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Originally Posted by Kazalla
Is also a mixed infection of different types of dinos in one reeftank possible? Under the microscope some dinos look different than the typical shape of an Ostreopsis (not egg-shaped more oval). Maybe a mix of different life stages (cysts or something like that).
Sincerely, Dennis
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I think it's possible! I have Ostreopsis- that drunken whirling is distinctive- and something smaller and different-behaving that I think is in genus Prorocentrum. Seeing the whitish circle isn't really diagnostic, that's a structure in the chloroplasts. Of course I wouldn't bet money on my ability to id even to family; for the most part I'm good if I can determine whether it's a dino or a diatom.
Not a microbiologist, blah blah disclaimer, could be space aliens.. 
Ivy
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