Aquarium microscopy findings (vids + pics). Pls identify..

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

Pictures:

1. 40x

2. 400x w/about 3x phone zoom.

3. 400x w/phone zoom

4. 400x w/phone zoom

Video's:
1. https://youtube.com/shorts/qaQsbLgK8aY?feature=share

2. https://youtube.com/shorts/atK1P4RrnsI?feature=share

3. https://youtube.com/shorts/ABMkETU_Rps?feature=share

4. https://youtube.com/shorts/lZPhKiKxpRo?feature=share

5. https://youtube.com/shorts/FOxDPPX_-Z0?feature=share

(Ik the last video says 6, it's actually 5. There's no 6 video. You get what I mean.)

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

In the videos:

#1 is probably a copepodite, but could be a rotifer
#2 Is similar to Vorticella - usually found in freshwater, but sometimes marine
#3 possible ciliate (Euplotes?)
#4 Copepodite? Larval copepod.
#5 IDK


Jay

 

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

In the videos:

#1 is probably a copepodite, but could be a rotifer
#2 Is similar to Vorticella - usually found in freshwater, but sometimes marine
#3 possible ciliate (Euplotes?)
#4 Copepodite? Larval copepod.
#5 IDK


Jay

Are these video numbers, or from pictures.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Are these video numbers, or from pictures.

From the videos

Jay

 

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

I found this... I believe it to be curvularia lunata. I found it in my QT waste water from water change. It wasn't moving, but could it affect my fish?

 

[ZoWhat]

You know.... a Doctor once told me that if I were to choose to do a full body CT scan, it would show so many abnormalities that I wouldn't sleep for 2-3 weeks thinking I had disease and cancer all over my body until it was disproven.

Just saying, too much info is a lot of times too much info.


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[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

Anyways I read up on it and it is a fungus and a pathogen. Still don't know if it affects fish. Or if it got through my rodi system.

 

[LiveFreeAndReef]

You know.... a Doctor once told me that if I chose to do a full body CT scan, it would show so many abnormalities that I wouldn't sleep for 2 weeks thinking I had disease and cancer all over my body until it was disproven.

Just saying, too much info is a lot of time too much info.


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100% agree, I'm happy to live in the macro-world

 

[Galasss]

You know.... a Doctor once told me that if I were to choose to do a full body CT scan, it would show so many abnormalities that I wouldn't sleep for 2-3 weeks thinking I had disease and cancer all over my body until it was disproven.

Just saying, too much info is a lot of times too much info.


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Nothing in this life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
-Marie Curie

 

[Sarcazian]

Pretty cool view of things, but to the point of fear... I don't recommend swimming or playing in any marshes or bays.

I pull copepods, seaweed, amphipods, crabs, and snails a few times a year for my daughters "learning local tank". The wiggly things in the water column (and in the sand or on rocks) is quite gross. I mean, exciting for what I am doing, but not soo much when I think about all of those years of sucking in water and spitting it out at friends...

 

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

Pretty cool view of things, but to the point of fear... I don't recommend swimming or playing in any marshes or bays.

I pull copepods, seaweed, amphipods, crabs, and snails a few times a year for my daughters "learning local tank". The wiggly things in the water column (and in the sand or on rocks) is quite gross. I mean, exciting for what I am doing, but not soo much when I think about all of those years of sucking in water and spitting it out at friends...

Try looking at the water you drink...

 

[LiveFreeAndReef]

Try looking at the water you drink...

Nooooope lol ignorance is bliss!

 

[ZoWhat]

Nothing in this life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
-Marie Curie

Guessing Marie has never looked down the wrong way of a 45 barrel

 

[Galasss]

Guessing Marie has never looked down the wrong way of a 45 barrel

LOL

 

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

You know.... a Doctor once told me that if I were to choose to do a full body CT scan, it would show so many abnormalities that I wouldn't sleep for 2-3 weeks thinking I had disease and cancer all over my body until it was disproven.

Just saying, too much info is a lot of times too much info.


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Heh...well, if you didn't know. Cancer is always.in us. Our body fights it off constantly. So we all have cancer, but some people loose the battle and cancer gets a good grab on them.

 

[ZoWhat]

Heh...well, if you didn't know. Cancer is always.in us. Our body fights it off constantly. So we all have cancer, but some people loose the battle and cancer gets a good grab on them.

Which opens the debate....

Does ICH always exist in a mature tank? And the fish just have a resistance to it with a good immune system?

 

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

Which opens the debate....

Does ICH always exist in a mature tank? And the fish just have a resistance to it with a good immune system?

No, ich is not always in your tank if you quarantine properly. In a mature tank, where one does not quarantine, I believe there are other micro organisms that eat protozoa. Which may eliminate ich, but you have to keep the micro organisms fed with protozoa. So it all depends on the system I think and what things are living in there. Also I bet the fish have a good immunity to the ich but the ich may evolve to combat that. The fish only have so much to keep ich from burrowing into them. Which I'd presume is just a thicker slime coat or tougher skin, idk really.

My 0.02 cents.

 

[Galasss]

Heh...well, if you didn't know. Cancer is always.in us. Our body fights it off constantly. So we all have cancer, but some people loose the battle and cancer gets a good grab on them.

It’s definitely an interesting topic that has been getting more and more exposure. I’m not sure if the literature would go as far as supporting the statement that cancer is always in us, it also depends how you define cells to be cancerous; for example, the nevi on our skin are actually mutated melanocytes that have gone through senescence in order to indeed avoid becoming cancerous (would you define that as a cancerous cell? They certainly are not normally functioning). Some time ago I read a paper where they observed older deceased people (70-90) that actually had small localized tumors! They would have never know without an autopsy since these didn’t majorly affect other functions (or at least we still can’t measure it). One thing that is somewhat coherent with what you said is the fact that many of our cells suicide or inactive themselves on a daily basis (generally due to exposures to carcinogens and mutagens) in order to avoid becoming a cancer cell. This went way too far (hahahaha) on a Reefing forum nonetheless

 

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

No worries! It's just helping me learn more info!

 

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

New Findings: Thu, Sep 9

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5. IMPORTANT!!! IS THIS VELVET? Or ICH? Wasn't moving.

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