Tiny Spawn of microscopic creatures

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So I’ve had cyano and Dino’s and looked at them under microscope but this one was new to me. This morning before my lights came on I saw something has bloomed!

the whole tank looks like it’s snowing. They looked like tiny scales/circles.. Upon closer inspection they were twirling. I thought oh no, not Dino’s again.. under microscope they look much different. Maybe even eating Dino’s? What do y’all think this is? Wow! In a bowl I observed it spin like crazy then stop and turn into a dot.. then spin more and flatten out. Very interesting but hope it isn’t gonna be an issue.

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kinda looks like a amoeba of some sort, but the organism seems defined with a actual border. If this is a larval stage of some sort I've never came across this before. This has me stumped.
 
Ok flattened out he looked much different.. Here is another one where I didn’t let him get squashed. :)
 

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They for sure are eating dinos.. Interesting!
 

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ooooh. that's some sort of coral, or jellyfish, or anemone larva. the "dinos" are the photosynthetic symbiont.
 
Yikes! I hope it was a coral I like :) if those are from gsp spawning I am in big trouble!
 

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