These are some diatom under low magnification, it's just magnified 40x. They are long dead, but because the diatoms have something unique, their corpses look really beautiful. . Diatoms have literally glass cell walls called the frustules. It's made of silica, the main ingredient of glass, and when the diatoms die these frustules deposit on the ocean floor for millions of years and create meters thick layers of something called the diatomaceous earth. . Can you imagine dead bodies of microscopic

These are Synura colonies 1000 times magnified! They are the most beautiful blondes of the pond, but they stink. They literally smell so badly because they release some substances into the water that cause the smell! . I collected a big bottle of water from a pond an hour ago and turned out that Synura is blooming. There are so many Synura colonies that the water looks brownish. . Each synura colony has numerous cells and these cells are attached. And each cell has two whip-like structures calle