Rhodope placozophagus (Heterobranchia) a new species of turbellarian-like Gastropoda that preys on Placozoans. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 270(4)
@@rodrigocuervo885 By tuberllarian-like Gastropoda, and the lack of an outer shell, is it correct to call it a micro slug? EDIT: I'm having a laugh at how the term I used makes it sound like a kind of bullet 😂
Those ‘bricks’ are actually extremely porous ceramic blocks designed to provide a tremendous amount of surface area for the growth of beneficial bacteria.
7:27 That worm moves in a very linear fashion, in our biology class we were taught flatworms have to wiggle because unlike annelids they lack the necessary muscles to move in straight lines.
Flatworms have all the muscles orientations of annelids (circular and longitudinal, circular muscle are lacking in nematodes, or roundworms though and that's why they wiggle :) ), but it doesn't move this way thanks to muscles but thanks to ciliation (and external ciliation is missing in nematodes as well :) )
From an outside perspective asking for aquarium gunk is maybe a weird question. But from one biology nerd to another, it is a completely valid and actually very exciting question. Great to see new stuff in this video because of the different source material!
During my PhD thesis, we used to sample worms (Nerilla) from the sand of an aquarium we were working with at the university of Copenhagen :) Totally legit ! And there are possibly new species to discover there !
7:32 Edit: Another commenter had stated that it is a mollusk in the family rhodopidae, upon further reading the organism in question strongly resembles that strange group of snails.
This is awesome! I operate a coral farm in Kansas as a side buisness while I am in college. I am majoring in molecular biology. Additionally, I am currently doing research isolating a pure culture of a pathogen that affects coral in the family euphyllia. If you ever want any more samples I'd be happy to provide!
@@derAtze I'm sure the next video about them will go over it, but their bristles are like fiberglass splinters that break off in your skin and itch and burn. There have been plenty of times picking up a rock in a tank and I feel something squishy and think, "Please be a sponge, PLEASE be a sponge." Nope, finger full of bristles. They're not bad for a tank - they help clean up uneaten food and other organic waste, and the larva can be food. But I still don't want them!
Oh man, I’m both terrified and stoked for the bristle worm episode. I worked in a salt water aquarium and cleaning those little buggers out was the WORST.
@@CapriUni wow really? When the 1st time i watches tha cartoon i was like "pfftt, why sponge and pineapple inder the sea??" After sooooo many years today i was like "wait what? It was a thing? It was an actual living thing?? 🤯"
@@BusyraKhiarafif well, not according strictly to the lore, because there is an episode with the pineapple falling from the ship. But probably a reference yes, because sometimes his house shows the intelligence.
What a score! It's cool to see some new faces with some stellar new environs. Many thanks to the people at Coralaxy and the JttM folks who make this possible.
YES! Some aquarium stuff!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Also this is going to sound dumb, but if you guys need samples from Pond Water, I got it! And I also have fish tanks, and a lizard enclosure! I've had parasites in my 20 gallon Vortacilla, so if you guys need anything I'll send samples literally for free because microbiology is so cool!
James - I'm such a fan of you! You truly are a trooper! Loads of love from your neighbour to your North ❤️🤗 and Hank! Lovely voice work - as lovely as the Schubert concert I went to this Sunday! This journey to the Microcosmos is as lovely as the Winter's travel I just went through 😙❤️🤗
Thanks to all of you who collaborate to bring us these wonderful and informative videos! And thank you Hank for your wonderful narration and your wonderful voice 😊🙏🙏
Another fascinating video! I love this channel. The narration combined with the calming music makes all of the videos very soothing. Excellent work James, Hank and team! 😊👏❤
Hey, love your videos! But did you change your mic or something? I kinda liked the other more.. it made your voice "warmer" and "fuller". The low end on the other one was deeper, like a warm hug ☺️
Gosh how relaxing! I'm sitting here at work doing various projects in an entire other language entirely and this video is like science background music. His voice just brings calm to this nerd heart of mine.
