Our tank's biology up close

[jason2459]

And this is what I just got done exploring. Pics and maybe vids tomorrow. Or I guess later today.


Stringy bacteria in sump

The smear.

 

[jason2459]

So, it was pretty amazing, not how many things, but how many big things showed up on that thin smear. Still lots of worms but different kinds as well as many of the same kind as that big girl above.

I'm going to have to give up on calling out what x things are taken at. I kept switching last night as there were so many larger critters mixed in I kept zooming back out.

 

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Lots of various worms

IT'S A BOY! I was looking for a male and found one

 

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Lots of pods. They either like the bacteria or detritus stuck in it or my guess would be both.

 

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At 400x it was like being able to dissect the pod through focusing at different planes. I hope the video of this comes out good.

 

[jason2459]

I was looking at this pod and something decided to show up....

Looks like a baby bristle worm

I need to see how to stitch these together. I could shrink up and stretch out pretty far. I hope the video came out for this one. I was so excited I may have messed it up.

 

[DMan]

Super cool.

 

[CastAway]

Totally awesome! Tagging along.

 

[Damon]

Awesome!

I have just started trying to make slides, so I am extremely new(sort of frustrated with them and the process)..

This is awesome and inspiring! Thank you tremendously!

 

[jason2459]

Sorry some of these may be duplicates

 

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Then I added some methylene blue and pulled that bacteria out

 

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I noticed a lot of these Y structures at various magnifications.

 

[jason2459]

Going to look at doing something with the videos. I might end up just being lazy again and uploading them all as is. There more videos this time too.

 

[jason2459]

interesting my posts aren't posting


Edit: well that posted. But tried posting a video post and it just went away.


Edit: still not working will try and embed in this post that actually posted

edit: well that worked. Just going to add the videos up as is.

 

[jason2459]

Try this again

 

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test

 

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four

 

[Eienna]

Awesome stuff! Reminds me of when we used to examine water droplets from a pool we had that...er....well, it collected rainwater and mosquito larvae. And a ton of other critters. So much fun!!