Help to ID - Unknown Bacteria

[jjencek]

I have had an outbreak of bacteria in my tank for the last 4 weeks. I thought it was a dino, but after getting a microscope, I am not sure anymore.

I have already identified one area as cyano (different Thread), but the back wall of the tank is still a mystery. Attached are two images. The first one is of the back wall showing the bubbles and the growth. The second one is a microscope image of the bacteria at 1200 X.

Can anybody identify the "club like" bacteria?

Thank you.

 

[jjencek]

Here is a better picture of the "bacteria".

 

[nereefpat]

do you think it's closer to 1 micron or 10+ um? It still could be a species of dino.

If it's a bacteria, it could be Corynebacterium (you did say club-like).

Gonna be tough one for us to ID.

 

[jjencek]

Hi Pat,

if I got the conversions right, I believe it is more like 60 um. Here are yet more pictures. Sorry for being little out of focus, but I am shooting them using my cell phone camera.

 

[nereefpat]

Individual bacteria cells are at most only a couple microns long, so anything bigger than that is something else. In this case, my guess would be dinos.

 

[JUNBUG361]

Can you zoom out

 

[mcgyvr]

Very few of us have microscopes..
But many of us can tell whats what from a normal picture..

I've never had dinos in my tanks (so far knock on wood) but from what I see there it looks like the images of dinos I've seen in others tanks..

You might want to check out this thread and even PM jason2459 with your microscope images or add to that thread..
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2567904

 

[Tripod1404]

Those are not bacteria, they have clear internal organelles (most likely chloroplast). They are most probably dinos.

 

[jjencek]

Thank you for the replies. I was hoping this was not dino, but ok. ... another challenge for me.

I am going to post some of this in the LONG thread about dino and see if anybody can identify the exact variety.

If I learn more, I will post the results here.

 

[jjencek]

To follow up ...

With the help of others in the dino thread, I believe we figured out what it is. Because it does not move and it is clustering, it is NOT dino. It should be diatoms. That of course is good news because they are much easier to deal with.

So I got cyano and diatom. I got them all surrounded (by thew tank glass). I am ready for the battle ...