Algae ID

[Wampatom]

This thread made me aware of green cyano. I just found it in my aquarium. It is very thin. Fortunately I do not have much of it.

 

[taricha]

whoa. that is fantastic resolution on that scope.

 

[Wampatom]

I have an old microscope but it has a good C mount camera port. This allows the direct connection of a 4/3 camera. I purchased a used Olympus dslr for that purpose.

I find the connection between microscope and camera to be the weak link in good pictures.

 

[saltyhog]

This thread made me aware of green cyano. I just found it in my aquarium. It is very thin. Fortunately I do not have much of it.

That looks exactly like mine when I'm looking at it in high magnification. Is the brown thing a diatom?(for size reference)

 

[Wampatom]

Yes it is a type of diatom.

 

[taricha]

Yes it is a type of diatom.

A bit of diatom fun. These diatoms are so common, and show up in so many samples, it often works as a scale bar for those who don't have one on their scope setup.
It's either a cylindrotheca or ceratoneis diatom (they look near-identical) and the pigmented part of the kind in our tanks is almost always between 15-30 microns long.