Microscopic pizza party?

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Just for fun I like to take samples from my aquarium and examine them under a microscope. Today's sample was a bit of brownish algae from a Cypastrea that is showing some areas of polyp loss. To my surprise, I found several triangular objects and a small circular creature with a long tail swimming between them. It almost looks like something eating slices of pizza!

This video shows them at 80x, 200x, and 800x magnification.

 
I want to say Licmophora diatom, the smaller moving one species of Dinoflagellate
 

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