So, I bought a microscope...

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

Can any microbiologists or someone with knowledge please tell me what you can see in these photos and 1 video :)

 

[MarshallB]

Can't help you there, but man when I first looked at my tank through a microscope it really opened my eyes to just how much life is living in every drop of water.

 

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

Can't help you there, but man when I first looked at my tank through a microscope it really opened my eyes to just how much life is living in every drop of water.

Except I only see diatoms moving. My scope can go to 2000x

 

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

The pictures and vid are 200x and 400x.

 

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

Bump

 

[LeftyReefer]

what microscope did you get?

 

[Jubei2006]

So several of the pictures look like calcium carbonate crystals, a few other have fibrous debris. Air bubble in one. The video looks like a protozoan of some sort.

 

[ZoWhat]

I'm pretty sure you have the Delta Variant.... I'd get your affairs in order before you're put on a ventilator

 

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

I'm pretty sure you have the Delta Variant.... I'd get your affairs in order before you're put on a ventilator

What!?

 

[ZoWhat]

What!?

That brown looking organism is the Delta Variant. I'm pretty sure

 

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

More pics for @Jubei2006 and others.

 

[SaltwaterGuruNeeded]

what microscope did you get?

Omax 40x - 2000x

 

[Jubei2006]

So not an expert by any means on microscopic of marine tanks. Im a veterinarian by trade so I look for cell structure. The last picture, you can clearly see a cell wall, with green tinted vacuoles or nucleus. So a single celled organism. Diatom, protozoan, algae of some sort. The rest of them look like debris...so detritus, we get fibers from hairs (putting ungloved hands in tanks, dustbunnies from the house end up in there, fabric from clothing and such), probably some fish poo as well. If the water drys some on the slide, you'll start seeing salt crystals like in the earlier pics. Hope it helps some.

 

[LeftyReefer]

Omax 40x - 2000x

Nice.
I have a new microscope coming too.
I ordered the cheapest one I could find that had a mechanical stage on it.... hopefully it won't be too bad.
it probably isn't anywhere near as nice as the Omax, but it has similar specs. Vevor 40x-2000x compound Trinocular.

I also went for a cheap cell phone adapter/mount, rather than one of the dedicated microscope cameras. Hopefully I will be able to pull some useable pics of my tank critters before too long.