Dino ID

[Kupo]

Can someone ID this? Tank has been running for about 8 months and this brown algae just started taking over the sand and rocks.

 

[Jonify]

Can someone ID this? Tank has been running for about 8 months and this brown algae just started taking over the sand and rocks.

The roomba ones—Amphidinium.

 

[Kupo]

The roomba ones—Amphidinium.

Thank you.

 

[EricR]

Wow ... that's the most detailed microscope pic/vid I've seen.
What setup are you using to capture that?

 

[Kupo]

I just bought a cheap microscope, Amscope M150c ($72). I don't have the glass slides yet (arriving tomorrow) so I used some plastic packaging material instead . It's at 400x recorded using A6000 camera.

 

[EricR]

I just bought a cheap microscope, Amscope M150c ($72). I don't have the glass slides yet (arriving tomorrow) so I used some plastic packaging material instead . It's at 400x recorded using A6000 camera.

tangent from dino ID so I apologize -- that's an optical microscope (((no CCD, right?))) so how are you mounting that camera to it or just hand-holding the camera pointing through the microscope eyepiece (afocal) ?

 

[Kupo]

tangent from dino ID so I apologize -- that's an optical microscope so how are you mounting that camera to it or just hand-holding the camera pointing through the microscope eyepiece (afocal) ?

Recorded handheld. I set the camera to manual and adjust every settings myself. Then post process to stabilize the video and adjust the lighting.

 

[Kupo]

So I've been dosing bacteria, nitrate, phosphate, silicate and H2O2 for the past couple days. Trying to keep NO3 above 10 and PO4 above 0.1.

Tank looks like crap but at least there's competing with the dino, not sure what though.