After a month, and after adding high powered actinic and metal halide lamps to our tank (plus a 12-LED blue "moonlight system), we finally got the desired algae bloom. The snails, hermit crabs, featherdusters and various anemones are thriving, and we have a good population of small buggy critters, also highly desired. The snails are laying eggs, the Aptasia are thriving (perhaps to our regret, later) and we've even got some broad leafed algae that looks very nice. The tank has cycled twice (nitrogen) and everything is staying in bounds - ammonia, nitrates, nitrites. Now for some patience...

I clipped the tank out of this image, annotated and color balanced it, you can see it here.

Me splashing around in the ocean at Sebastian Beach in Fort Lauderdale.

Since many of the blue green algae are using chlorophyll A and B I

can give them the same light wavelengths that I would give to a

plant. Here you can see my 20W LED pizza pan setup being used to try

and help the algae grow. Normally I would just put the algae outside

and not waste the electroncs, but it has been dark and stormy today.

Some species of algae have evolved to grow in small pockets of meltwater found on/in bodies of snow. Seen here as specks and paint-like blobs of goop are flourishing colonies of the common alpine alga, Chlamydomonas nivalis.

For the record I stuck my finger in it and used the goop to finger paint on the adjacent rocks.

Johnson Branch begins a long run through Middle Tennessee at this spring in the Rippavilla Plantation in Spring Hill, Tennessee

I have a new toy! I thought it was about time I upgraded from my point & shoot got a real DSLR camera. I'm having so much fun with it.

Green algae blue in the ocean

Algae from Ms Hsu's aquarium, SMIC Private School.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n2iydpw3rE&list=RDfteLdUAIFXY

murky green water from overload of algae did not stop them a bit

Backlight and snooted lighting on hairy algae shrimp

phycocaris simulans

Anilao - March 2016

This is the San Francisco Bay just off Menlo Park - looking north. You can just pick out the Port of Redwood City on the right about 1/4 from the top

Algae Lon water contained in a washing channel.

White River Falls, Central Oregon

monoprinting with a homemade gelatin plate. acrylics on card stock.

Hairlike algae growing on the frond of a Fucus (bladder wrack) specimen.

Algae(?) at 600x, iris adjustment and manual occlusion of parts of the lamp for contrast.

This is a run-off stream in the Black Sand geyser basin. Because of the different temperatures of the water, different algal, bacterial, and (in the hottest water) archaeal species live near the edge, vs. toward the middle of the stream.

Beaver Lake, Elk/Beaver Lake Regional Park, Saanich, Greater Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC

This algae was so dense that I thought it was moss at first glance. Either way I thought that it was growing in an interesting formation and made for a good composition.

Red, brown and green algae from coast of Pohang Beach, South Korea. Evidence of abundance of marine life.

20090726 張懸&Algae。城市。行腳 。華山

Laguna del Inca

A painted turtle soaking up the sun on a log in the La Crosse River Marsh at La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Lake Katherine

A photo of my backyard swimming pool after removing the winter cover. Full of algae and grime. Shot from a ladder with a 10.5 fisheye lens.

Nikon FM3A camera, 55mm Micro-Nikkor lens, Fuji Velvia 50 film.

Brown algae, whose scientific name is Phaeophyta, has 28 species in the waters off of Guam.

Roy Tsuda

Harvesting Algae in Srinagar. Was told that it is fed to cattle, but that it HAS to come out or will overwhelm the lake. I guess the polution is bad.

60X Water Immersion, DIC

a tiny red alga Polysiphonia denudata Florideae [Rhodophyta] grows epiphytically upon a larger marine brown alga Sargassum sp. Isogeneratae [Phaeophyta] with pericarp expelling carpospores

Sometimes the carotene makes it orange.