Very interesting to see that potential flatworm! I believe I may have seen those rod-like structures inside of it many years ago, except in my case it was a single one, and it was out on its own. At the time I just thought it was a small dead flatworm on my slide and really dismissed it. Most of what I had on that slide was actually an incredible amount of Catenulid flatworms, so maybe that's a decent guess? The thing is that I believe that they're freshwater worms, while those coral aquariums probably have too high salinity for these worms to survive. In any case, if you're interested I might be able to find some old (low quality) pictures of it.
This footage is so good, you should make an educational show episode that is like the ones on National Geographic. The scenes and narration and sound effects.
I recently got to start using a microscope that magnifies to 400x. I had never really looked in one before, but I brought sea water to look at and I'm 90% sure I saw two marine gastrotrichs in there. It looked very similar to the creature here. It's frustrating to look at all these strange creatures and shapes and I don't know what any of them are hehe. Where would one start to look for identifying microscopic life?
What a cool idea for samples, James @JamsGerms ! I recently started watching reef aquarium videos and thought this was really neat to see the microcosm-level life side of things. Thank you! PS - I watch a lot from Danny's Aquariums; I think you are all in The Netherlands?
I finally got some time to look at my tank under a scope a little bit ago. It was great. Totally recommend it if your into microscopy, and identifying the "other organisms" in your tank. Red cyano is great to watch. It's like tangled red spaghetti constantly in motion. Very mesmerizing, even if I'd rather it not be in my tank. Lol
It would be really cool to get more exotic samples from around the world. Maybe Antarctica ice, sediment from deep ocean floor. Any weird stuff you wouldn't see in a puddle.
Are these done in a sort of bowl that is able to hold this stuff yet still be seen through like a slide, or is it done with something more capable than a desk microscope? I think I've got atleast 400x with the extended monocular and just the 10x let alone 25x + zoom lens. I don't know about moving a slide under the 40x when it may be pressing on the slide cover. Would you guys ever show the prep and storage process for these sort of macro things? Maybe an episode with microbes,and then 3rd person of James actually setting up, and then viewing, and then resealing the microbes safely?
Rhodope placozophagus (Heterobranchia) a new species of turbellarian-like Gastropoda that preys on Placozoans. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 270(4)
In Germany, die Farm can also raise not-pet animals (Nutztierfarm -> Use-posessing animal farm ; German is even shorter!) and therefore become a Schweine(swine)/Rinder(cattle)/Schaf(obvious)/Hühner(chicken)farm. Stolzmonat! 🇩🇪 I also loved the video about corals (Korallen) and microorganisms as I do almost always
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The "posible flatworm" is indeed a mollusk of the genus Rhodope.
:)
Rhodope placozophagus (Heterobranchia) a new species of turbellarian-like Gastropoda that preys on Placozoans. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 270(4)
Wow, it must feel good to answer a question about a subject of which you wrote the only paper concerning it
Though at first look it seems to be a different species to the one you described :) (cool description btw :) )
Congrats
@@rodrigocuervo885
By tuberllarian-like Gastropoda, and the lack of an outer shell, is it correct to call it a micro slug?
EDIT: I'm having a laugh at how the term I used makes it sound like a kind of bullet 😂
Those ‘bricks’ are actually extremely porous ceramic blocks designed to provide a tremendous amount of surface area for the growth of beneficial bacteria.
Oh cool! Awesome brick
You all make everyone's day much better, please continue to make these videos and take breaks as you all need them!
7:27 That worm moves in a very linear fashion, in our biology class we were taught flatworms have to wiggle because unlike annelids they lack the necessary muscles to move in straight lines.
Flatworms have all the muscles orientations of annelids (circular and longitudinal, circular muscle are lacking in nematodes, or roundworms though and that's why they wiggle :) ), but it doesn't move this way thanks to muscles but thanks to ciliation (and external ciliation is missing in nematodes as well :) )
@@nicolasbekkouche7153 thanks for clarifying!
