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09/14/2017, 09:19 AM | #501 |
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Very cool. Is that cyano growing out of green algae?
Sample three was mostly green stuff. Samples 1 and 2 are the black stuff... the real mystery organisms.
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Coral_Tip_Sample03-0030 by Jason, on Flickr
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09/14/2017, 09:25 AM | #503 |
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Coral_Tip_Sample03-0040 by Jason, on Flickr
This is what I believe to be a type of cyano but haven't seen it in my system. A lot more of it in the other samples. Coral_Tip_Sample03-0041 by Jason, on Flickr Coral_Tip_Sample03-0042 by Jason, on Flickr Coral_Tip_Sample03-0043 by Jason, on Flickr Sometimes the pictures look out of focus but if you look around you'll see what I was focusing on. In this case it was the spirochete bacteria. They are pretty cool. Coral_Tip_Sample03-0044 by Jason, on Flickr Coral_Tip_Sample03-0045 by Jason, on Flickr Coral_Tip_Sample03-0046 by Jason, on Flickr Coral_Tip_Sample03-0047 by Jason, on Flickr Coral_Tip_Sample03-0048 by Jason, on Flickr
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09/14/2017, 09:30 AM | #504 |
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Here's the thick mass taken from the bag. Lots of cyano mixed with algae
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Can we have a little webinar where you go through what's what?
So much visual input - so little knowledge in my tiny head to know what I'm looking at. It's beautiful
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Coral_Tip_Sample03-0060 by Jason, on Flickr
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Coral_Tip_Sample03-0070 by Jason, on Flickr
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Video on flikr for now and will get up to youtube later. Click on the picture of link to see the video.
Coral_Tip_Sample03_01 by Jason, on Flickr Coral_Tip_Sample03_02 by Jason, on Flickr Coral_Tip_Sample03_03 by Jason, on Flickr Coral_Tip_Sample03_04 by Jason, on Flickr Coral_Tip_Sample03_05 by Jason, on Flickr Coral_Tip_Sample03_06 by Jason, on Flickr Coral_Tip_Sample03_07 by Jason, on Flickr There is one more video but looks like it failed to upload. I'll work on that once the black mat pictures and videos are up.
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Do you have any red algae like gracilaria
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09/14/2017, 10:10 AM | #510 |
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wait wait.. samples 1 and 2 are the black stuff.. sample 3 was mostly green hair
please do a sample 1... just some of it. I don't think it'll last a couple of weeks alive here's where the black mat hair in the tank
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09/14/2017, 10:47 AM | #512 |
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I just can't believe that that black hair that tenaciously stands up to the water flow is actually bacteria... and why black?
it only grows as a mat by physically spreading on rock - so rocks that are close can get infected, but those on the opposite side of the tank don't have any. it also comes off clean from the rock (no roots inside the rock) - come out in a solid section if I'm careful... not bacteria-like at all. More like a fungus ...
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09/14/2017, 10:52 AM | #513 |
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Sample from the overflow
Sliced on the left and pipette on the right
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Green algae, looks like some brown/red algae, and cyano.
Overflow_Sample04-0001 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0002 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0003 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0004 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0005 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0006 by Jason, on Flickr Found some sponge spicules Overflow_Sample04-0007 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0008 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0009 by Jason, on Flickr
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Overflow_Sample04-0010 by Jason, on Flickr
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Overflow_Sample04-0020 by Jason, on Flickr
Overflow_Sample04-0021 by Jason, on Flickr Found what looks like vibro Overflow_Sample04-0022 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0023 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0024 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0025 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0026 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0027 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0028 by Jason, on Flickr Overflow_Sample04-0029 by Jason, on Flickr
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Overflow_Sample04-0030 by Jason, on Flickr
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Found what looks like vibro through out
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Vids on flickr for now
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vibrio as in the flesh rotting bacteria!!!?? I thought that only infected people, not tanks.
Is that the little curved wormy things? I didn't see it in sample 3? just in the overflow samples?
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is that a worm eating pink coralline or gracillaria? I probably have some gracillaria but nothing I can see in the tank. My scrubber grows all kinds of algae and life... buy NONE of the black mat fuzz (BMF) got there.
I feel like a newborn seeing for the first time and I have no idea what to make of it.
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