Is this diatoms or something else?

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I bought a cheap microscope to figure out this stuff…looks like diatoms in the tank, I’m not sure

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It’s 1200x but after some trial and error I got this pic…not looking like diatoms
Hard to tell, but diatoms are usually geometrically shaped; they often look like crystals/glass shards under a scope, as they use silica to build their cell walls. What magnification is this?
 

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large cell amphidinium
 

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