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Originally Posted by Squidmotron
So bet it. Any knowledge is good knowledge. Any correlations at all might give us a tip.
We are also getting better at identifying dinos.
For instance, I know I probably don't have the Ostreopsis that a lot of you have, now, thanks to Pants' magnifications.
What I have looks almost identically like the Amphidinium slides, although it's possible it could be Procentrum I suppose. I'm not exactly an expert.
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Squidmotron, what did your colonies of Amphidinium look like?
Pants ID'd mine as Amphidinium, too but I had two suspect algaes and I never positively identified which was the culprit. One red/purple like the ostreopsis pics; one golden green fuzzy clumps. Massive coral mortality when the green one was in bloom, but I believe he said that species is epiphitic - it rests on other surfaces as a colony. It is a poor swimmer but migrates into the water column at night, which is why UV helped me, I think. I had wondered if the fact that I lost whole colonies in a matter of hours was due to them all settling on that coral that day. My specimen was isolated from a water column sample.
I"m in for a Benjamin to fund research, too. He's been a tremendous help.