microscope

I’ve been battling dinos and algae for some time. Finally got a microscope. Hopefully the image quality is good enough for a solid ID. I understand there are different ways to handle Dino species. Thanks in advance.

Ive got a brown/green/red slime on my sandbed. Its only on the sandbed, the rocks are completely clear of it. It does seem to disappear or get a lot less visible when the lights go out at night. It clumps together on the sandbed like a mat. It doesnt blow off like dust. I didnt used to clean...

Hello everyone and welcome to this little microscopy thread! Many hobbyists stumble upon microscopes once they are dealing with a pest they can't properly identify any other way. Besides their obvious usefulness when dealing with a problem, microscopes grant access to a whole new world many...

I have been having this water surface problem. Some type of green film has been building up. Manual removal does not work; it just comes back in hours. Anything it touches (equipment, fingers, containers) it sticks to. Today, I decided to put it under the microscope. It is not algae. It is a...

I am in the stage of diatoms and green algae growing all over my glass. Today I was looking at my glass when I noticed a small clear area. It wasn’t near any snail trails, so it made me curious. Eventually, I spotted a small white creature which made its home in a nearby green algae clump. In...

What kind of algae is this?

Anyone know what copepod is this? Any chance they could bother or annoy a fish like a Royal Gramma?

This critter is white, tiny can can see with naked eye with wavemaker off, I have two videos one is in black container, at 1x zoom that eyes can see Other is microscope video showing this critter (are they marine ostracods with more legs?) It is crawling everywhere in tank, also crawling...

Hi All, Went away for 5 weeks on vacation and came back to a mess of tanks! Tank is 3 years old, well established. Fought off LCA dinos about 6 months ago. This single cell organism has a lot more chloroplasts and is about 1/4 the size of the LCA that I had before. It doesn't have any amour...

Hi all, trying to figure out if I’m experiencing the start of dino’s in my system. They don’t look like dinos under the scope however they appear like them with stringy snot and looks as if they disappear when the lights go off. Hopefully the video is good enough! Thanks :)

On this video is tail dead bleny... ( There are thousands of them in one place . They're all moving. what is it? Is it Ich?

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It's an orangey brown color.

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

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:

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...