You might think that your aquarium has a few fish, some corals, and perhaps an assortment of invertebrates that you may or may not have intentionally introduced. We all有点儿知道我们的坦克中有很多微生物生命,但取决于您引入的活岩,植物或珊瑚的数量,水族馆中微生物的多样性和密度确实可能使您感到惊讶。
甚至科学家也对水族馆中微生物学的动态性质感到惊讶,描述了新物种虾虾来自奥地利水族馆。但更令人惊讶的是发现Ancoracysta twista从斯克里普斯海洋学研究所的“脑珊瑚”表面。
当分类学家意识到AncoracySta代表其自身的真核血统时,这一发现更加困惑,这意味着它与我们所知道的其他单一细胞生物没有密切相关!水产师,尤其是礁石谈论在我们的坦克中添加“豆荚”和浮游生物,好像注射这些养殖的小动物确实会影响水族馆的生物学,但最重要的生物是您看不到肉眼的生物。
我们最喜欢的YouTube频道之一,即微观的旅程,最近进行了深入研究,以研究典型水族馆水中可以发现的少量样本。尤其令人惊讶的是,即使是Capital-H的巨大水族馆,例如佐治亚水族馆的600万+加仑海洋旅行者展览也会发生波动它是microbiology over time.
You would think that you’d need an expensive and complicated microscope to see any of this micro and meiofauna but you would be very surpsrised at what you can see with a Mesoscope or even a cheap microscope with a USB video output so you can visualize on a screen instead of a tiny eyepiece. With all this newfound time on our hands, there’s never been a better time to ‘停下来scout for microbes’就在我们自己的水族馆中,对于今年在家上学的所有年轻人来说,这可能是一个很棒的科学课。