Best affordable microscope | Reef2Reef
Dec 30, 2018 · IMO, an inexpensive microscope is just fine for what we're doing. All you need is a 4x, 10x, and 40x objectives. I wouldn't go any higher than 100x. When you add the 10x eye piece... these now translate into 4x = 40x, 10x = 100x, 40x = 400x, and 100x = 1000x. I rarely find myself going beyond 400x magnification.
Ich, Velvet, Brook, Uronema - Microscopic ID | Reef2Reef
Nov 9, 2014 · Fig. 1. Cryptocaryon irritans. Illustrations in the double-layered medium (A to F) and further development after transfer to seawater (G to I). (A) Theront just after inoculation, (B) trophont at Hour 4 PI, (C) trophont in a hollow-like empty space, (D) fully developed trophonts, (E) ruptured trophont (right), (F) tomont-like cyst formed in a ...
Dinoflagellate Identification Guide | Reef2Reef
Dec 12, 2019 · This needs to run in/out of the display itself, not the sump. Slow flow. 4) Manual removal: clip some sheets of filter floss to the sides of the glass in high flow high light areas where dinos like to be. Rinse each evening. 6) Run activated carbon. Replace often. Toxin removal. 7) No phyto, no aminos, no coral foods.
Dino’s or cyano or what? | Reef2Reef - REEF2REEF Saltwater and …
Jun 19, 2018 · 0 0 0. You have a cyano problem. Red and green slime cyano I️t looks like. They often have air bubbles attached to it. I️ would use chemiclean and make sure to fix your phosphates and nitrates, you may have a buildup somewhere. For the immediate time being do a water change and try to siphon and scrub most of I️t off.
Nuisance Algae Identification and Removal Guide | Reef2Reef
Feb 5, 2022 · Scientific Description: A variety of green filamentous algae are lumped together under Green Hair Algae, because identification requires a microscope. Manual Removal - yank it out. If it is growing from the sand sift it out with a net. Clean Up Crew- Blue Legs, bigger hermits, turbos, limpets, chitons
Uronema / Red Band Disease - Hemdal | Reef2Reef
Nov 13, 2020 · Uronema is an elongate oval ciliated motile protozoan up to 40 um in length, which can become an opportunistic pathogen in marine aquariums. Because it is so generic-looking, identification in the field is always provisional. Most professional aquarists actually mean “ Uronema -like” when they say “ Uronema ”.
Dinos or cyano? | Reef2Reef
Jun 15, 2021 · One way to tell is to turn off lights for an entire day and turn back on next morning. Cyano will literally lighten or dissipate whereas Dino will stick around. You can also blow loose with a turkey baster, and net it. As it falls apart, cyano will stick together whereas dino will fall apart in many pieces.
A Dinoflagellate Treatment Guide | Reef2Reef
Jan 12, 2022 · The mucus could be reddish, brown, gold, or in between. They can take over rock, sand, glass, plastics, even a refugium. They can be confused with diatoms, cyanobacteria, bacterial film and chrysophytes to name a common few. Good news: you don't need a microscope to find out if the gunk is dinoflagellates. The coffee filter test:
Positive identification of cyanobacteria | Reef2Reef
Jun 14, 2016 · Absolutely 2 different forms of bacteria with 2 different options of treatment. So let's get onto finding the positive identification of the bacterium. Take a portion of that red mat you see in your tank and place it into a cup with about 2 cups of tank water. Now add 1ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide. Over the course of several hours you may start ...
Cyano or Dino? How do you tell the difference? | Reef2Reef
Jul 17, 2022 · Cyano generally associated with elevated nitrate and phosphate whereas Dino is associated with very Low to zero nitrate and phosphate. Both are photosynthetic and love light for growth. Dino is a flagellate and cyano is a bacterial algae. Dec 2, 2022.