Microscope fun!

[Holy_makerel]

Just got access to a microscope to play with. We are waiting on a camera for it so bear with my phone snaps through the eyepiece.

A few videos of some sand i grabbed.
I knew there would be lots of critters but there are more than i expected. Can anyone identify anything?


I believe this is some type of nemotode


PICS, coral skeletons:
Montipora-

Stuber stag-

Millipora-

Acro(not sure of species)-

Thanks for checking it out and I'll update as i can

 

[Paullawr]

Looks like a nemotode and dinoflagellates. Watch tank temps in spring as may result in flare up.

 

[Holy_makerel]

Looks like a nemotode and dinoflagellates. Watch tank temps in spring as may result in flare up.

Dinos are motile like that? I figured they were little single cell organisms. I imagine dinos as a bacterial mat, more stationary. I'll have to do some research. Thanks!

 

[Paullawr]

Dinos are motile like that? I figured they were little single cell organisms. I imagine dinos as a bacterial mat, more stationary. I'll have to do some research. Thanks!

Yes they move. :)

The flagella is used to propel most.

I wouldn't worry as I'm confident every tank has them just maintain stability and do not let your phosphate level drop to undetectable levels.

Its better to maintain detectable levels than not.

Whether the zero levels causes natural predators to starve or algaes to outcompete via allopathy or initiates a flight or fight response I don't know but its always these low levels that constitute a bloom.

There are other drivers as well, salinity changes, amino dosing, sand disturbance manually or via water changes., trace element addition.

Lots I'm afraid but the common one is temperature change.

 

[Holy_makerel]

Thank you for the info @Paullawr. My po4 hovers around 0.06ppm and nitrate at 10ppm. I've never had a dino bloom but but i don't doubt it's in my system.