microalgae

Im baffled is this a diatom or what...

Hi there, have had slightly cloudy water and took a sample to find this guy. Not sure what type of algae this is. It has at least 2 Flagella, and is present when the lights are on. No sign of slime. Moves quickly as well. If anyone has any idea what genus this belongs to, that’d be great! Oil...

Hey guys, Is anybody using raw spirulina powder to feed your copepods (or other types of zooplankton), corals or other creatures like fish? I use an addition of spirulina in fish food and I would like to use it more, as it's healthy and cheap, but I wonder how successful would I be with a...

I am super curious why there isn’t more information on Dunaliella Salina. It would seem one of the most amazing extremophiles there is. Yet there is so little actually available about it other than carotenoids blah blah. I take this to mean there is no benefit to our systems then?

What is this that is taking over my tank!? These are the best pictures I could get with my son’s microscope. But I figure someone out there might be able to I.D. what it is…. At first I thought dinos or diatoms because they came back worse when I cleaned them and did water changes. After...