What Is The Best Above Ground Pool Vacuum for Algae
Above-ground pools have become quite popular these past few years. Those temporary pop-up pools are ideal for tenants who might not be allowed to create permanent…
Algae are interesting for a number of reasons
- They are primary producers at the root of many aquatic food chains, and an important component of biodiversity
- They are objects of great beauty in their own right, unfortunately usually overlooked
- They are very sensitive indicators of environmental conditions, and a study of their variety in a waterbody can reveal much about water quality.
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Planktonic Unicellular and Colonial algae
Phylum Chlorophyta Botryococcus Colonial Chlorophyte: planktonic, sometimes bloom-forming. Colony is very dense, making cells hard to see; contains yellow oil droplets which can be squeezed out…
The Genus Spirogyra
Phylum Chlorophyta; sub-phylum Chlorophyceae; Order Zygnematales; Family Zygnemataceae Spirogyra species are unbranched filamentous green algae. The cell wall is characteristically straight and parallel-sided (compare with Oedogonium,…
The Genus Microspora
Phylum Chlorophyta; sub-phylum Chlorophyceae; Order Ulotrichales; Family Microsporaceae Microspora species are unbranched filamentous green algae. There is a single dense net-like chloroplast, usually filling the cell,…
The Genus Mougeotia
Phylum Chlorophyta, sub-phylum Chlorophyceae, order Zygnematales, fam. Zygnemataceae. Mougeotia species are unbranched filamentous green algae. The cell wall is characteristically straight and parallel-sided (compare with Oedogonium, Microspora or Stigeoclonium, which…
The Genus Ulothrix
Phylum Chlorophyta; sub-phylum Chlorophyceae; Order Zygnematales; Family Zygnemataceae Ulothrix species are unbranched filamentous green algae. The cells are typically about as broad as they are long (or…
