My New Toy & Copepods

[Domboski]

Pictures taken with my new microscope I collected these copepods locally. If you look closely you'll see what appears to be black dots. They were swimming around too

 

[wschang812]

where did you collect them? i never been collecting before. any tips?

 

[jhale]

cool stuff, now you need a bigger microscope to see the black dots :lol:

 

[Bob 1000]

I know it wss hard to get these pics... I've tried with a usb microscope and man I gave up after I realized 5 hours had gone by.. I'll bring some pods by one day to get some piucs of them if you want..

 

[masterswimmer]

Dom, where do you find the time to do all this? Nice pix too

swimmer

 

[Domboski]

Bring 'em by Tobin. It didn't take me that long . This microscope can magnify by 1000X. The pics above were at the lowest setting (40X I think).

I don't know where I find the time I need to find really small copepods to feed my filefish fry so it looks like my best option is to locally collect. I needed something to see copepods smaller than rotifers.

wschang: You can pretty much collect pods anywhere. You just need the right equipment. Search Local collecting on the board and you will find lot's of info :wink1:

 

[Pedro Nuno Ferreira]

Pictures taken with my new microscope I collected these copepods locally. If you look closely you'll see what appears to be black dots. They were swimming around too

Hi Domboski

are these pods related to the micro invertebrates that live on zostera marina? Some more about it here

Zostera beds are important for sediment deposition, substrate stabilization, as substrate for epiphytic algae and micro-invertebrates

Cheers
Pedro Nuno;-)

 

[Domboski]

Hi Domboski

are these pods related to the micro invertebrates that live on zostera marina? Some more about it here



Cheers
Pedro Nuno;-)

These are calanoid copepods. There was an amazing amount of them floating in the water current There are no Zostera where I collected other than what drifted to shore. I plan on collecting a lot of plankton though soon including what I can find in Zostera

 

[Pedro Nuno Ferreira]

These are calanoid copepods. There was an amazing amount of them floating in the water current There are no Zostera where I collected other than what drifted to shore. I plan on collecting a lot of plankton though soon including what I can find in Zostera

Hi Domboski

Calanoid copepods you say, floating in the current...I think I collect them also over here with my plankton net along with other quite interesting life forms, have a look...

These are some of the plankton critters I collect with my Aquatic Eco 60 micron plankton net

This one here is my favorite as it reminds me of the ancient and extinct Trilobites

The other "Trilobite" but transparent, a molt of the above but zoomed 100 times.

plankton molt fragments zoomed 100 times

Harpaticoid

Fire worm

molts

molts and a nauplius larvae possibly of a copepod

sponge calcareous spicule

Harpaticoid molt

Ostracode larvae

this one I call it "amonite" it is a benthic foraminiferan

Molts

Possibly dinoflagelate and a sponge spicule

Molt

Fire worm and Harpaticoid

Calanoid ?

Molts

And two videos

http://www.reefforum.net/photopost/data/534/MOV01871.MPG
http://www.reefforum.net/photopost/data/534/MOV01872.MPG

Dr. Ronald L. Shimek was kind enough to identify them for me or as He said, the closest possible.

It's simply amazing the micro world, so full of life, I'm sure you will have great fun checking the ones you collect with your microscope.

Cheers
Pedro Nuno;-)

 

[Domboski]

Very cool Pedro! We'll have to share photo's over the summer

 

[Paul B]

Hey Dom, the bottles in my tank are filled with pods.
I had to call a pod collection agency to take them

 

[Domboski]

Hey Dom, the bottles in my tank are filled with pods.
I had to call a pod collection agency to take them

LOL. When are we going out on your boat to collect some pods on the north shore?

 

[JHOV2324]

WOW and to think all this time i thought plankton looked like this

 

[Bob 1000]

I see I'm not the only SpongeBob watcher..lmao..