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  1. taylormaximus

    Amphidinium vs coolia Dinos

    Hey guys, just got a microscope to ID what's been covering my sand. It's a clumpy rust coloured coating on just the sandbed (not rocks or glass), it seems to be photosynthetic, but it doesn't disapate at night. When you stir it up it kind of strings the sand grains together, but the sand...
  2. M

    Help ID Dinos Microscope

    Hello, Can someone please Help me ID These Dinos ? Thank you very much :)
  3. liamelias

    Can someone help me ID Dinos Sample?

    I have been battling what I suspect is Dinos since it has wiped out my coral and my nutrients are 0. The following videos were taken of an algae sample with a cheap toy microscope. Apologies in advanced
  4. itelshot

    Does anyone has a Carson MicroFlip 100x-250x Pocket Microscope?

    I have recently ordered one from amazon, can anyone else give additional feedback about it in reef hoby especially? I recently had a dino outbreak - it forced me to consider a cheap microscope to make things easier with exact specie identification and same future things
  5. L

    Bug Identification - "White tick" and "Single tentacle worm"

    Hello! I run a 5 gallon PICO tank that until yesterday had no fish. I also feed phyto daily, so there has always been an abundance of wee beasties that have fascinated me. Most I've been able to identify (copepods, amphipods, munnid isopods, spinoid worms, spirorbid worms). However, there have...
  6. J

    Tiny black dots coming off chalice when dipping

    Hello Everyone, I recently set up a frag system and am trying to be very thorough about quarantining everything I introduce. A few months ago I purchased a chalice coral that has now been in quarantine for 60 days. Overall the coral appears to be in good health and has even grown a bit...
  7. vaguelyreeflike

    Cheap Microscope Recommendations

    I’m looking for a cheap ($100 or under) microscope for fish disease/algae/bacteria identification, just looking for some reviews or experience on better ones (I understand a $100 microscope will act like one haha). i plan on upgrading eventually, just need something for now that wont break...
  8. AlgaeBarn

    Pod poop?

    Now that we have your attention- check out our video under the microscope of a copepod pooping ;) :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing: What goes in..... must come out.... Due to the fact that phytoplankton removes CO2 from the atmosphere and copepods eat this phytoplankton, these pods are...
  9. ReefIO

    Reef safe? Hitchhikers found from dipping coral - inlcudes microscope images

    Just dipped a new Trumpet Coral with some CoralX and found these two 'lil creatures. Any idea what they are? 1) 2a) Assuming Front part of body 2b) also, assuming this is one creature unless it's two. But this would be what I'm considering the non-front part of one creatures - almost...
  10. Freddy0144

    MicroScope

    I have never thought of getting a Microscope to look at the coral, or other things in the tank. I decided that it is worth having, and they are rather inexpensive these days. I ended up getting The reason I like this one is that I can place a frag on a plug in a small jar saltwater and...
  11. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    What is all this? (Microscope Pics)

    It's an orangey brown color.
  12. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    Goby White poop with microscope pics. Anything harmful?

    Here is the goby's poop and the microscope pics show the white part of it. Can't believe he pooped all this out at once... (Vid at bottom) 1. 2. 3. 4. (Video) filmed at 100x and 400x https://youtube.com/shorts/vmXGkAn8VaE?feature=share
  13. S

    Anyone know what these microscopic bugs are? ID

    Hi, I’ve just finished cycling my tank and I’ve put a grain of sand under the microscope to see this? There like little bugs zooming round near/next to the grain of sand. Anyone know what it is? Is it bad or is it the bacteria that came with the live sand? Thanks :) Here is the video of microscope:
  14. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    Aquarium microscopy findings (vids + pics). Pls identify..

    Pictures: 1. 40x 2. 400x w/about 3x phone zoom. 3. 400x w/phone zoom 4. 400x w/phone zoom Video's: 1. https://youtube.com/shorts/qaQsbLgK8aY?feature=share 2. https://youtube.com/shorts/atK1P4RrnsI?feature=share 3. https://youtube.com/shorts/ABMkETU_Rps?feature=share 4...
  15. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    So, recently my tang died. Could any of these be a cause of death? Microscope Pics.

    Maybe a copepod? Harmless? A ciliate? Is it harmful? Guessing these are a type of dinoflagellate. Harmful? No idea what this is... And this is my tangs Flesh...after he died. Thinking he may have died from flesh eating worms or flukes.
  16. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    Tang Dead, Microscope Autopsy. Help ID.

    Are there anything in these findings that would've killed my tang? He was breathing kinda fast starting yesterday or the day before...He died this morning. If you have suggestions I could go back and try to get a better picture of something. @vetteguy53081 Let me know if I should take...
  17. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    Red bacteria on clownfish!? Micro pics.

    I took a gentle skin scrape off one of my clownfish and found red bacteria moving very slowly. Should I be concerned? And could the picture be a fluke of some sort? Btw they are taken at 800x And I've been using prazipro for about 2 1/2 to 3 weeks now.
  18. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    Algae's I.D.'s please!

    I know what this one is... Small cell amphidinium Dinoflagellates. 1. This is some weird brown algae almost has a Coralline brown dot attached to the rock with a string piece coming off I think. 2. 200x 800x Some green stuff... 3. 80x 200x 800x Random microscope pics that...
  19. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    Clownfish skin scrape, any diseases?

    Do you see any thing worry some in these microscope pictures? 1. 1(1). 2. 2(1). 3. 3(1). 4. 4(1). Any help would be greatly appreciated. @Jay Hemdal do you see anything? And if you don't see anything what power should I look at for a bacterial infection or the flukes?
  20. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    Microscope Skin Scrape I.D. 2000x

    Does anyone/ microbiologists know what these things are, I believe my fish have a bacterial infection, just trying to find out if anything in these pics are worry some? And what to look for when I do a skin scrape. 1. 2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9. These are just from my rock and water in tank: 200x -800x...
  21. SaltwaterGuruNeeded

    So, I bought a microscope...

    Can any microbiologists or someone with knowledge please tell me what you can see in these photos and 1 video :)
  22. DeNovice

    Can someone check this scope video out for ID?

    I have some brownish stringy algae on the sand bed. Here’s some scope pictures with a link to the video. One person said diatoms already but I’d like to get that confirmed. Thanks! https://youtube.com/shorts/bIbPYK4BhB4?feature=share
  23. paddle41773

    Microscope ID. Ritter

    LPS a ting funny last few days, pulled sample off an elegance, 400x showed this guy. Doesnt resemble a pod? What am I looking at?
  24. sotsreef

    Microscope ID help (diatoms,dinos?)

  25. The Fish Tank Hobbyist

    A microscope view - what’s in this culture of nannochloropsis?

    Anyone have any idea what has made its way into my culture of nannochloropsis? Here is a quick video or 2 under the microscope: Link: AND DIRECT UPLOAD BELOW (IF IT WORKS)
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