Our tank's biology up close - Page 7

jason2459 · 09/13/2016, 07:50 PM

Thanks everyone. I love the exploration and leaning.

jason2459 · 09/28/2016, 09:23 PM

Needed a break from testing parameters and work and everything

Took this sample from the surface of a rock that didn't look like it had anything on it.

Man is it just full of life. I just can't get enough of this stuff. Always seeing something different too

I'm still watching and taking a pretty long video of an amoeba.

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Video Playlist

Rock Surface: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...E4mad4xTwH_fr6

bertoni · 09/29/2016, 08:45 PM

That last picture looks a bit like a Stomatella. What's the magnification?

jason2459 · 09/29/2016, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bertoni

That last picture looks a bit like a Stomatella. What's the magnification?

The last picture would have been with a 10x lens so a little over 100x. The picture above it is of the molt of a pod close up which is also in that last picture but with the 40x lens so that one is something over 400x.

I'm not exactly sure what the camera magnification is. Its stronger then when I look through the 10x wide field eye pieces but slightly less then the 25x eyepieces.

I wish my phone kept them in order.

Here it is all together

Adjusted the white balance

bertoni · 09/30/2016, 06:51 PM

Nice shots!

jason2459 · 09/30/2016, 07:39 PM

Thanks. I'm still getting used to the camera software as it has a lot of features.

Ghost25 · 10/02/2016, 01:25 AM

Cool pics Jason! I also have these soft red worms in my reef tank, any idea what they are? I'm jealous of your microfauna diversity, how old is your tank?

A quick video of some stuff in my tank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCZq98RKS4

jason2459 · 10/02/2016, 07:36 AM

Nice video. I've had this running since 2009. It's been through a couple moves and an upgrade from a 55g to a 180g. I also use minimal mechanical filtration. A skimmer and around a 1% daily automatic water change. No filter socks.

The red organisms are a type of walking ciliate.

Here's one up close. Something over 1000x and you can see the "legs"

https://youtu.be/67fKqn7ynJc

jason2459 · 10/07/2016, 11:28 PM

I went hunting for pods tonight. Particularly the Tigriopus genus. And more specifically the female. I've found plenty of males.

Here's a great life cycle stage of one of the types of tigriopus up to sexual maturity and you can see the difference between female(second to last) and male(last).

I finally not only found one but found one with a couple eggs left attached! Pretty cool and man the females are fast. Like really fast. It looks like I'm watching a move skipping fames while watching them through the eye pieces. Faster then my eyes could process.

Found them in this what seems to be nothing. Which was sucked up of a rock under my bubble tips.

Pics and vids transfering now.

Ghost25 · 10/07/2016, 11:50 PM

Very cool! I spent some time checking out the microfauna with a loupe but I haven't gotten any good images of this sized stuff except a Montipora eating nudibranch. Any more microfauna animals you took pics of?

jason2459 · 10/08/2016, 07:11 AM

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jason2459 · 10/08/2016, 07:19 AM

Found 2 females

jason2459 · 10/08/2016, 07:20 AM

A few eggs left

jason2459 · 10/08/2016, 07:22 AM

09/13/2016, 07:50 PM	#151
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Thanks everyone. I love the exploration and leaning. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

09/28/2016, 09:23 PM	#152
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Needed a break from testing parameters and work and everything Took this sample from the surface of a rock that didn't look like it had anything on it. Man is it just full of life. I just can't get enough of this stuff. Always seeing something different too I'm still watching and taking a pretty long video of an amoeba. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

09/29/2016, 05:41 PM	#153
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	__________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

09/29/2016, 05:42 PM	#154
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	__________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

09/29/2016, 05:43 PM	#155
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	__________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

09/29/2016, 05:45 PM	#156
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	__________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

09/29/2016, 05:47 PM	#157
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	__________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

09/29/2016, 05:50 PM	#158
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	__________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

09/29/2016, 05:52 PM	#159
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	__________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

09/29/2016, 05:54 PM	#160
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	__________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

09/29/2016, 05:55 PM	#161
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	__________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

09/29/2016, 07:40 PM	#162
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Video Playlist Rock Surface: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...E4mad4xTwH_fr6 __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

09/29/2016, 08:45 PM	#163
bertoni RC Mod Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mountain View, CA, USA Posts: 88,616	That last picture looks a bit like a Stomatella. What's the magnification? __________________ Jonathan Bertoni

09/30/2016, 06:51 PM	#165
bertoni RC Mod Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mountain View, CA, USA Posts: 88,616	Nice shots! __________________ Jonathan Bertoni

09/30/2016, 07:39 PM	#166
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Thanks. I'm still getting used to the camera software as it has a lot of features. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

10/02/2016, 01:25 AM	#167
Ghost25 Registered Member Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 143	Cool pics Jason! I also have these soft red worms in my reef tank, any idea what they are? I'm jealous of your microfauna diversity, how old is your tank? A quick video of some stuff in my tank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCZq98RKS4

10/02/2016, 07:36 AM	#168
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Nice video. I've had this running since 2009. It's been through a couple moves and an upgrade from a 55g to a 180g. I also use minimal mechanical filtration. A skimmer and around a 1% daily automatic water change. No filter socks. The red organisms are a type of walking ciliate. Here's one up close. Something over 1000x and you can see the "legs" https://youtu.be/67fKqn7ynJc __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

10/07/2016, 11:28 PM	#169
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	I went hunting for pods tonight. Particularly the Tigriopus genus. And more specifically the female. I've found plenty of males. Here's a great life cycle stage of one of the types of tigriopus up to sexual maturity and you can see the difference between female(second to last) and male(last). I finally not only found one but found one with a couple eggs left attached! Pretty cool and man the females are fast. Like really fast. It looks like I'm watching a move skipping fames while watching them through the eye pieces. Faster then my eyes could process. Found them in this what seems to be nothing. Which was sucked up of a rock under my bubble tips. Pics and vids transfering now. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

10/07/2016, 11:50 PM	#170
Ghost25 Registered Member Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 143	Very cool! I spent some time checking out the microfauna with a loupe but I haven't gotten any good images of this sized stuff except a Montipora eating nudibranch. Any more microfauna animals you took pics of?

10/08/2016, 07:11 AM	#171
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	__________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

10/08/2016, 07:16 AM	#172
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	__________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

10/08/2016, 07:19 AM	#173
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Found 2 females __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank Last edited by jason2459; 10/08/2016 at 07:30 AM.

10/08/2016, 07:20 AM	#174
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	A few eggs left __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank Last edited by jason2459; 10/08/2016 at 07:29 AM.

10/08/2016, 07:22 AM	#175
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	__________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank