Bacteria under Microscope?

[Micro-Reefs Aquarium]

Wanted to share some pics of what might be bacteria from the product, I am using to fight Dinoflagellates.

You can clearly identify the dino but not sure what I am looking for in a bacteria?

 

[SPR1968]

I can’t answer the specific question, but I can bump the thread to see if we can get you some help

 

[Dennis Cartier]

Sounds like you need some assistance from an experienced microscope guy @jason2459

You may want to read: Our tank's biology up close

Dennis

 

[taricha]

You can clearly identify the dino but not sure what I am looking for in a bacteria?

It's pretty difficult to get useful info about bacteria from this kind of microscope work. Surface associated bacteria will just appear in clumps of biofilm, and be indistinguishable from the rest of the biofilm stricture. Although, if you create a cloudy water bacterial bloom, the millions of zooming microbes are fun to look at.

 

[Micro-Reefs Aquarium]

It's pretty difficult to get useful info about bacteria from this kind of microscope work. Surface associated bacteria will just appear in clumps of biofilm, and be indistinguishable from the rest of the biofilm stricture. Although, if you create a cloudy water bacterial bloom, the millions of zooming microbes are fun to look at.

So, do bacteria move around like Dinos? Protozoa will move, but I thought bacteria only move because of the water molecules that we look at through the microscorpe, hence what Albert Einstein called brownian movement?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

So, do bacteria move around like Dinos? Protozoa will move, but I thought bacteria only move because of the water molecules that we look at through the microscorpe, hence what Albert Einstein called brownian movement?

Some bacteria can move:

How bacteria move

Microscopic locomotion is more than meets the eye.

grow.cals.wisc.edu

 

[taricha]

Yep. Some do, Randy's link is better than ones I could find on the topic.
Ones from a bottle won't be very actively moving if at all.

 

[Micro-Reefs Aquarium]

Some bacteria can move:

How bacteria move

Microscopic locomotion is more than meets the eye.

grow.cals.wisc.edu

Fascinating article from the assistant professor of biochemistry. I never new they had flagella like that of the protozoa Euglena that I studied in 7th grade, or what I see today under light microscopy in my home with Dinoflagellates, the infamous Amphidinium for example to name one.