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I have what looks like a dusty dark dirt like area on my substrate where my last bit of cyano was during my Vibrant testing and I wanted to see what all was there.

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Pics and vids uploading. I will give a little spoiler because I was very excited to find them. I finally found a couple ostracods with eggs. Very cool looking.
 
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So, it mostly looked like well... dirt. It was a lot of detritus with some cyano, diatoms, sponge spicules, lots of bacteria of different types etc. Normal detritus stuff I see.

But I did find some cool stuff.

I followed this little ciliate for quite some time. It was very excited spinning very fast.
Dirt_on_Sand-0013 by Jason, on Flickr


Some cyano but not a lot
Dirt_on_Sand-0015 by Jason, on Flickr

A few Diatoms
Dirt_on_Sand-0017 by Jason, on Flickr

Dirt_on_Sand-0035 by Jason, on Flickr


Some walking ciliates
Dirt_on_Sand-0019 by Jason, on Flickr

Dirt_on_Sand-0005 by Jason, on Flickr

Dirt_on_Sand-0041 by Jason, on Flickr

Dirt_on_Sand-0042 by Jason, on Flickr

Sponge Spicules and here's a tight ball of them
Dirt_on_Sand-0034 by Jason, on Flickr
 
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I found the 4 they show on the label and then some. A nice bacteria count as well.

Ocean_Magik_Phytoplankton-0001 by Jason, on Flickr

Ocean_Magik_Phytoplankton-0002 by Jason, on Flickr

Ocean_Magik_Phytoplankton-0003 by Jason, on Flickr

Ocean_Magik_Phytoplankton-0004 by Jason, on Flickr

Ocean_Magik_Phytoplankton-0005 by Jason, on Flickr

Ocean_Magik_Phytoplankton-0006 by Jason, on Flickr

Ocean_Magik_Phytoplankton-0008 by Jason, on Flickr

Ocean_Magik_Phytoplankton-0014 by Jason, on Flickr

Ocean_Magik_Phytoplankton-0016 by Jason, on Flickr
 
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Been to long...

What's left of some hair algae after playing around with that Vibrant product. Noticed a few bubbles on the HA and figured I might find some dinoflagellets
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A walking ciliate
Hair_Algae_Above_Pump2-0012 by Jason, on Flickr
With something on it
Hair_Algae_Above_Pump2-0013 by Jason, on Flickr

An Amoeba Consuming the ciliate!
Hair_Algae_Above_Pump2-0013 by Jason, on Flickr
Hair_Algae_Above_Pump2-0016 by Jason, on Flickr
Hair_Algae_Above_Pump2-0017 by Jason, on Flickr
Hair_Algae_Above_Pump2-0018 by Jason, on Flickr
Hair_Algae_Above_Pump2-0019 by Jason, on Flickr
Hair_Algae_Above_Pump2-0020 by Jason, on Flickr
Hair_Algae_Above_Pump2-0021 by Jason, on Flickr
Hair_Algae_Above_Pump2-0022 by Jason, on Flickr
 
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A walking ciliate being consumed by an amoeba. I didn't realize what was happening right away then by the end of this video I did and started another one.



Not much happened after as it seems the amoeba had a mouthful and didn't move from that spot for a couple hours I would assume digesting. Slide dried out by then
 
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Those pictures with dinos scare me lol. I have been hesitant to take any slides from my tank because I know I will see them even though I'm not seeing signs of them in the tank.
 
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Those pictures with dinos scare me lol. I have been hesitant to take any slides from my tank because I know I will see them even though I'm not seeing signs of them in the tank.
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It's all natural...a balanced system has all these things all the time. Maybe visible, maybe not. Plague-level blooms are the problem...but that's something we instigate, they just do what they do. :)
 
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