reviews - Sunday, January 21, 2007
To see a world in a grain of sand...
Using an MI-1SCOPE and a simple wet mount with the protozoa hatchery kit we were able to see many different protozoans. It has been a long time since I took microbiology but I was able to at least identify an ameoba and paramecium.Some move fast and some move slow and the big, lazy dumb ones are easiest to hold in focus for longer periods. They dart in and out of focus quickly which stands to reason since what is a drop of water to you is an ocean (and home) to them, an awesome thought to ponder while using this kit whether your children are taught in a religious or secular setting, that is Intelligent Design or Evolution (as mine are).In fact, using a concave slide was useless as the ocean on the slide became unfathomable quickly.
It is very easy to use.Simply fill the cup with water and add the protozoan mixture then wait. It took about 48 hours before we could find anything. But after 4 days the water was teaming with life.The nice thing is that it will last a long time and this can make an ongoing project as well as provide an educational means to fill space if it becomes necessary. It takes up very little space as storage, short or long term, requires no more space than a small plastic cup.With a bit of creative thought many projects can be designed with no more than this kit, a microscope and some slides.
George Fear
- Sunday, October 08, 2006
Better than stinky pond cultures!
We saw an amazing variety: voricella, amoeba, euglena, paramecium, volvox, algae and others than simply moved too fast to identify! The culture is easy to set up and the specimens can be viewed with flat slides - just add a few cotton ball fibers to slow the critters down.
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