Wampatom
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I am interested in what algae grows on my glass. It varies every time I observe it. To keep the organization or the colonies intact I have been inserting a microscope slide into the gravel (zone B). I pull it out and put it under the microscope. In this series I also took a scraping from zone A. Zone C was photographed through the glass.
Glass after 1 week without scraping. Note the three zones.
Zone A top:
Zone A) Nerite snails like it.
Zone A photomicrograph) Scrapping from glass. Mixture diatoms, dinos, green cyano, some sort of green algae. The general organization is destroyed by scrapping the glass. Snails dig it.
Zone B
Zone B) Microscope slide placed in tank.
Zone B) Close up photomicrograph. The small 3 micron algae forms a very hard layer. I need a razor to get it off. Ostreopis dino is on top of the brown algae layer.
Zone C:
Zone 3) Cyano zone.
Zone 3 close up) Photomicrograph from a slightly different location (bottom on the slide). Note the regular spacing of the cyano, green algae, and brown algae. Is the spacing random?
Glass after 1 week without scraping. Note the three zones.
Zone A top:
Zone A) Nerite snails like it.
Zone A photomicrograph) Scrapping from glass. Mixture diatoms, dinos, green cyano, some sort of green algae. The general organization is destroyed by scrapping the glass. Snails dig it.
Zone B
Zone B) Microscope slide placed in tank.
Zone B) Close up photomicrograph. The small 3 micron algae forms a very hard layer. I need a razor to get it off. Ostreopis dino is on top of the brown algae layer.
Zone C:
Zone 3) Cyano zone.
Zone 3 close up) Photomicrograph from a slightly different location (bottom on the slide). Note the regular spacing of the cyano, green algae, and brown algae. Is the spacing random?
