Egg Fungus and Black Light
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:21 pm
Okay, put your Egon Spengler glasses on for this one.
I checked on the Cory eggs (oh yeah, I've got some Corydoras eggs! Catch up on it in my fish blog if you want) when I got home from work, and found two had fungus. I carefully removed them with the turkey baster in my "tackle box". Fast-forward to when the regular florescent light timer goes off and the black light comes on. I'm checking out the GloFish and I look to see if the eggs will "glow" as well. They don't. Well, all of of them except one.
Could this be an egg that just started to grow fungi? I turned the regular light back on to check. I couldn't tell which egg it was anymore. I broke out the turkey baster, went back to black light, and carefully removed the only glowing egg.
I took it over to my desk lamp and magnifying glass. Under magnification it showed several bands or streaks of white growth that was not present on the remaining eggs. Using a tripod and the 4 second exposure setting, I attempted to photo the "glowing" egg. It's not a clear photo, yet try and notice the glowing spot on the rock in the middle of the flashing circle. In real life it seemed to glow like a child's glow n' the dark toy.
What do ya'll think?
I checked on the Cory eggs (oh yeah, I've got some Corydoras eggs! Catch up on it in my fish blog if you want) when I got home from work, and found two had fungus. I carefully removed them with the turkey baster in my "tackle box". Fast-forward to when the regular florescent light timer goes off and the black light comes on. I'm checking out the GloFish and I look to see if the eggs will "glow" as well. They don't. Well, all of of them except one.
Could this be an egg that just started to grow fungi? I turned the regular light back on to check. I couldn't tell which egg it was anymore. I broke out the turkey baster, went back to black light, and carefully removed the only glowing egg.
I took it over to my desk lamp and magnifying glass. Under magnification it showed several bands or streaks of white growth that was not present on the remaining eggs. Using a tripod and the 4 second exposure setting, I attempted to photo the "glowing" egg. It's not a clear photo, yet try and notice the glowing spot on the rock in the middle of the flashing circle. In real life it seemed to glow like a child's glow n' the dark toy.
What do ya'll think?