Is this diatoms or something else?

[Thunder_reef]

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

 

[Steve and his Animals]

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?

 

[Thunder_reef]

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?

 

[Thunder_reef]

Does this help…pretty sure they Dino’s …anyone which type

 

[taricha]

large cell amphidinium

 

[Thunder_reef]

Thank you …that confirms what others have told me