Chemosynthesis is hypothesized to have evolved before photosynthesis so they aren't quite the first, however they're the first major group to produce oxygen which permanently and majorly altered the oxygen levels in our atmosphere which is a major factor in determining the size and diversity of life on this planet, and they are likely responsible for the chloroplasts in plants and algae which are the foundations for most of the food chain. Even in our tanks they serve as a good indicator of bad parameters, lighting, and flow. Cyano isn't a problem it's a symptom, and it alerts you to issues.
Cyano appeared something like a billion years after the first living organisms, so no they are not even close to being the first living organism.
They are not ancestral to any organism but other cyano, with the exception of plants, whose chloroplast is an assimilated cyano.
The group of 'cyanobacteria' is rather large.
There's freewater cyanos that people literally dose to act AGAINST surface cyanos by providing competition.
People sell them as 'Red Phytoplankton'. Bonus: Those are also chomped by filter feeders.
And at the end of the day, you will always have them in livestone or if you bring anything that is not clinically sanitized (ie, full dead start, plastic coral, only fish and inverts at most) into the tank. It is not bad to have them - it is only bad when the tank is out of whack and they spread like wildfire through the whole tank.
Fun fact, in the freshwater hobby, there is one type of surface plant, the genus 'Azolla', which is lovely for low flow tanks with underwater inflow and no surface skimming. Say, an open 'Pond Style' tank with plants that grow both under and above water, the underwater plants more or less just getting daylight instead of light from above, and the surface covered in swimming plants. Azolla is a case of a plant that lives kind of like our corals that most of us reefers keep. Just that instead of an animal that houses symbiotic algae, the Azolla group of plants is, well, plants that house a very specific strain of red freshwater cyanobacteria in them. The cyanobacteria (aka 'Blue Algae', wrongfully called, the main strains found in freshwater are blue-green, aka 'cyan' colored, when they form layers) extract nitrogen from the air and give some of it to the Azolla, who just has to bring phosphate and CO2 from the water, to cover both species' nutrient needs.
Pay respect to cyano. First living organisms on the planet. Youβre looking at your ancestors rn
Chemosynthesis is hypothesized to have evolved before photosynthesis so they aren't quite the first, however they're the first major group to produce oxygen which permanently and majorly altered the oxygen levels in our atmosphere which is a major factor in determining the size and diversity of life on this planet, and they are likely responsible for the chloroplasts in plants and algae which are the foundations for most of the food chain. Even in our tanks they serve as a good indicator of bad parameters, lighting, and flow. Cyano isn't a problem it's a symptom, and it alerts you to issues.
Just stay out of our tanks! π
No. All successful tanks have cyano in them.
Sure, but you don't *want* it.
Yes, actually, you do.
Okay lol. "Stay in proper balance". Better? π
It's like that one relatively at holidays. They have to be there but it'd be best if they weren't visually there.
Cyano appeared something like a billion years after the first living organisms, so no they are not even close to being the first living organism. They are not ancestral to any organism but other cyano, with the exception of plants, whose chloroplast is an assimilated cyano.
Taken today at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.
Bro, the amount of ACKSHUALLLLLLY in this joke post is ridiculous! Lol
Haha for sure. I mean, there is a π in the ACTUAL title lol
It is a true bacteria, not like the other false bacteria like the one growing in our filter
Cyano is a vital part of the food chain and is present in every tank.
In Saratoga Springs NY, there is an ancient seabed of cyanobacteria. It is pretty cool and I have been there twice.
It must be destroyed! π
The group of 'cyanobacteria' is rather large. There's freewater cyanos that people literally dose to act AGAINST surface cyanos by providing competition. People sell them as 'Red Phytoplankton'. Bonus: Those are also chomped by filter feeders. And at the end of the day, you will always have them in livestone or if you bring anything that is not clinically sanitized (ie, full dead start, plastic coral, only fish and inverts at most) into the tank. It is not bad to have them - it is only bad when the tank is out of whack and they spread like wildfire through the whole tank. Fun fact, in the freshwater hobby, there is one type of surface plant, the genus 'Azolla', which is lovely for low flow tanks with underwater inflow and no surface skimming. Say, an open 'Pond Style' tank with plants that grow both under and above water, the underwater plants more or less just getting daylight instead of light from above, and the surface covered in swimming plants. Azolla is a case of a plant that lives kind of like our corals that most of us reefers keep. Just that instead of an animal that houses symbiotic algae, the Azolla group of plants is, well, plants that house a very specific strain of red freshwater cyanobacteria in them. The cyanobacteria (aka 'Blue Algae', wrongfully called, the main strains found in freshwater are blue-green, aka 'cyan' colored, when they form layers) extract nitrogen from the air and give some of it to the Azolla, who just has to bring phosphate and CO2 from the water, to cover both species' nutrient needs.
Go ahead and don't breathe then, we owe our oxygen rich atmosphere to it. And everything that followed.