While were on the topic of cyano…Anyone have any good sites they use with good pictures for identifying alga or bacterium? Thanks in advance.
I would start here
http://delreefclub.org/home/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=46&Itemid=23
Its called LINKS AND IT TOOK A WHILE TO PUT THEM UP
Please look there 
lOl
If anyone has links they would like to add pm them to me
Lot’s of people find this site useful:
http://www.melevsreef.com/id/
Doesn’t include everything and wasn’t made by a scientist or a university, but has some useful pictures and basic info to get you started on identifying something you have no clue what it is.
Perhaps we should think of changing the name “Links” to something else. I don’t believe that IanH was a member of the site when that section was created. To most people it wouldn’t be common sense that “Links” would be the common sense place to look for the answer for algae identification. Especially when on most sites “links” seems to be links to other sites the author has created, family websites, or the author’s favorite websites which are often unrelated to the rest of the site.
Perhaps we could call it “library” or “helpful links” or something like along those lines, so it doesn’t just get ignored. Just a though.
Jon
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I would start here
http://delreefclub.org/home/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=46&Itemid=23
Its called LINKS AND IT TOOK A WHILE TO PUT THEM UP
Please look there
Caps Lock Not yelling, sorry
lOl
If anyone has links they would like to add pm them to me[/quote]
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I would start here
http://delreefclub.org/home/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=46&Itemid=23
Its called LINKS AND IT TOOK A WHILE TO PUT THEM UP
Please look there
lOl
If anyone has links they would like to add pm them to me[/quote][/quote]
Caps lock got stuck on Sorry not yelling
Thank ya much, I’ll check out those links.
Yea ‘Links’ has always been one of those sections of websites I avoid as they are usually pointless. But I’ll admit, I didn’t do much searching before asking.
Many people don’t when they first start off and that is why thousands of topics have been repeated on forums over and over. It’s all good though we all contributed to it.
Something like this though may be something good to ask in the forum if you can’t find a good link. It’s sometime hard to google, “3/4inch tall dark green stick like algae that sways in the current” and get good results. If you can’t describe it well and have no clue what it is, it makes it difficult to identify. Sharing pictures with reefers makes things a lot easier. Took any digital pics of you’re tank yet?
A few with my iPhone, but I need to get a good camera and get some quality pictures.
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A few with my iPhone, but I need to get a good camera and get some quality pictures.[/quote]
I have a nice Sony digital that I can probably sell you for a ridiculous amount of money lOl
Seriously though, let me look aorund the house, I think I still have this one somewhere collecting dust. it’s not the greatest but it does take nice pictures.
My iPhone’s got 2 megapixles and I’ve got a camera around here somewhere that does 4 but the LCD is broken so I usually end up taking a picture of the wrong thing…
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My iPhone’s got 2 megapixles and I’ve got a camera around here somewhere that does 4 but the LCD is broken so I usually end up taking a picture of the wrong thing…[/quote]
You do realize most of them come with this little window in the back - usually above and to the left of the LCD - it’s called a viewfinder. you look through it and can see EXACTLY what the camera is going to take a picture of.
lOl