Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Jellyfish Vs. Copepod
Posted by Scott Collins at 10:46 AM 0 comments
Labels: Pico-Tank, Saltwater Aquarium, Scyphozoan Jellyfish, Weird Things
Monday, August 20, 2007
What does a Sea Urchin look like when he's eating?
Posted by Scott Collins at 7:30 PM 0 comments
Labels: Saltwater Aquarium, Sea Urchin
Another shot of the Jellyfish, this time in the gravel. You can see polyps underneath (or on top depending on how you view what is right-side-up on this jelly), ready to pick food out of the water that happens to float by.
Posted by Scott Collins at 5:04 AM 0 comments
Labels: Scyphozoan Jellyfish, Weird Things
Here's the best shot of a Bristle Worm to date, peeking out a hole at dinner time, hoping to find a scrap of food leftover. Despite a bad reputation and the fact that my wife hates them, they do a good job of cleaning the tank.
Posted by Scott Collins at 4:48 AM 0 comments
Labels: Bristle Worm, Pico-Tank, Weird Things
This is about the only shot you will ever see of the Clown Goby, he rarely strays from this spot amongst the Gorgonian.
Posted by Scott Collins at 4:44 AM 0 comments
Labels: Blueberry Gorgonian, Yellow Clown Goby
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Anyway, Oz2 seems happy hiding in plain sight in the Gorgonian, which supposedly they are wont to do.
Posted by Scott Collins at 10:01 AM 0 comments
Labels: Blueberry Gorgonian, Pico-Tank, Yellow Clown Goby
Posted by Scott Collins at 9:59 AM 0 comments
Labels: Saltwater Aquarium, Scooter Blenny
Friday, August 17, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Monday, August 06, 2007
Posted by Scott Collins at 6:51 PM 0 comments
Labels: Scyphozoan Jellyfish, Weird Things
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
This critter came from our pico-tank, I haven't the slightest clue what it is. It was large enough that I couldn't see it all at once, hence the photo-merge.
Posted by Scott Collins at 7:06 PM 0 comments
Labels: Weird Things
Sunday, July 22, 2007
New Digs. Manny, Moe and Jack were getting a little big for the 10 Gal. tank, so they've move up to a 20 Gal.
Posted by Nibdipper at 8:27 PM 0 comments
Labels: Cichlid
An Aquarium Darkly
Posted by Scott Collins at 10:09 AM 0 comments
Labels: Saltwater Aquarium, Tubastraea Faulkneri
Friday, July 20, 2007
Posted by Scott Collins at 9:15 AM 0 comments
Labels: Saltwater Aquarium, Sea Urchin
Posted by Scott Collins at 9:07 AM 0 comments
Labels: Saltwater Aquarium, Sea Urchin
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Ostracods
These were the critters that first prompted me to start this blog since we had no idea what they were. It's difficult to research something when you only have a photo unless you can post them on message boards, but at the time we didn't know of any so it took a lot of guess work to finally hit on the fact that these were freshwater Ostracods.
Posted by Scott Collins at 3:22 AM 0 comments
Labels: Ostracod, Weird Things
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Friday, June 08, 2007
Monday, June 04, 2007
I'm never stepping in the ocean again
Posted by Scott Collins at 3:56 PM 0 comments
Labels: Weird Things
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Hitchhikers galore
Posted by Scott Collins at 10:58 AM 0 comments
Labels: Weird Things
Thursday, May 31, 2007
A truly weird thing!
[More videos from Sparky477]
I shot this Scyphozoan Jellyfish through the microscope after sucking him up with an eye dropper. He actually is swimming around in a drop of salt water if that is any indication of how big he is. Unfortunately I only have one objective lens in the scope and I could have done with a little wider shot, but you can get the idea of how this guy swims by watching the video.
Posted by Scott Collins at 9:36 PM 0 comments
Labels: Scyphozoan Jellyfish, Weird Things
Monday, May 28, 2007
Scyphozoan Jellyfish
Posted by Scott Collins at 1:50 PM 0 comments
Labels: Scyphozoan Jellyfish, Weird Things
Sun Coral / Orange Cup Coral
Posted by Scott Collins at 9:31 AM 0 comments
Labels: Saltwater Aquarium
Posted by Scott Collins at 9:30 AM 0 comments
Labels: Saltwater Aquarium, Tubastraea Faulkneri
Posted by Scott Collins at 9:28 AM 0 comments
Labels: Saltwater Aquarium, Tubastraea Faulkneri
Posted by Scott Collins at 9:24 AM 0 comments
Labels: Saltwater Aquarium, Tubastraea Faulkneri
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
It's hard to get a really good photograph of the Recordea in our tank. It's just at the wrong angle to the acrylic making it slightly out of focus, but this is a pretty good photograph. For some reason Recordea looks like photographs taken with an electron microscope, but there was no special filter or lighting used, just electronic flash.
Posted by Scott Collins at 5:46 PM 1 comments
Labels: Saltwater Aquarium