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| Unidentified pale, round cells surrounded by Microcystis, a genus of bacteria that harness the same type of photosynthesis as plants |
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| Higher detail of the same cells as two pics above |
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| A small Microcystis colony surrounded by an O2 bubble from its photosynthesis |
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| Colony of Cyanobacteria (like Microcystis) or green algae (ancestors of land plants) |
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| Colony of the same organism as two photos above, plus some weird stuff attached |
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| Colony of the same organism as two photos above |
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| Colony of the same organism as two photos above, plus some large, round, pale cells |
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| Filamentous cyanobacterium (middle top) |
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| Unidentified green algae or cyanobacterium |
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| Unidentified green algae or cyanobacterium (colony squeezed in the upper part of the bubble) and Microcystis (round colony further down) |
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| My illustration of the first ten pics on this post. The illustration of the Microcystis cell in the lower left has a holdfast, which many microbes use to attach themselves to a surface. I made the assumption that that Microcystis cells I was seeing had holdfasts based on their colony shape. This was before I knew what the cells where (beyond some algae), and there are no sources online supporting my theory. However, based on the radial positioningand fixed distance of the Microcystis cells around the center of the colony, I still think they might have holdfasts |
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| Green algae or cyanobacteria (circular green cells), purple bacteria (maybe the famous Rhodopseudomonas palustris), and a mat of small cocci (round) bacteria |
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| Unidentified green algae or cyanobacteria (olive green) and those same pale cells |
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| Same green algae or cyanobacteria s two photos above |
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| This part has some weid bubbles |
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| A very cool looking colony of algae/cyanobacteria, with lost of weird hairs. It is just big enough to see with the naked eye |
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| Something that appears to be a microscopic whale skeleton |
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| Maybe some weird, tiny colony of cyanobacteria? |
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| Dead colony of Dinobryon or some other golden alga |
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| Dinobryon is a genus of non-parasitic, non-toxin forming golden algae. It gets energy from eating bacteria and photosynthesizing. Its habitat is freshwater |
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| Lots of dead colonies, along with some algae or algal debris |
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| Illustration of the last 10 pics |
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