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Originally Posted by DNA
Pants do you have numbers of the samples you have received on each species of dinoflagellates?
Ostreopsis sp.
Amphidinium sp.
Prorocentrum sp.
These seem to be the most common, but what is the ratio and how much falls into the "other" category?
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I have so few numbers its pretty meaningless (less than 10). I sent out more than 50 mailers when I was really actively looking into this but so few people followed up and mailed it back that I gave up.
I've yet to see a bloom of Prorocentrum in a reef tank. I find them in all reef tanks, and I've seen youtube videos of aquarium blooms that are very obviously Prorocentrum.
I've seen Gambierdiscus twice. This is closely related to Ostreopsis. Its a delicate shipper so its always arrived dead.
I also have repeatedly seen a tiny dinoflagellate that I can't ID morphologically. I need to do a phylogenetic analysis, but I haven't gotten good DNA yet. It would be easiest if I could get a sample from someone locally so it doesn't die off in shipping.