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Post by bluestorm on Jun 1, 2020 1:41:52 GMT
These things are extremely small so I am unable to give a description of what an individual looks like so I will describe the swarms. When these first appeared they would cluster around the tips of my aquatic grass. The individual blades of grass might be anywhere from 4-7 mm wide. I thought it was some sort of algae since the clusters appeared to be fuzzy balls so I would siphon vacuum them up. The clusters would also take the shape of long spiderwebs. It wasn't until one morning when the sunlight hit them that I realized that they were moving. I am going to guess that each cloud cluster was composed of 3,000? individuals. The best image that I could get was with a macro lens. I have quite a few different videos of these things moving this is a short 4 second videoshowingthecloudformation This 17 seconds shows them traversing "spiderwebs"
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Post by jshuey on Jun 1, 2020 13:14:20 GMT
There is a facebook group called amateur microscopy - the spend half their lives looking a weird stuff from aquaria. They will know what this is.
john
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Post by exoticimports on Jun 4, 2020 10:54:15 GMT
Looks like snail egg masses.
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