New webcam on the refugium

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Ashlar

This webcam is one of those handheld microscopes, mounted and pointing at the sand / water interface in a corner of our refugium.

If you watch for any period of time, you'll see amphipods, isopods, copepods, bristle worms, spaghetti worms, dorvilleid worms, flat worms, maybe even an ostracode or two.

http://rowelab.com/fish/camera/fugecam.php
 
@pjracer wrote:
That is cool. Do you have a thread how you set that up said:
Nah, but it's pretty straightforward. I picked up one of these- http://www.amazon.com/Celestron-44302-Handheld-Digital-Microscope/dp/B001UQ6E4E

I duct taped it to a spot on the refugium, and plugged it into a PC that I have near the tank. On that PC, I'm running webcam software. I opened a port in my firewall, and dropped the image onto a webpage on my hosted server.
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Dave, pick up any IP webcam and it should be a snap. I'm hearing good things about https://www.dropcam.com/ (pretty much plug and play)
 
Looks nice.. I'll put it on my list. I'd need some help with the web stuff... ultimately I'd like a website that I can pull up to show my controller info and then the webcam. Do you know if the apex webserver and pages can be modified to do that? :)
 
I see people from time to time with cameras set up on their tanks and I think it's so neat.
I think I'm gonna have to put a webcam on "the list".
I'm not high tech inclined, but this certainly needs to happen.
Thanks for sharing.
 
I got a webcam on mine that does 270 degree viewing. I can watch the fish move move it to see whats going on in the house. Also has night vision on it and has built in wifi. Need one for the other side of the tank and need to find out how to front mount one :)
 
Dr. Ron has helped me ID quite a few interesting critters.

The dorvilleid worms
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rissoid snails
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ostracodes
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even a rotifer
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The ostracodes are the sand skaters. He ID'd those for me a few years ago. Nice to see some living ones. Mine died while I awaited his response. Could I add your picture to my Pests presentation and give you Microscopic credit? [smilie=wink.gif]
 
Sure.. I have a couple of videos of them as well..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6UwttXUHCQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euZrZv6_EeE
 
That second video is excellent. Nice and crisp. What was the tiny snail it encountered?
 
That was a newly hatched dove snail- euplica scripta (IPSF calls them 'strombus grazers', but they're not in the strombus genus).
 
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