Our tank's biology up close

[jason2459]

They seem to like to congregate together. I followed a couple for quite some time. Video posting later

 

[jason2459]

Cyano just falling to pieces

Dino looking like they burst

 

[taricha]

Hey. Hope you don't mind me posting a couple of vids in your thread, it seemed like the best fit. But I'd be happy to remove if you prefer. Was wondering if you'd seen anything similar?

Pruning some kenya tree, looked at a drop squeezed out from it. Lots of round brown zooxanthellae. But also surprised to find smaller, less pigmented, irregular shaped, rapidly wiggling spinning things in the sample too. They seemed to glob up and accumulate other material nearby.
I googled images of the motile phase of symbiodinium, but they have the same pigmentation and approximate size as the others. Didn't seem a match.

medium power
https://youtu.be/WunSk22PK94

higher power
https://youtu.be/bkH76hE0Bc4

I also saw the same thing from pulsing xenia sample.

 

[jason2459]

Very nice. I have a bunch of xenia in my mantis tank I want to do that with.

 

[NHorton]

Very cool thread. Thanks for taking the time to post these.

 

[Kymaro]

Wonderful! What a great blast from my past in Microbiology! Thanks for all the pictures! :thumbsup:

 

[jason2459]

Thanks and thanks. More to come and need to get a bunch I've done recently posted.

 

[bertoni]

Yes, this thread is a lot of fun.

 

[jason2459]

Thank you! Ive been side tracked working on many home projects including getting my basement sump room built

This is now live and review/testing multiple configurations on that mtc mvx skimmer

Getting my little basic lab table setup

And testing out a treatment for dinoflagellates. But I've got a lot of pictures I want to get posted in this thread very soon from that testing.

 

[jason2459]

Lets get this going again and with a bang

Detritus from my ATS

Pics and videos uploading. And I finally got to capture cell division. Several times. And very much up close. I hope the video came out. It was awesome seeing it rip apart at 2500x.

 

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[Fiver]

Wow! Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

 

[dacostas]

Freaking awesome. Thanks so much for sharing this!


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[jason2459]

Thanks!

Here's the video playlist
ATS Detritus: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN_wI2B-a8vrnFqfSgjhKq3e95SQiyUJx

 

[jason2459]

Just after the 3minute and 30 second mark ripping itself off close up
https://youtu.be/rQK20qo09m4

The video after this one shows a big split farther out.

 

[jason2459]

7 minutes 15 seconds or so possibly producing some type of gas bubbles just after it swarms around what looks like possibly encysted dinos. This things is cool. This is just before the little ball split up.

https://youtu.be/R9u07AdAU_k