"Charles" wrote in message
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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 04:22:42 -0400, " George"
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"Ka30P" wrote in message
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For those of us who just love to get down and stick our noses
in the pond and see who has shown up...
Try Ron's Pond Scum page
http://www.silkentent.com/gus1911/RonPond.htm


kathy :-)
algae primer
http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html

Interesting. Do you know anyone who has similar images of freshwater
bryozoans?



google knows of a few:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...yozoan&spell=1

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/...97b/kenj1.html

This one may not be freshwater:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ib...s/bryozoa.html

The ones I had I decide were plumatella, but there was a lot of
ignorance involved in my guesswork.


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- Charles
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-does not play well with others

Thanks. The reason I asked is that I am a geologist and have studied and
published on fossil crinoids, and in the process, have learned a lot about
living echinoderms (I have a huge green brittle star in my marine tank). I have
collected not a few fossil bryozoans, but until recently, have never seen a
living one (I believe a have a freshwater colony growing in my pre-filter in my
pond, along the inner wall. So,naturally I want to try to identify the buggers,
and try to learn a little about them. So far, I have been able to identify
them.