From an outside perspective asking for aquarium gunk is maybe a weird question. But from one biology nerd to another, it is a completely valid and actually very exciting question. Great to see new stuff in this video because of the different source material!
During my PhD thesis, we used to sample worms (Nerilla) from the sand of an aquarium we were working with at the university of Copenhagen :) Totally legit ! And there are possibly new species to discover there !
7:32 Edit: Another commenter had stated that it is a mollusk in the family rhodopidae, upon further reading the organism in question strongly resembles that strange group of snails.
Mollusk? That one?
Hank sounds so chill and relaxed that I always see a few microcosmos episodes before going to bed.
This is awesome! I operate a coral farm in Kansas as a side buisness while I am in college. I am majoring in molecular biology. Additionally, I am currently doing research isolating a pure culture of a pathogen that affects coral in the family euphyllia. If you ever want any more samples I'd be happy to provide!
I've always loved the channel - this perfectly combines my love for microbiology and coral - great video
Sick, I hope they take you up on your offer. Good luck with your degree. 👍
Wish I could have mixed social and actual sciences at my university...
Might be my imagination, but the algae @5:35 looks like they're in a 3d Sierpiński triangle formation.
I saw it too!
Excited to see a bristle worm... as an aquarium hobbyist, no thank you! I've found way too many of them the "fun" way.
Non-aquarium hobbyist here, what do you mean by "fun"? 😅
@@derAtze they sting
@@Mrshutter ahh... Makes sense
@@derAtze I'm sure the next video about them will go over it, but their bristles are like fiberglass splinters that break off in your skin and itch and burn. There have been plenty of times picking up a rock in a tank and I feel something squishy and think, "Please be a sponge, PLEASE be a sponge." Nope, finger full of bristles.
They're not bad for a tank - they help clean up uneaten food and other organic waste, and the larva can be food. But I still don't want them!
@@RhynoD2 Don't gloves help?
So nice for the coral people to give a bunch of stuff! This channel is such a delight and I wished my biology class showed this to us instead
Oh man, I’m both terrified and stoked for the bristle worm episode.
I worked in a salt water aquarium and cleaning those little buggers out was the WORST.
Now i understood why sponge bob living in a pineapple under the sea
Y'know, that might actually be the reason.
Well, Stephen Hillenburg *was* a marine biologist before he turned his attention to cartooning.
@@CapriUni wow really? When the 1st time i watches tha cartoon i was like "pfftt, why sponge and pineapple inder the sea??"
After sooooo many years today i was like "wait what? It was a thing? It was an actual living thing?? 🤯"
@@BusyraKhiarafif well, not according strictly to the lore, because there is an episode with the pineapple falling from the ship. But probably a reference yes, because sometimes his house shows the intelligence.
@@bromibromi O
Everything on this channel is just so darn interesting! Great job, as always!
What a score! It's cool to see some new faces with some stellar new environs. Many thanks to the people at Coralaxy and the JttM folks who make this possible.
4:15- The long, long, _long_ distant ancestor of your uncle who just will not pull over and ask for directions.
YES! Some aquarium stuff!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Also this is going to sound dumb, but if you guys need samples from Pond Water, I got it! And I also have fish tanks, and a lizard enclosure! I've had parasites in my 20 gallon Vortacilla, so if you guys need anything I'll send samples literally for free because microbiology is so cool!
Good to hear that soothing voice again. And, please continue to show the scientific names of these creatures.
James - I'm such a fan of you! You truly are a trooper! Loads of love from your neighbour to your North ❤️🤗 and Hank! Lovely voice work - as lovely as the Schubert concert I went to this Sunday! This journey to the Microcosmos is as lovely as the Winter's travel I just went through 😙❤️🤗
Please make a deep dive video into coral! It would be fascinating!
