eating diatoms may cause death ;)

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eating diatoms may cause death ;)

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that ciliate choked to death. it was still alive when I took this image and died shortly after.

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Hi. Beautiful photo.
Really do not think that the diatom caused their death
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thanks (:

this post and photo was a bit joke like (; but I have seen many times a ciliate or rotifer trying to eat a diatom that oversized them.
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Nice picture!

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Maybe the diatom has a defense mechanism. Did it get away? :)
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