Phytoplankton culture critters ID help

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Can someone identify the phytoplankton I'm culturing and what these worms are. I bought a live phytoplankton bottle which contains different strains of phytoplankton but I haven't been taking care of them for the past months. I also don't know if these worms or these green globs are a type of phytos.

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the "worms" are ciliates. I think that type mostly eats bacteria, but there are some ciliates that can eat your phyto, and if so then you'll find your phyto culture quickly turns into a ciliate culture.
I can't tell what kind of green single cell algae those small dots are - what culture material did you start from?
 
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the "worms" are ciliates. I think that type mostly eats bacteria, but there are some ciliates that can eat your phyto, and if so then you'll find your phyto culture quickly turns into a ciliate culture.
I can't tell what kind of green single cell algae those small dots are - what culture material did you start from?
lol are you telling me I am now culturing zooplanktons. Does my reef benefit from dosing live zooplankton? I think there's nanno and tetraselmis in there. I still see some tetraselmis on my microscope but occasionally.
 
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