7:23 I'll bet this worm is some sort of ribbon worm (Nemertea). I wonder if the "Cylinder-like" structures are gonads...
Thanks to all of you who collaborate to bring us these wonderful and informative videos! And thank you Hank for your wonderful narration and your wonderful voice 😊🙏🙏
This kind of content makes me wonder what Pasteur thought when he first witnessed the micro world. Fascinating
Another fascinating video! I love this channel. The narration combined with the calming music makes all of the videos very soothing. Excellent work James, Hank and team! 😊👏❤
Hey, love your videos! But did you change your mic or something? I kinda liked the other more.. it made your voice "warmer" and "fuller". The low end on the other one was deeper, like a warm hug ☺️
YAY for James! What an exciting episode.
Gosh how relaxing! I'm sitting here at work doing various projects in an entire other language entirely and this video is like science background music. His voice just brings calm to this nerd heart of mine.
Very informative. Thank you I had no idea about coral farming was so interesting.
5:35 Those algae are forming a Sierpinski triangle!
Very interesting to see that potential flatworm! I believe I may have seen those rod-like structures inside of it many years ago, except in my case it was a single one, and it was out on its own. At the time I just thought it was a small dead flatworm on my slide and really dismissed it. Most of what I had on that slide was actually an incredible amount of Catenulid flatworms, so maybe that's a decent guess? The thing is that I believe that they're freshwater worms, while those coral aquariums probably have too high salinity for these worms to survive. In any case, if you're interested I might be able to find some old (low quality) pictures of it.
It seems pretty clear that it is an interstitial mollusc of the genus Rhodope ;)
This footage is so good, you should make an educational show episode that is like the ones on National Geographic. The scenes and narration and sound effects.
Gorgeous - and who knew farms could be THIS wild haha!
I recently got to start using a microscope that magnifies to 400x. I had never really looked in one before, but I brought sea water to look at and I'm 90% sure I saw two marine gastrotrichs in there. It looked very similar to the creature here. It's frustrating to look at all these strange creatures and shapes and I don't know what any of them are hehe. Where would one start to look for identifying microscopic life?
I don't have an answer for you, but I think the people of the Microcosmos discord would have some recommendations!
The structures at 7:45 reminded me sponge spiculas... Could it be a sponge larvae?
Why waste your money on safari parks when all you need is a microscpe
Certainly far less expensive and it is rewarding.
I love looking at the water in my reef tank. It's abundantly alive. Edited for clarity.
What a cool idea for samples, James @JamsGerms ! I recently started watching reef aquarium videos and thought this was really neat to see the microcosm-level life side of things. Thank you!
PS - I watch a lot from Danny's Aquariums; I think you are all in The Netherlands?
And here I am looking at my reef tank with my bare eyes like a chump!
I finally got some time to look at my tank under a scope a little bit ago. It was great. Totally recommend it if your into microscopy, and identifying the "other organisms" in your tank. Red cyano is great to watch. It's like tangled red spaghetti constantly in motion. Very mesmerizing, even if I'd rather it not be in my tank. Lol
Foraminiferans are so amazing.. these are mostly benthic species?
I had no clue there are micoscopic crustaceans. That's super cool.
Oooooh they are legion :D
When you zoomed into that crustacean inside the flatworm, I lowkey freaked out a bit because I thought it looked kind of like a skull😶
This was good one! Very interesting!
These are the best bedtime stories.
Thanks for the awesome content!
Don’t forget that I love you !
Pinapple sponge... I wonder if that inspired Spongebob's house being a pineapple!
Knowing that Spongebob's creator was a Marine biologist, it wouldn't surprise me
@@Infernoraptor Wow, I didn't know that. That makes this indeed an interesting possible fact!
@@el_teodoro yep! Hillenberg worked as a marine biologist and had a degree in the subject before becoming an animator.
This show never fails to amaze.
