It is Hard to Believe All The Microorganisms Living in Your Aquarium: 3 Samples Under The Microscope
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Terrifying or Beautiful? - 3 Aquarium Water Samples Under the Microscope. Plankton, Algae & Daphnia.
What lives in our freshwater aquariums? Amazing microorganisms can be found in a single drop of water, and thanks to the help of viewers like you, patreon backers and science, we will get a sneak peak into the often mysterious, freshwater Aquarium's nano scale ecosystem and food web.
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Microscope scenes start around 5:30 mark
Where did you buy the microscope?
how do you look at them under the microscope
Alex, could you please make a series of different microscope vids? I'm interested in a more in depth look at different water levels, and under gravel/under substrate look, plus possibly a look at what may be living ON the plants and animals. This would be so 😎
Yes, that's my plan :) im glad you like the idea
I'm so glad I subscribed to you! Btw...I'm local to you in Bremerton. I could send you a few samples for comparison if you'd be interested at any point. Just a thought - no pressure
@@Fishtory very intresting your video was the main reson i got a microscope and are you planning on doing any more videos like this or have you already done them /it
I love looking at animal life in pond or aquarium water! Thank you for sharing your microscope with us!
Protip for newbies: for a good cross section, take some filter mulm for the slide. Especially in a mature tank from many sources. Wait til you see a stentor flit in to focus and unfurl!😮
Alexander, I can't tell you how much I admire your aquariums! I am sure this is my favorite video of yours, and yes I want more microscope adventures and more looks into your tanks and your gorgeously healthy brightly colored fish and plants. I am coming back into the hobby after 15 years of not touching a tank, and I can't be more surprised at how much the hobby has changed. I am so glad to have found you and your amazing channel and you inspire me in my new tank that I am trying to build now. I might not be able to do every single thing in this way, but I will try to do as much as I can! You are my goal-setter. Thank you!
Awesome... I was about to shop for someone to do a collab on this very subject. Now I can go back to slacking off.
Hahah or call me
very interesting, now i want to get a microscope lol
This was cool. Interested to see what the cyanobacteria looks like under the scope.
It's funny that every time I look up a question, I find your videos
If you search your inner fish nerd...it leads here, a lot lol. Glad to hear it. Cheers and thanks for coming by!
"Chlorophyll? more like "bore-o-phyll!'" LMAO 🤣 Billy Madison. YES!
Cool video. It would be interesting to look at micro-fauna from bottom, middle, and top of the aquarium.
Yes, sadly i need a better scope for middle and top water, it's pretty small organisms
That was a fabulous video. You know your stuff and are very good at explaining and identifying what is going on. Thank you very much.
Thanks for watching!
You are something my man. Any time I'm curious about something related to the aquarium hobby you've gotta video on it. I genuinely can not thank you enough for all you've done for me and my fishies. I'm looking into getting a microscope for Christmas. Are there any you'd recommend? I'm at the very first stages of research so I have no idea
Thank you kindly. That means a lot to me. I appreciate you coming back over and over to see If I've covered it!
Awesome video! I love seeing what's in the water. I might finally get myself a microscope so I can see what's living in my tanks.
I highly recommend it
Pretty cool to see what critters lurk in the H2O. Cheers Alex, interesting stuff mate.
IM doing a project and needing to pick a topic concerning microorganisms. This is within my hobby but also what my class i think is searching for. PERFECT
Right on! Let me know if I can help at all
I find this Soo fascinating. It is nice to know that I am not the only person who does this. 😂
Yes more!!! Thank you for making this video. I am learning and you are so good at explaining what stuff is. I found a rotifer today in my 3 week old tank off a sample of biofilm on spider wood. So crazy.
Glad it was helpful! And awesome to find rotifers!
Nice video Alex! I wonder if that creature around 19th minute could be something like vorticella or stentor or something like that, which would be ciliates. I see those in samples of tank debris in our African clawed frog colony at work also. Super fun to watch.
Oh interesting! I wouldnt be surprised. The store i bought some of my plants from, also has clawed frogs
fascinating im going to do this when my tank matures
I highly recommend it!
More microscope videos would be cool
On it!
I love it regardless though, thank you for sharing
All I can say is we need more of this to see what we are putting our hands in. Lol
just ordered my first basic microscope...now to teach myself lol
Awesome!
That water flea looks like most of the panic buyers in stores lol
Hahahaa oh boy. Nice one
Good stuff again, another interesting angle on the hobby we share.
Thanks for sharing
Dude...this was sick!! 😶❤
Great to see these Mico organisms
What an awesome video! I want to find out what’s in my tanks!
Love this. Thanks Alex. Definitely interested in this stuff!! ,🙏✌️
Oh right on! I have a lot more film that I've been waiting to show to a microbiologist /marine biologist, so that I can say something useful, other than "oohh look at that thingy eating that other thingy, cool!". Hehe
That's cool. I think that would be super interesting to know more about the little critters. But I still find it cool just getting to see what we normally cannot! 🙂
Hey, very interesting. You should make more videos like this and try it more organized. For instance, you can try to target certain algae, like diatoms (which are very important in any aquatic habitat) or useful zooplankton like the rotifers (by the way, I think you found one at 19:18)
Yeah i totally agree... i just did one on plant cells - kind of haha...i got a bit caught up on some critters first.
