Bye Cyanobacteria!

[EnterName]

Here’s a blast…

Suppose the reason folks contend that tank maturity deters cyano is really just allowing for time to develop sufficient numbers of viruses that infect cyano to dominate….

Inquiring minds want to know!

Don't give them ideas... Next to bottled bacteria we will have bottled bacteriophages in the LFS aisles soon

 

[BeanAnimal]

Here’s a blast…

Suppose the reason folks contend that tank maturity deters cyano is really just allowing for time to develop sufficient numbers of viruses that infect cyano to dominate….

Inquiring minds want to know!

Full circle, it exposes how insanely complex and interwoven this all is, thought experiment of reality.

@Dan_P -- put that on the lab whiteboard for after the ugly stage experiments.

 

[Euphylliaphyle]

@Euphylliaphyle, discussions involving biology will always end up with many unanswered questions. It’s just the nature of biology.

The criticism was not about not having answers. Of course all science starts out without answers. It was about your tabloid-worthy headline. Take it or leave it. I'm not going to engage you further than this.

 

[RobertK]

There are three different algal targets being hunted in this video. The red circle is a diatom and it gets engulfed in the video. The blue circle is another type of diatom but I’m not sure how it ended for him as my phone ran out of memory and I was trying to sort it out. The yellow circle is possibly an algal zoospore and that also gets engulfed in the video.

Thanks for the reply. Whatever you are photographing is interesting! Can I ask what type of microscope you are using and at what magnification you are taking these photos and videos? I have a patch of cyano in my tank and want to have a look with my microscope to see if I see anything similar.

 

[sixty_reefer]

@RobertK, thank you. I’m using an old Leica CME microscope and a Celestron NexYZ 3-AXIS Universal Smartphone Adapter to collect images whith my phone. I find myself mainly using 100x and 400x. That particular video was taken at 400x.