Pineapple sponge… reminds me of a certain cartoon dwelling for a certain cartoon sponge.
Would it be odd if I somehow want some mustard dipped shrimps after watching this video? Mmmm, crustaceans!
Timestamp 613, what is the Y shaped thing 4 o’clock from the Shell?
Good stuff. Thank you
This title sounds like a horror film and I love it
Love these videos. Very informative and relaxing. So glad I found this channel!
Wondering what that red stuff is in the "flat worm"
At 5:35, what's the two square platforms about 40x20 μm, with green needles-like embedded in them?
@RoGeorgeRoGeorge They look like diatoms to me
nice videos! I love this channel!
Was that the Sierpinski triForce coral/algae?
Wonderful episode!
Wonderful captures!
It would be really cool to get more exotic samples from around the world. Maybe Antarctica ice, sediment from deep ocean floor. Any weird stuff you wouldn't see in a puddle.
Beautiful images. Like paintings
Are these done in a sort of bowl that is able to hold this stuff yet still be seen through like a slide, or is it done with something more capable than a desk microscope? I think I've got atleast 400x with the extended monocular and just the 10x let alone 25x + zoom lens. I don't know about moving a slide under the 40x when it may be pressing on the slide cover. Would you guys ever show the prep and storage process for these sort of macro things? Maybe an episode with microbes,and then 3rd person of James actually setting up, and then viewing, and then resealing the microbes safely?
What camera are you using ? Or is it a sort of trade secret. Thanks for all the great videos.
James should ask Ohio Fish rEscue for samples from their system
What do you call an argument between two fish?
A coral!
A coral, CORAL
wow the carapace is so beautiful. I had no idea flatworms had a mutualistic relationship with dinoflagellates woawoah
Me neither! That is pretty cool 🦠
Also, I know this is unrelated to the video but your pfp is awesome and funny :)
Just another day at the coral ranch
This must have been like christmas for James. :D
Rhodope placozophagus (Heterobranchia) a new species of turbellarian-like Gastropoda that preys on Placozoans. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 270(4)
Great video again. Would journey to the microcomos consider a collab with microbehunter?
7:50, I too encountered this "possibly flatworm" but same as you folks i couldn't find any matching on internet about what is this
Would have loved to see that email. 🤣
In Germany, die Farm can also raise not-pet animals (Nutztierfarm -> Use-posessing animal farm ; German is even shorter!) and therefore become a Schweine(swine)/Rinder(cattle)/Schaf(obvious)/Hühner(chicken)farm.
Stolzmonat! 🇩🇪
I also loved the video about corals (Korallen) and microorganisms as I do almost always
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Is there a video of the micro cosmos of my sinuses? Because this is by far the most troublesome and mysterious micro world in my life
my moms reef tank is FULL of bristle worms
This looks like it should be a wonderful video.
😄👍
Is the narrator hank?
Those aren't aquariums. Those are coral corrals.
Love your videos!
Beautiful
Great content
Offering coral support.
most of the content on youtube about slime really misses the mark, but not microcosmos videos.
Normal customer: May I buy some of your beautiful coral?
James: May I buy your refuse?
The title makes me think "There's always money in the banana stand."
bro the unknown species is some type of nematode. Which means its actually a round worm
Are the black dots in front eyes?
"pineapple sponge"
me: huh.. HUH
spongebob makes so much more sense now
Pineapple sponge??? LIKE SPONGEBOB?!
Bristle worms creep me out! Especially if this is the baby of what I think it is. It can grow UP
Awesome.
Much more of a macro space guy. But you guys beautifully give vision to the microverse, just as infinite complex as the heavens above
Awesome!
SpongeBob is a pineapple sponge confirmed
0:43
Simply lovely to see the usual suspects & some new faces (even if they don’t have faces!)
wow
I think I got chlamydodon before from trying the wrong hole with my babys moma.....
I'd like to see a shit smear under the scope :D no shit... Errr Maybe just a bit