Algae ID - Microscope video and images

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Looking for assistance identify this algae





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Do you have photos of the algae in your tank?
 
I should have mentioned I am looking for the species epithet which requires microscopic level images to identify.
I doubt you can get to species level with simple light microscopy. You are probably lucky if you get to genus level with that. 🤔

All we see on those recordings are a few chloroplasts (which nearly always look the same), and that your specific algae has visible segments (very common). We don't see any zoospores or zoosporangium, we have no size estimates, know nothing about the growth patterns, etc.

To be fair, I probably couldn't help you even with that sort of info, but without it, it's certainly impossible. 🙁
 

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