This critter is white, tiny can can see with naked eye with wavemaker off, I have two videos one is in black container, at 1x zoom that eyes can see
Other is microscope video showing this critter (are they marine ostracods with more legs?)
It is crawling everywhere in tank, also crawling...
Hi All,
Went away for 5 weeks on vacation and came back to a mess of tanks!
Tank is 3 years old, well established. Fought off LCA dinos about 6 months ago.
This single cell organism has a lot more chloroplasts and is about 1/4 the size of the LCA that I had before.
It doesn't have any amour...
Hi all, trying to figure out if I’m experiencing the start of dino’s in my system. They don’t look like dinos under the scope however they appear like them with stringy snot and looks as if they disappear when the lights go off.
Hopefully the video is good enough!
Thanks :)
Hey guys, just got a microscope to ID what's been covering my sand. It's a clumpy rust coloured coating on just the sandbed (not rocks or glass), it seems to be photosynthetic, but it doesn't disapate at night. When you stir it up it kind of strings the sand grains together, but the sand...
I have been battling what I suspect is Dinos since it has wiped out my coral and my nutrients are 0. The following videos were taken of an algae sample with a cheap toy microscope. Apologies in advanced
I have recently ordered one from amazon, can anyone else give additional feedback about it in reef hoby especially?
I recently had a dino outbreak - it forced me to consider a cheap microscope to make things easier with exact specie identification and same future things
Hello!
I run a 5 gallon PICO tank that until yesterday had no fish. I also feed phyto daily, so there has always been an abundance of wee beasties that have fascinated me. Most I've been able to identify (copepods, amphipods, munnid isopods, spinoid worms, spirorbid worms). However, there have...
Hello Everyone,
I recently set up a frag system and am trying to be very thorough about quarantining everything I introduce. A few months ago I purchased a chalice coral that has now been in quarantine for 60 days. Overall the coral appears to be in good health and has even grown a bit...
I’m looking for a cheap ($100 or under) microscope for fish disease/algae/bacteria identification, just looking for some reviews or experience on better ones (I understand a $100 microscope will act like one haha).
i plan on upgrading eventually, just need something for now that wont break...
Now that we have your attention- check out our video under the microscope of a copepod pooping ;) :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:
What goes in..... must come out....
Due to the fact that phytoplankton removes CO2 from the atmosphere and copepods eat this phytoplankton, these pods are...
Just dipped a new Trumpet Coral with some CoralX and found these two 'lil creatures. Any idea what they are?
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2a) Assuming Front part of body
2b) also, assuming this is one creature unless it's two. But this would be what I'm considering the non-front part of one creatures - almost...
I have never thought of getting a Microscope to look at the coral, or other things in the tank. I decided that it is worth having, and they are rather inexpensive these days.
I ended up getting
The reason I like this one is that I can place a frag on a plug in a small jar saltwater and...
Here is the goby's poop and the microscope pics show the white part of it. Can't believe he pooped all this out at once... (Vid at bottom)
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https://youtube.com/shorts/vmXGkAn8VaE?feature=share
Hi, I’ve just finished cycling my tank and I’ve put a grain of sand under the microscope to see this? There like little bugs zooming round near/next to the grain of sand. Anyone know what it is? Is it bad or is it the bacteria that came with the live sand? Thanks :)
Here is the video of microscope:
Maybe a copepod? Harmless?
A ciliate? Is it harmful?
Guessing these are a type of dinoflagellate. Harmful?
No idea what this is...
And this is my tangs Flesh...after he died. Thinking he may have died from flesh eating worms or flukes.
Are there anything in these findings that would've killed my tang? He was breathing kinda fast starting yesterday or the day before...He died this morning. If you have suggestions I could go back and try to get a better picture of something.
@vetteguy53081
Let me know if I should take...
I took a gentle skin scrape off one of my clownfish and found red bacteria moving very slowly. Should I be concerned? And could the picture be a fluke of some sort?
Btw they are taken at 800x
And I've been using prazipro for about 2 1/2 to 3 weeks now.
I know what this one is...
Small cell amphidinium Dinoflagellates.
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This is some weird brown algae almost has a Coralline brown dot attached to the rock with a string piece coming off I think.
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Some green stuff...
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Random microscope pics that...
Do you see any thing worry some in these microscope pictures?
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@Jay Hemdal do you see anything? And if you don't see anything what power should I look at for a bacterial infection or the flukes?
Does anyone/ microbiologists know what these things are, I believe my fish have a bacterial infection, just trying to find out if anything in these pics are worry some? And what to look for when I do a skin scrape.
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These are just from my rock and water in tank:
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