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Spent a few minutes last night chasing critters around a drop of algae from my marine tank.
Mwraarrr!!
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)when I was a kid. I thought of getting a biology degree until I found out that you needed to take chemistry, too. Lol.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)that I suffered through chemistry (which was easy until you got to Organic Chemistry) as well as calculus and statistics (OMG) to get that biology degree. Lots of help that was to me......I work as a controller in a trucking company now. Go figure.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I ended up with a BS in psychology (mainly because I was taking a lot of psych courses as electives and was making A's in all of them), but worked most of my life as a legal secretary/paralegal -- after I SWORE I would never work in an office. Thank god for that one year of typing class in high school. Lol.
At least getting an education in those days didn't put you in debt for the rest of your life.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)One thing's for sure, you'll never feel the same way about getting a mouthful of saltwater at the beach again.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Are most of the diatoms? I am used to looking a pond water instead of salt water, so I am not sure of identifications. Is the critter pictured a Daphnia of some sort?
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)There are a few diatoms scattered throughout, lots of tiny bacteria (the corkscrew one is cyanobacteria..)
Offhand, that's all the ones I can identify.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)By the way, I think that you posted a link to your aquarium at one time, and I can't find it now......was that you? And could you repost it? I enjoyed it.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)This is a link to the USB microscope camera set up pointing at the sand.
Right now there seems to be a party of ostracods playing..
http://rowelab.com/fish/camera/fugecam.php
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)I can get a calmness in looking to see what is happening in the micro-world.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)A nematode and some dinoflagellates.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)As the lights came on this morning, I noticed a lot of tiny 'pods* crawling along the sand / water interface. Watch full screen for best effect.
* 'pods refer to any number of species of small crustaceans- amphipods, isopods, copepods, mostly.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Ain't nothing but a dino thang..
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)I was checking out the diversity in a sample of sand and came across this worm.
They usually build tubes of sand and mucous around themselves, kind of rare to see one 'naked'.
And here's a larger shot of an ostracod.
And a super tiny brittle star-