worms in GHA?

[Ray Laneville]

My granddaughter got a microscope for Christmas. I was trying it with her, plucked a bit of GHA from my tank and looked at it. There were lots of tiny worm-like things in it, writhing like snakes. I have no idea what these could be. Larval stage of something perhaps? Anyone else seen this?

 

[brandon429]

What will be handy is to test other zones near the algae to see if they’re there or selecting for gha patch because it’s a respite from water shear / predation and loaded with organics caught in the draft for feeding

no telling what species, hundreds of worms and linked organisms possible. Take a cell phone camera and angle it up close over the lens of the scope it will take fine pics, alternate how high off the ocular the cam rests

heres one I did with a 2009 1 mp flip phone cam

nobody has ever Id’d, and I posted it to Dr Shimek it’s not known what it is all these years

this was a flapping swimming creature the size of a salt grain, dark brown in the water, suspected coral planulae.



this is from a 1960s high school scope