Our tank's biology up close

[jason2459]

Tried to get the pod in darkfield.

 

[jason2459]

Couple perameciums chilling with some diatoms


Not exactly sure what this was. Possibly the same thing I caught up with later that I think may be a rotifer as well. ? This one though is slightly different. Maybe just a basic ciliate?

 

[jason2459]

Interesteing shape at 3:31. Maybe something to do with what I found at the end. Maybe not.

Otherwise I caught back up with that mystery things in the last post closer up. It's very interesting looking. Almost crustacean like when looking at it from the side when it flips around.

At 3:38

Rotifer? Walking Ciliate? Some type of crustacean?

 

[jason2459]

Not exactly sure what this is from and it seems like a molt from something? but I like the patterns and colors.

 

[jason2459]

So, here I am at 100x and I end up viewing the business end of a pod again... lol

This time I was trying to focus more on it eating which was pretty cool

 

[jason2459]

Another thing I had not seen before. Well, I've seen these before but not with flagella like things sticking out and moving. Possibly just seeing it for the first time with better optics. Now I'm curious what it is.

First few seconds is the most exciting. After that it just sat there doing nothing like I'm used to seeing.

 

[jason2459]

Found this critter twice and I think it's a type of rotifer. It can move very very fast it seems. First video is the first one I found and didn't jump around like the second one I found.

1st encounter



2nd Maybe the same as the first one or a different one. Very hard to keep focused on and follow


Zoomed out and it would still just kind of twitch and bam it's in a new spot.

 

[jason2459]

Then started playing around with the darkfield again and playing with the gain in the software. Made lots of things over exposed but brought out other things well.



This was cool. Not exactly sure but it seemed like the cyano was trailing off new strains behind it.




Could really see some of the bacteria and smaller organisms moving around. Like exploring through space.

 

[jason2459]

While I was playing around with the darkfield I ran accross the weird overexposed object except it had feelers, for a lack of a better word, stretching out all around it. I went back to darkfield again toward the end of this video. I didn't have it recording when I first ran into in darkfield.

 

[jason2459]

Man getting all these uploaded has been challenging. First a unplanned reboot killed my uploads, then ran out of battery thinking laptop was plugged in killed the uploads again, then a forced windows update and reboot killed the uploads again, and then was on spotty wifi and kept stalling the uploads...

2 of the samples have been uploaded finally. Still getting the rest of what I captured uploaded...and it's the mystery black mat.


So, here's what I've gotten uploaded so far. Samples from member karimwassef.

Each sample I sliced off a chunk and sucked up some with my pipette as usually.

Have wide cover slips just for this.

 

[jason2459]

Full Sample 3 album here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/145000273@N07/albums/72157685924183971

and click on the links with the pictures to get full resolution.

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0001 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0002 by Jason, on Flickr

Looks like some kind of brown algae with the green algae.
Coral_Tip_Sample03-0003 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0003 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0004 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0005 by Jason, on Flickr

Typical diatoms
Coral_Tip_Sample03-0006 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0007 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0008 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0009 by Jason, on Flickr

 

[jason2459]

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0010 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0011 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0012 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0014 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0015 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0016 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0017 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0018 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0019 by Jason, on Flickr

 

[jason2459]

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0020 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0021 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0022 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0023 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0024 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0025 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0026 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0027 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0028 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0029 by Jason, on Flickr

 

[jason2459]

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0030 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0031 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0032 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0033 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0034 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0035 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0036 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0037 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0038 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0039 by Jason, on Flickr

 

[jason2459]

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0040 by Jason, on Flickr

This is what I believe to be a type of cyano but haven't seen it in my system. A lot more of it in the other samples.
Coral_Tip_Sample03-0041 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0042 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0043 by Jason, on Flickr

Sometimes the pictures look out of focus but if you look around you'll see what I was focusing on.
In this case it was the spirochete bacteria. They are pretty cool.
Coral_Tip_Sample03-0044 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0045 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0046 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0047 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0048 by Jason, on Flickr

 

[jason2459]

Here's the thick mass taken from the bag. Lots of cyano mixed with algae

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0049 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0050 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0051 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0052 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0053 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0054 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0055 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0056 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0057 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0058 by Jason, on Flickr

 

[jason2459]

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0060 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0061 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0062 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0063 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0064 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0065 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0066 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0067 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0068 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0069 by Jason, on Flickr

 

[Brew12]

Great work as always, Jason!

I have to ask. What magnifications do you find most useful for algae and bacteria identification?

 

[jason2459]

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0070 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0071 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0072 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03-0073 by Jason, on Flickr

 

[jason2459]

Video on flikr for now and will get up to youtube later. Click on the picture or link to see the video.

Coral_Tip_Sample03_01 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03_02 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03_03 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03_04 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03_05 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03_06 by Jason, on Flickr

Coral_Tip_Sample03_07 by Jason, on Flickr


There is one more video but looks like it failed to upload. I'll work on that once the black mat pictures and videos are up.