>>13833815>Are the any critters that you found unsettling to look at? Not as such. On a conceptual level I dislike parasites and I get paranoid about hygiene if I realize I'm looking at one. But just by looks they're usually not particularly unsettling. The ostracod I posted earlier someone might find creepy because it's got long slender limbs usually hidden inside its shell which it uses in sudden, fast bursts. And you can see it lurking and moving in there.
>What is your favorite find so far?In terms of easy to image and cool to look at, the flatworm is probably up there.I also really liked the urocentrum turbo just because of how weird and mobile it is. I stumbled upon it and I feel like it's the kind of creature that might be difficult to get on video if I set out explicitly to do that, but someone might disagree.
A more common critter for amateur microscopists to marvel at is lacrymaria olor, seen in this video, which I also found really cool. It is single-celled but very fast, does seemingly complex things and has a million other things going for it. It's also predatory. I think it would make for a fabulous video. However my video kind of failed because it is just too damn fast and mobile, it is constantly swimming out of frame and out of focus. I got about five seconds of usable footage and even that has issues.
>>13833801My YouTube is just microscopy vids and I've made it not contain any reference to my identity. However the webms I've made span most or all of my video topics already. The YT videos are longer (~5 min usually), better quality and contain semi-informative captions but I think they are kind of boring so maybe it's better to just leave it to webms. Making the videos has been a useful exercise in giving a project to work towards and forcing me to figure out what I'm looking at and to learn about it. Overall I definitely get more out of this microscopy hobby because of the videos, even if nobody watches them.
