there are thousands of species of Cynobacteria, what species is that. Why are you raising cyno? It’s my understanding that Spirulina is a popular ediable cynobacteria.
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100xHere's another culture, doesn't it look nice and dark green? This is cyano
Tetraselmis will eventually settle but it takes many hours. It's motile.
You probably have tetraselmis at the top and something else that settles out like that.
Tank looks great! I'm not really one to make assumptions which is why i recommend checking.
Unlike your aquarium, we cannot assess the quality of phyto by visual appearance. If you are making changes to methods just be careful - phds have determined recommended culture parameters based on extensive testing. I don't think you can improve on this without even a microscope.
That's not tet, too small. This is tet at ~100x. That looks to be the size of bacteria.100x
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Can you tell what it is?
Regardless of what it is, it doesn't appear to be hurting anything. I've been dosing it daily for a year and a half now.
Ah, that definitely looks like it. It appears to be beneficial, so I guess I'll stay the course. Thanks for the info!People here across the pond culture and dose Synechococcus (green cyano that looks exactly like that) all the time to feed the tank and to outcompete red cyano.
Interesting to me that my hunch was correct, and yet you're all still mad at me, lol.@fryman
Interesting that your focus is on the purity of the food culture and my only interest is health of the reef tank.
At least it doesn't seem to be overly harmful. As with anything, there's almost religious wars over whether it's a gift from heaven or the poison that will kill your reef, especially because it shares a name with the object of many peoples'hate, but it does seem to work for it's main application of replacing ugly red cyano mats with free floating green cyano that's not really noticeable. There might be occasional green mats because of it but imho those are not nearly as ugly and seem to be less frequent too.Ah, that definitely looks like it. It appears to be beneficial, so I guess I'll stay the course. Thanks for the info!
You give yourself too much credit. Mad has nothing to do with it. You think it’s important and I don’t think it makes that much differrence. My proof is my reef tank.Interesting to me that my hunch was correct, and yet you're all still mad at me, lol.
It's ok, I understand.
Not the whole truth. Many of the pelagic cyanobacteria are fixators - it means that they do not need NH3/NH4 and/or NO3 as an inorganic N supplier - they fix it with help of N2 gas Synechococcus is normally seen as a non fixator - but there is strains that have been shown recently to fixate N2Cyano consumes nitrate and phosphate, and grows very fast. Maybe it's better for this purpose than chaeto?
Synechococcus - a cyanobacteria genus - is sometimes the dominating phytoplankton genera in the seas. There is rather much evidence that it is the staple food for many not photosynthesizing corals - IMOSome animals may be able to eat either/or, but many cannot.
To be honest, I was expecting a “you’re an idiot” response. Wait for it;I like a good hobbyist experiment. I’m going to start adding a drop of f2 daily but without the addition of live Phyto, to see what happens, if anything.