Microscopy ID Help!

Discussion in 'Diseases' started by Servillius, Mar 21, 2014.

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  1. Servillius

    Servillius Montipora Digitata

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    What does this look like to you folks?
     
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    An Acropora eating flatworm egg or a single cell of a macro algae.

    What do you thing it is? It does not look like protozoan/parasite. What leads you do believe it's a pathogen?
     
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  3. Servillius

    Servillius Montipora Digitata

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    I think it's a Dinoflagellate, but I don't see flagella. It also lacks some body definition. I pulled it out of my wife's tank as part of a small brown tendril however.

    Not really sure.
     
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