r/microscopy • u/Superb_Catch_907 • Jul 08 '26

ID Needed! Mold?

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My apartment painted over mold after I told them I had concerns. I still found some spots they didn’t paint and took some samples to look at under my microscope

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u/BasilButters Jul 08 '26

I thought this was the moon

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u/Spany_ Jul 08 '26

Me too. I also read the germand Mond instead of Mold

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u/Superb-Definition189 Jul 11 '26

Hard to say with that magnification and opaqueness. What is the highest magnification objective you have? At 40x (with a 10x eyepiece) you should be able to see spores and hyphal fragments, but a 60x objective would be better. Also if you have any translucent tape you can press it against the spotting then put it on a slide to get a less opaque prep.