Any micro biologists??

Anirban · May 3, 2016

The other question is which kind of staining you are targeting...gram positive or gram negative....this protocol can give you a good detail idea about that.
http://www2.hendrix.edu/biology/CellWeb/Techniques/microstain.html

Anirban · May 3, 2016

Let me run an experiment possibly tomorrow with my tank water to see what kind of micro organism we have in our tank water.....I will try to mount my tank water and see it under electron microscope...I think this will be fun like the E.coli stuff

samdizshiz · May 3, 2016

Squamosa said:
Laboratories are full of nice things

Must be nice haha

samdizshiz · May 3, 2016

Anirban said:
I do active research for living and basically imaging or microscopy....this is how a E.coli looks under electron microscope...

Man id love to have an electron microscope sitting somewhere haha

Anirban · May 3, 2016

samdizshiz said:
Man id love to have an electron microscope sitting somewhere haha

Ha ha .....its just cost few million dollar with camera.

I took that image using a system which cost even more.....

JimWelsh · May 3, 2016

Since we're showing off microscope images -- this is my image of a Parvocalanus crassirostris adult I took:

K. Steven · May 3, 2016

samdizshiz said:
What is this guy hes swims around and filter feeds theres tons of them ?

Looks like a cyphonaute larva of a bryozoan

Squamosa · May 3, 2016

K. Steven said:
Looks like a cyphonaute larva of a bryozoan

I see the resemblance with the triangular shell!

http://invert-embryo.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/cyphonautes-of-conopeum-sp.html

samdizshiz · May 4, 2016

K. Steven said:
Looks like a cyphonaute larva of a bryozoan

It is a cyphonaute thanks guys hes so crasy whtching him zoom across and attatch to particles and filter feed cool little guy but what is his purpoyse is he good what dose he serve ?

K. Steven · May 4, 2016

If it settles and metamorphoses, it will become a bryozoan. They will filter particulate food from the water, like sponges and bivalves.

samdizshiz · May 4, 2016

K. Steven said:
If it settles and metamorphoses, it will become a bryozoan. They will filter particulate food from the water, like sponges and bivalves.

How large will they get and are they notmal in a tank how did i get him ?

K. Steven · May 4, 2016

They will be small, and they are normal. They can come in on live rock, snails, crabs, or anything you introduced to the tank. This is a larva, so either there was a small spawning in your tank or larvae were introduced with something you added.

samdizshiz · May 4, 2016

K. Steven said:
They will be small, and they are normal. They can come in on live rock, snails, crabs, or anything you introduced to the tank. This is a larva, so either there was a small spawning in your tank or larvae were introduced with something you added.

Do you mean small as in microscope small or as in my eyes sight small