90g Reef Tank - Other Photos

Many people seem to be fixated on the macro aspects of their tanks.  I however spend hours a week looking and scouting for the barely visible creatures that live and grow in my tank.  Here are some I found and photographed using my camera. 

	Name	Date Acquired	Notes
	Bryopsis	25 Mar '10	As I mentioned in another build log, I hate Bryopsis.  It just does not want to die, you can add whatever fish and slugs and snails to your tank - they will not touch it.  When I scrubbed my one live rock where I had some Bryopsis growth, I took some of the leaves and photographed them.
	Cheatomorpha	25 Mar '10	The good algae... I have lots of this growing in my sump.  It is used for nutrient export, pH and O2 production and as a safe harbour for cope-, iso- and amphipods (and miniature brittle stars, feather duster worms, star fishes etc)..
	Copepod	25 Mar '10	I am unsure exactly what species of copepod this is, but I do know they are breeding like crazy in my tank as you can see from the egg bundle she is carrying.  Awesome little creatures.  My Ocellaris and Purple Fire fish think it is Christmas.
	Porcelain crab	25 Mar '10	I found this tiny Porcelain crab in my basin after I emptied the waste water from the water change.  It must have fell out of the live rock I scrubbed in there.  Since they are filter feeders and not harmful, I placed him back in my sump.  You can see he is pushing water over his eyes as they need to stay wet.
	Porcelain crab	25 Mar '10	Full view of the crab.
	Copepods	25 Mar '10	More copepods on my glass feasting on diatoms and green algae.
	Copepod	25 Mar '10	A closer view
	Copepod	25 Mar '10	I think this is a tigger copepod.
	Micro scene	25 Mar '10	This tiny landscape is flush against my aquarium glass pane.  Click on the image to see a larger version.  You will be amazed to see all the life.  I can see various copepods, an isopod, algae, coralline algae, O2 bubble, red ciliates etc.
	Algae and crustaceans	25 Mar '10	See how many crustaceans you can find by clicking on it for a larger view.
	Brine shrimp eggs	27 Mar '10	I decided to give my fish a treat and hatch some brine shrimp eggs.  I used the standard inverted pop bottle trick with an air stone.  Here are the dehydrated eggs...
	Brine shrimp nauplii	29 Mar '10	Two days later and they have hatched into thousands of tiny crustaceans.