Our tank's biology up close

OllieNZ · Oct 21, 2016

Wow, it's been a while since I've used a microscope and was always fascinated by what I saw.
Thank you for sharing.

jason2459 · Oct 21, 2016

OllieNZ said:
Wow, it's been a while since I've used a microscope and was always fascinated by what I saw.
Thank you for sharing.

Time to brush off the dust.

I enjoy it more right now then looking through the panes of glass aka my tank holding my water samples for the microscope. :thumbsup:

jason2459 · Oct 21, 2016

jason2459 · Oct 21, 2016

It's not under the microscope but here's a couple amphipods building a burrow together that I thought was really cool.

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This was previously posted in this thread of a baby amphipod under the microscope. One of my favorite pictures so far.

ReefWreak · Oct 21, 2016

Thanks for posting all of these, for updates, and for the index here. Really cool stuff. I'm going through your Bio-spira and Microbacter 7 (and other product) videos. Neat to see what's really out there.

I wish I knew more about biology at the microscopic level, to be able to better interpret what I'm seeing. I can figure out some basic cellular structure pieces, but identification by function or even species of organism is over my head. Need to find some books on the subject...

bertoni · Oct 22, 2016

This thread has been too much fun not to sticky it.

OllieNZ · Oct 22, 2016

bertoni said:
This thread has been too much fun not to sticky it.

+1
The little people vote for a sticky

jason2459 · Oct 22, 2016

Wow, thank you!

jason2459 · Oct 24, 2016

Google is celebrating Antoni van Leeuwenhoek 384th birthday today.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Ant...oeks-384th-birthday-5116176595156992-hp&hl=en

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch tradesman and scientist. He is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and considered to be the first microbiologist. Wikipedia
Born: October 24, 1632, Delft, Netherlands
Died: August 26, 1723, Delft, Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
Spouse: Barbara de Mey (m. 1654–1666)
Books: The Select Works of Antony Van Leeuwenhoek: Containing His Microscopical Discoveries in Many of the Works of Nature, More

http://www.history-of-the-microscope.org/anton-van-leeuwenhoek-microscope-history.php

jason2459 · Oct 25, 2016

Not that I need an excuse to want to put something under the microscope but I certainly couldn't let Antony Van Leeuwenhoek's birthday go by with out doing so.

Grabbed a sample from my favorite place so far. My ATS.

Double cover slips for tonight's celebration.

jason2459 · Oct 25, 2016

That was by far the largest sample I've looked at under the microscope so far. I kind of nodded off last night a couple times while watching.

Lots of pods, Tons of diatoms, and a LOT more bacteria then I've seen before. Bacteria in a bottle has nothing on my tank. lol

I also found right away a very active ostracod whicg was very cool. Usually they aren't doing much of anything when I have seen them before.

I also got a very long video, which I nodded off at least once while recording, of a ciliate splitting.

Uploads coming.

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Our tank's biology up close

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