Our tank's biology up close

jason2459 · Jul 21, 2018

It always amazes me how much life there is in every tiny speck everywhere in the tank.

There's definitely algae on the ATS. I didn't pull out the screen or anything so don't know how much. Just stuck a pipette into the top and pulled the sample.

It's been a while so had to get reacquainted with everything. New laptop seems much faster and was able to do live streaming at the full resolution! Though, I did something wrong when recording. Have to figure out the right default settings again for video. They came out at super high speed and didn't post many of them up as they came out like a jumbled mess.

Will get posting here soon. I did see for what I can remember for the first time some kind of very interesting movements from in side of one of the diatoms while attached to some algae.

Brew12 · Jul 21, 2018

Glad to see this thread active again! It's the reason I picked up a scope.

And I agree, it amazes me that I can't pull a tiny sample from anywhere in my tank without seeing pods, rotifers, and other interesting life in it.

The other thing I have noticed is that I can find cyano and dino's in absolutely every sample. You would never know it by looking at my DT. We are sadly mistaken if we think we can eradicate either from our systems. We just need to learn how to achieve balance!

Can't wait to see what else I can learn from following along!

jason2459 · Jul 21, 2018

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jason2459 · Jul 21, 2018

Looks like 1 video uploaded and the rest stalled. I'll work on getting them up. They are weird because they are moving at like 10x the speed of normal. Will have to get the settings right to record normally.

mcarroll · Jul 21, 2018

jason2459 said:
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What is that???

jason2459 · Jul 21, 2018

mcarroll said:
What is that???

The Milky Way

jason2459 · Jul 21, 2018

Actually it's just the slide drying out. Thought it looked cool and took a picture.

samnaz · Jul 21, 2018

I love this thread thanks for sharing.

jason2459 · Jul 23, 2018

All the vids finally uploaded and published.

Here's the playlist. Don't blink.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN_wI2B-a8vo9njy_-GnpBo6UmGfrX1dn

jason2459 · Jul 27, 2018

Nematode zombies...
https://siberiantimes.com/science/c...rost-for-up-to-42000-years-come-back-to-life/

mcarroll · Jul 27, 2018

Fear The Crawling Dead

jason2459 · Jul 28, 2018

I should be sleeping right now. I was supposed to just get a quick sample to adjust some settings to get some normal speed videos. I just stirred up some detritus in my sump and pulled some water up not expecting much.

A few specs of nothing. A quick look and adjustments to a few settings

3 hours later...