Please help ID Microscopic Worm & Microbe?

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Looks like a type of nematode. The little green dots look like dinos. Both are common and probably not something to worry about.
 
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Spare time said:
Looks like a type of nematode. The little green dots look like dinos. Both are common and probably not something to worry about.
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Any idea what this might be? I could't find it on the internet, looks like much bigger than Dinos and it mgiht have eaten something that still turning inside, also look at how it is anchored to the south end of it's body.
 
Micro-Reefs Aquarium said:
Any idea what this might be? I could't find it on the internet, looks like much bigger than Dinos and it mgiht have eaten something that still turning inside, also look at how it is anchored to the south end of it's body.
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Maybe a Tintinnid ciliate?
 
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Micro-Reefs Aquarium said:
Thanks, is it a predator for the dinos what does it eat or it's purpose, producer or consumer?
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I updated my response as I found a better match. I do not know much about them off hand. I am not 100% certain. I found them in am empty 10g tank of mine that has some macro algae in it. Definitely not a producer.

Somebody else might be better able to ID that one. I am not very good with identifying protists but I have definitely seen lots of those (saw some an hour ago in a bundle of algae)
 
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It's a type of rotifer in that video.
Grazes on phytoplankton.
 

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Spare time said:
PS These videos are great!
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Thanks, just amazing that these unicelluar and beyond micro organisms are in our reefs living and thriving in our display tanks sumps and refugiums. Just that sometimes their populations explode and well since we are all artist with our tanks/reefs, we object to the colors that come onto our canvas, especially when it is us not painting but the Dinos with that ugly brown they use. :)
 
Micro-Reefs Aquarium said:
Any idea what this might be? I could't find it on the internet, looks like much bigger than Dinos and it mgiht have eaten something that still turning inside, also look at how it is anchored to the south end of it's body.
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Try looking up rotifer
 
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post 12 - copepod (egg sac on the bag)
post 13 - is a type of ciliate that has ingested some dinos (ciliates are known dino grazers, but if they eat too many toxic dinos, the ciliates die like everything else.)
post 14 - start of the video is another kind of ciliate, euplotes.
 
taricha said:
post 12 - copepod (egg sac on the bag)
post 13 - is a type of ciliate that has ingested some dinos (ciliates are known dino grazers, but if they eat too many toxic dinos, the ciliates die like everything else.)
post 14 - start of the video is another kind of ciliate, euplotes.
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