zozo
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Yesterday i found someting rather very interesting. Never seen it before, no idea where to look for references. No idea if it is an Alga or something in between a Chara sp. maybe or maybe a moss?? It realy beats me, no idea how long it grew and how fast it grows.. The tank is about 18 months old and it grew as a little wig rather well hidden in between some Bolbitis h. leaves.
Not realy attaching i think, rather brittle and easily breaks off, it didn't take me much effort to get it out. So hard to say if it attaches.. The color is more brownish then black. Under the microscope it has a clear leaf structure with a central vain and a leaf like cellstructure build around it. It branches at the leaftips in cross sections. At these cross sections it forms a rootlike structure again with main and hair roots.. At some root tips i found little ball shaped bodies. Also some single leaves. I suppose the ball shape outgrow maybe forms a leaf like structure later on and from there it branches on. Also found branches ending as a single leaf.
searched several algae databases with microscopic pictures but to no avail. Nowhere i can find any simmular looking growform..
This is about all i could find, at least at this particular spot.
See on a petri dish, square = 1 cm
In the top left corner from section D1 is such a cross section with a bunch of roots growing. The longer i look at it, i kinda like it It's an intriguing little grow form...
Who can help me solve this mystery..? What is it? Never seen it before in my life.. And absolutely no idea where it come from.
Not realy attaching i think, rather brittle and easily breaks off, it didn't take me much effort to get it out. So hard to say if it attaches.. The color is more brownish then black. Under the microscope it has a clear leaf structure with a central vain and a leaf like cellstructure build around it. It branches at the leaftips in cross sections. At these cross sections it forms a rootlike structure again with main and hair roots.. At some root tips i found little ball shaped bodies. Also some single leaves. I suppose the ball shape outgrow maybe forms a leaf like structure later on and from there it branches on. Also found branches ending as a single leaf.
searched several algae databases with microscopic pictures but to no avail. Nowhere i can find any simmular looking growform..
This is about all i could find, at least at this particular spot.
See on a petri dish, square = 1 cm
In the top left corner from section D1 is such a cross section with a bunch of roots growing. The longer i look at it, i kinda like it It's an intriguing little grow form...
Who can help me solve this mystery..? What is it? Never seen it before in my life.. And absolutely no idea where it come from.