What does your sandbed look like?????

[Anonymous]

Here's mine!

 

[investigator1]

A section of my deep sand bed for the 7 gallon nano. This sand is all fine arag live bagged sand. I have tons o microfauna. If you look you can see small worms doing thier job. They are reproducing exponentially.

 

[Anonymous]

here's a nice macro shot 8)

 

[Anonymous]

here's a nice macro shot 8)

Hey that looks like Dr. Reef's tonsil curds!

 

[Anonymous]

Tom,
Nice pic...that's from the Miracle Mud/southdown analysis yeah? I have a sweet picture of a burrowing amphipod in situ at about that magnification.

Investigator,
Looks cool. I'd kind of like to see more pics like that, just to compare colors and depth of people's beds. Call me crazy. It looks like you have purple in there, or is that just a camera trick?

I have tons o microfauna. If you look you can see small worms doing thier job. They are reproducing exponentially.

Ever accidentally blow water at a section of your sandbed to make a sort of crater? The tubes the worms make stay intact and stick out, and you can count each one. Probably something like 20 per sq. inch of substrate for the larger ones...it's an amazing density.

 

[investigator1]

I actually have coraline algae growing along the sandbed on the inside of the glass. To my knowledge I haven't seen this before.

 

[Anonymous]

I've seen pictures of it before on an article on sandbeds, can't remember where but the entire sandbed was purple...very cool looking!

 

[Anonymous]

Here's one of my 75gal.

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Mickav8r what kind of camera was that shot with?

 

[Anonymous]

Ranger,
I don't know what camera Tom took those pics with. However, Ive taken similar pics with a Nikon coolpix (cheapo camera as far as digicams go) connected to a dissecting microscope. The magnification looks about 40X or so, not difficult to get with an inexpensive scope.

 

[Anonymous]

How did you connect the camera to a microscope? Is the thread the same? Which coolpix do you have? I am looking at th esony dsc717 but not sure if I want to spring fo rthat much if something less costly can do what I want.