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Originally Posted by Kurt03
Scope a scraping of brown area, might just be diatoms, hopefully! Awesome news though!
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Not diatoms, unfortunately. I am, however, starting to see some diversity I haven't seen in any previous slides. In the first sample, I found some kind of worm with phytoplankton in its gut. Found more Amphidinium on the rock among the motionless, yellow discs. I also found a diatom or two, which I haven't seen before this. I also noticed the brown stuff on the rock has faded to a more light tan color where it was dark brown before I left. Before, I had to scrape with my fingernail to get anything off the rock, and now everything comes right off as if it were detritus.
I'm also seeing some kind of fast moving, yellow pill-shaped things which appear to be able to bend and change shape. They're roughly the same size as our mystery yellow discs. The Amphidinium near the center of the frame in video 2 can be used as a size reference.
