I sure wish I could do that sort of stuff at home, but who has the money for a good enough microscope to see smaller parasites, like protozoa and bacteria? Definately not me... I love parasitology, it was such a fun class, although my parents looked at me weird when I had poo in the fridge..

So Adam, do you have a good micriscope to see the tiny parasites, or just the bigger ones like ascarids, nematodes and trematodes? Coccidia and giardia are pretty common, and giardia can only be found on a fresh fecal smear, and not usually on a flotation. Those are both so nasty. I remember when we got one of our rats, who is now pregnant and about ready to pop, she had tapeworms and coccidia, and I treated her twice a day every day for a month. There were so many tapeworm eggs and coccidia on the slide, I could barely see the glass underneath. Bleh... I'm sorry to have hijacked the thread, but parasitology is so much fun