Leather coral 100x

Leather coral 40x

Nannochloropsis 100x

Caulerpa racemosa 40x

Chaetomorpha 40x

Caulerpa prolifera 40x

Caulerpa paspaloides

crushed zoanthid

Mushroom 40x

Mushroom 100x

Hair algae 100x

Pod 40x

Hey Adam.  Looking at that first pic... that is exactly what I've done to count the # of zooxanthellae per square inch on a coral.  If anyone wants to donate a couple frags from a couple different corals, maybe I'll do that experiment again and give you a number of zoox in your corals. 
May be good info to compare your corals to other club members???

Adam

Sean- sorry didn't see your post until now.  The smaller the better.  Like a 1/2 to 1 inch frag is best.  Soft corals are actually easier to count zooxanthellae on, but I don't usually do that.

ADAM- can I use your pics in an article, and copywrite them under UtahReefs.com?

Adam

Adam Blundell wrote: ADAM- can I use your pics in an article, and copywrite them under UtahReefs.com?

Yes

Sean- well, I wouldn't mind looking into comparing some sps corals.  A little more difficult, but doable.  Like I said you only need half inch frags so it doesn't really cost anything.  Time consuming to do the calculations.  Maybe I'll look into doing this again.

Adam

I believe this first pic is a baby brine shrimp, but not certain. (100x)

Pic 2 is a bristle worm. This was actually quite a tricky shot to get since the thing wouldn't stay in one spot on the slide. Magnified 40x i believe.

Here is an adult brine shrimp (40x)

Here is a close up of the tail (100x). This was actually really neat to look at. Small particles could be seen traveling along the dorsal side and returning toward the body on the ventral side.

This next pod is one I see quite a bit in my tank. It looks like a little red bug running all over the place (usually seen on the sand) (40x)

Here's a closeup of the "claws". I should mention that its pretty much impossible to get the whole field in focus under a microscope when dealing with larger 3D objects. (100x)

A closeup of the tail region (100x)

This pod is one of the most common in my tank. (40x)

Different one, but on its back (40x)

This one was also amazing to look at at 100x. Small particles (possibly microalgae) were seen directionally moving through the body in "vessels".

Another 100x shot

Mark, here is a pic of the sample you brought me. Magnified 400x.

Here is a closeup of the fiber-like structures. I think it may be next to impossible to identify what they are, but at least we know it isn't microalgae.

Anyone recognize this worm species?

here is the wood polyp we were looking at...

Those long cylindrical things in the first two pictures could be diatoms.  the woods polyp pics are very cool.

So what kind of microscope do you have and how are you taking the pictures?

Diatoms huh? I'll do some searches for some pics.

It is a cheap binocular compound microscope from Precision*World (ebay company)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=71407&item=3838088521&rd=1 - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=7 1407&item=3838088521&rd=1

To take a picture, I just put a camera up to one of the eye pieces and shoot. This is how we did it in all of my biology labs even if we had the expensive built-in cameras.