HMA’s 115 gal. Reef Tank

[hma]

Originally Posted by JFK_Jr

That's amazing Heinz...

I really enjoyed that website... you don't have it posted on your signature. Amazing pictures!

Riffaquarium - HM-Photogalerie

yepp .... but this is the german side. I have also a web side in english.

Look at this Side

[Woodstock]

Beautiful photos!

[Craig Manoukian]

Originally Posted by hma

I am not able, only by visual view, to distinguish the single fish illnesses. A distinction of the various fish diseases in their early stages, to me at least, is not possible. At least not visually with your eyes, but certainly with a microscope. In very good professional books one finds most fish illnesses in detail described, most also show microscopic enlargements of the causes. A microscope can be very helpful, for me it belongs to the "basic equipment" of a Reefer. It must be no expensive device; a microscope with 100 x enlargement is perfect enough. Then with it the different algae can be also distinguished very well.

Here the results are to be seen in two videos. 100 x anlarged and 400 x enlarged !

Do you have videos with cells of other fish diseases and how do you collect the cells for examination?

The information here and the photos on your website are top rated stuff Heinz, thanks!

[hma]

Originally Posted by Craig Manoukian

Do you have videos with cells of other fish diseases and how do you collect the cells for examination?

The information here and the photos on your website are top rated stuff Heinz, thanks!

Yes I have other videos of single cells, however also from cell heap. Unfortunately, I do not find them at the moment, however, she looks and if I have found them I show them also with pleasure here.

You have asked like I have collected the cells. Now, very simply, I have caught the affected fish with a cloche and have done a deduction of the affected skin places with the back of a scalpel. I have given the deduction on a glass bearer and then have done the film. Here one sees the microscopes in my office.



To make clear as helpfully good microscopes can be here still some pictures of plankton as well as from the Bryopsis alga, once the normal view of the algae and once a hair of this alga under the microscope.



Phytoplancton



Zooplancton



Bryopsis algae



Bryopsis algae under the microscope

[Melanie]

What do you do for a living?

Thank you so much for sharing your slide photos!

[michael_cb_125]

I love reading your chronicle. You are my hero!!!!
Like Melaine Said, What do you do for a living?
~Michael

[Woodstock]

Nice office! Awesome photos! I would love to get a microscope! That would be tons of fun!

[hma]

Originally Posted by Melanie

What do you do for a living?

Thank you so much for sharing your slide photos!

Hummmhhh …. what do I do for a living? I would say, the normal life of a information scientist who gets up in the morning between 5-6 AM and goes mostly only at night between 1-2 AM in to his bed. So not the exciting. In the time between I am either in my office in Munich, or I work from my Home office .... or I am at many universities or leading companies in whole Europe .... really nothing the exciting. A life like many, many other also.

BTW most of the time I work in my office at home. This should interest other not really, however can know also quietly everybody.

[Melanie]

An information scientist? I'm not familiar with that job. But it sounds much more fascinating that you give yourself credit for.

[hma]

Originally Posted by Woodstock

Nice office! Awesome photos! I would love to get a microscope! That would be tons of fun!

Yepp .... really .... tons of fun Donie Marie. And, in addition, in a lot of cases it can be very helpful, for example with limit from fish illnesses or problems with the water .... or, or, or...

Indeed, so a microscope is not always cheap, but very helpful.

[hma]

Originally Posted by Melanie

An information scientist? I'm not familiar with that job. But it sounds much more fascinating that you give yourself credit for.

OK Melanie .... a little detailed. I am advise universities and big companies concerning their flow of information and internal expiries in the enterprise / university (faculties). Is it a little more understandable now? One also calls this activity Consultancy!

[cheeks69]

Originally Posted by hma

Now, however, I am not able, only by visual view, to distinguish the single fish illnesses. A distinction of the various fish diseases in their early stages, to me at least, is not possible. At least not visually with your eyes, but certainly with a microscope. In very good professional books one finds most fish illnesses in detail described, most also show microscopic enlargements of the causes.

Well when you see a fish with with spots all over the body and he's scratching on any surface he can find it's a good bet he's infected with Ich...


Amazing videos Heinz thanks for sharing ! How are you able to take photos from the microscope ?

[Melanie]

Originally Posted by hma

OK Melanie .... a little detailed. I am advise universities and big companies concerning their flow of information and internal expiries in the enterprise / university (faculties). Is it a little more understandable now? One also calls this activity Consultancy!

Ah yes, it's all clear now.

[hma]

Originally Posted by cheeks69

Well when you see a fish with with spots all over the body and he's scratching on any surface he can find it's a good bet he's infected with Ich...


Amazing videos Heinz thanks for sharing ! How are you able to take photos from the microscope ?

Robert there you are right unquestionably. Only, THEN it is mostly already to help too late. I mean the people somewhere in the fish one or two little spots believe to recognise and then immediately shout " ICH"!

BTW I use a camera adaptor as on the office picture #424 are to be seen. The camera is a digital with one can also do videos.

[Craig Manoukian]

What are the other diseases you have encountered, other than the one ich diagnosis you mentioned?