Fascinating! What microscope are you using?
It's a compound refractory microscope from the 1970s and 1980s... one a high school was clearing out. I simply bought the adapter that replaces the eye piece with a lens.
Creepy and interesting at the same time. Now I wish I didn’t have a tall tank lol!
Hahahah don't worry
ive been looking at daphnia through a watch makers eye loup. can get a good view, interesting to see the substrate up close as well..not quite as good as micoscope but interesting still.,
100% i did the same thing first
Commenting before watching yay i saw them do and talk about this on journey to the micro cosmos and wanted to see more and hear more info on everything. I’m super excited to watch this! And i never use exclamation points lol
Well this one is a bit anticlimactic honestly... but theres probably half a dozen species in just 3 drops of tank water.
@@Fishtory had some stuff i had to do first :D i bet there could be different colonies everywhere substrate layers, depths, areas plants heater fish dens. I have a 20g tank I’m working on figuring out what i want in it and what i need. But my 3g algae/ plants only tank lol... the algae on the glass has random white circles where i think organisms are eating the algae its interesting.
And even on the fish themselves. I was considering if i bought some blue shrimp from LRB he sells bags of mulm water if that would survive the mail and if it would work to transplant his tank environment to my new one. Was also thinking I’d set it up like this. Mulm mixed in with substrate or substrates not sure what ill go with yet then plant a few things for some carpet and add just a little water. Idk curious on your thoughts. I’m new so the tank will start out slow some neocaradina for sure couple snails ricefish/guppys/endlers/or tetras maybe a long fin betta that wouldn’t be able to hunt anything down....... lol I’ve done it again i wrote you too much. My apologies Alex you don’t gotta respond. Ive been watching a select amount of fish channels and watching videos on tanks fish shrimp etc. for i think its been 9 months about now and all i have is some plants 2 of three types are still alive if not doubled/tripled in amount my Monte Carlo didn’t do well in a ball and couldn’t keep it in substrate so it turned into a algae ball and the dead plants parts killed most the rest but there’s a few random good pieces still alive in cups of water. Sorry for the structure of my writing never was my strong suit and didn’t need to write big papers. I’m Justin btw
Aw yeah i was hoping for high magnification. Still cool to see. Haven’t seen daphnia eating and going #2 no wonder they can keep water clear.
Oh you do have higher mags :D another video of highest mag would be sweet if the rest of the viewers want it
i think i found another expensive hobby along with my aquariums. i neeeeeed a microscope
19:00 i think is a rotifer very cool stuff
Ahhh, yes- good call!
My duck week and floating lettuce roots under the new Omax i just got on Prime day...oh man! Rotifer things, horseshoe crap looking little guys munching, nematodes, ton of protista kind of guys, others buzzing buy, stenos, trying to identify most the things I see, it's amazing! I want to try my fluval filter media next since I have to clean it soon!
Oh rad
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I'm curious where in the tanks you gathered the samples for the slides. Surface? Mid water column? Substrate? Where is it usually most likely to find interesting moving organisms in the tanks?
So with a pipette one squeeze from mid water one from the right back corner substrate
You can also see yeast in your water.
20:00 That could be algae.
But like how do they get in there? I've been thinking (I mean I didn't come across this video but accident) that stuff is probably in fish tanks but where do they come from?
On our clothes, on fish, in fish. On plants...floating on dust, spores in the air and any hardscape. Its rather surprising.
Hey Alex, can you recommend me a book about this topic? Mainly for identification purposes. 😊
You 😨 him off great content brother
Are you saying you dont like this subject? Sorry i can't understand the comment. But i thought id just post what im doing in my own freetime within the hobby
@@Fishtory you scared the micro organism off
It was pretty cool to see all the life in New to a seasoned aquarium. Life we can't see with the naked eye
Did you add these into the tanks or did they grow in by way of adding plants and botanicals you buy dry ? Cause really all the botanicals i have are bought dry but something is breaking them down besides my otos and snails right? ❤😅
Yeah most everything but the scuds and or daphnia were all just slowly hitchhiking on or in fish as eggs, or on plants/substrate and or wood. Pretty amazing
@@Fishtory good to know! I was worried I had no food web lol since all I use is dried botanicals wasn't sure if it was just the garras and amanos and ottos breaking them down
What about water chemistry and trace elements , how do you handle that ?
Hi there, which microscope are you using?
It's called "the microscope company" monoscopic 400x
Can you actually see those daphnia without the microscope on that slide? Also did you ever feed that tank daphnia or are they naturally there
They were in outdoor tanks...but just appeared over the summer via wind etc. And yes, daphnia are about 2 or 3 mm full grown id say
Where did you get your pink flamingo crypt? I have been trying to find some!
Aquarium zen Seattle
Check Han Aquatics. I bought a bunch of awesome crypts from him that just exploded in my tank. He has a lot of the rare stuff.
Alex have you got an email I can use to get in touch? Thanks bud. I've watched this microscope footage twice now... might be a series on it or something
Alexanderjwilliamson@gmail.com
It looks like the water flea has a baby water flea inside it
I want to know what type microscope that is...thanks.
The SKOPE SHOPPE hehe... some mass high school science class manufacturing company from the 1960s -1980s
Bibbits in real life
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