Tiny springy things in the water
Started by echeng, Apr 24 2012 10:28 PM
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Posted 24 April 2012 - 11:25 PM
Coiled cyanobacteria. Nice catch!
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 07:07 AM
This stuff is all over my photos from Lembeh! So cool to finally know what it is!
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 08:48 AM
Finally! I had a bunch of those in images I took a while back of some pygmy seahorses in the Philippines and wondered what they were.
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 08:54 AM
Hey guys, you should be posting those WTF images! With all the UW experience around here it's rare that someone doesn't know the answer.
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 09:17 AM
I have always put them down as diatom chains, rather than cyanobacteria.
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 10:35 AM
Good point. It might be diatoms or it could be both. I did a quick web search which brought up a few diatoms in helical colonies but the majority of coiled chain images were of cyanobacteria. We won't know for sure without putting some of this stuff under a microscope.
