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Hello all, it always a powerful view for me to observe:

1)Teeming thick brownish soup of recycleing bacteria.

2) Hordes of some sort of protozoan nudgeing along in a feeding frenzy

just as many hyena would bunch and shove at a long dead carcass.

3) The 'husk' itself of the dead copepod nearly nawed clean to 'the bone'....err...clean to the carapace.

And as at any megafauna kill site...spectators milling about, yes these diatoms did glide toward then alight upon this meiofauna being recycled!

The protozoans are very complex...possibly 'hyper-mastigotes' of some type..the behavior of their long cillia...it's ruffeling and spiral wave propagations suggest this to my eye. charlie guevara NJ,US

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