Gordonious
08/26/2006, 03:12 PM
Ok, I've noticed a bit of fuzz on the sides of my glass tank and hadn't paid to much attention to it until today when I was trying to look close for algae growth. The fuzz on the sides seem to be hundreds and hundreds of little organisms. Right now I am hoping they are a juvenile stage of some sort of micro star or a copepods. I took a couple of photos because it seems I can see smaller things better with 5 megapixels then 2 eyes.:-) Heres what I have:
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Most of these "dots" sway with the current from the power head and then one of the swaying dots will scurry a couple of cm then go back to swaying. The smallest dots are about half a mm in size and look cone shaped to me.(snails and such can not move as fast though and would not sway in the water)<BR>
The largest almost look like little brittle stars, but then again they are still maybe 1mm in size max, so it is a little hard to see. I say brittle stars because it looks as if there are circular discs in the center surrounded with what looks like little legs spread evenly around. These little legs almost look segmented, but they would be huge segments compared to the small segments on most brittle's legs. Here is a photo of the larger ones:
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You can see that some of the "leg" type thingy-ma-bobbers could also be antenna typical of most copepods. Though I do not know many copepods this size, know they exist but don't know species and haven't seen many photos.
Let me know what you think.
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Most of these "dots" sway with the current from the power head and then one of the swaying dots will scurry a couple of cm then go back to swaying. The smallest dots are about half a mm in size and look cone shaped to me.(snails and such can not move as fast though and would not sway in the water)<BR>
The largest almost look like little brittle stars, but then again they are still maybe 1mm in size max, so it is a little hard to see. I say brittle stars because it looks as if there are circular discs in the center surrounded with what looks like little legs spread evenly around. These little legs almost look segmented, but they would be huge segments compared to the small segments on most brittle's legs. Here is a photo of the larger ones:
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You can see that some of the "leg" type thingy-ma-bobbers could also be antenna typical of most copepods. Though I do not know many copepods this size, know they exist but don't know species and haven't seen many photos.
Let me know what you think.