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  • Choosing the best microscope for wastewater treatment
    January 5, 2022

    Choosing the best microscope for wastewater treatment

    With daily inspection using a decent quality wastewater treatment microscope, you can determine the biological health of your wastewater monitoring quickly and reliably. The speed and ease of microscopic inspection makes it invaluable for early detection of potential problems (changes to F/M (food to microorganism ratio), bulking and shocks) – often before they can be detected by other methods. However, you’ll need the right microscope for the task at hand.

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  • Faecal Worm Egg Counting Microscope what equipment is required?
    December 31, 2021

    Faecal Worm Egg Counting Microscope what equipment is required?

    One of the great things about FWEC tests are that there's minimal need for specialized equipment needed, just a microscope and some time. Every practice has a compound microscope for viewing blood smears etc and the same one can be used for FWEC in a pinch. In an ideal world, separate parasitology and clinical pathology microscopes would be available as the salt solutions for performing FWEC microscopy can tarnish a scope.
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  • What is Koehler illumination?
    December 26, 2021

    What is Koehler illumination?

    Kohler illumination is an alignment technique that reduces stray light and glare caused by reflections inside your microscope. By setting up your light path correctly using Kohler illumination, you’ll greatly enhance the visibility of your specimen.

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  • how to clean a microscope
    November 14, 2021

    How to Clean Your Microscope

    What you’re doing is important and a clean microscope is key to quality images and longer lasting equipment. Regular cleaning also decreases your risk of infection from germs, which can remain on surfaces like metal, glass and plastic for hours or days. 

    These simple steps show you how to keep your microscope clean and sanitised – for everybody’s safety.

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