finding a lot of these when ive been id'ing cyano under microscope, any idea what they are? should i be concerned

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As title suggests ive recently bought a microscope to id cyano bacteria in my tank, ive noticed these apparently 3 pointed star shapes, i thought maybe some kind of diatom but i stumbled on a thread from twilliard where he also found these and thought it might be a parasite of some kind but never added more

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ok thanks, i was looking through google images for id but without key words to narrow it down i couldnt find out what it was.
 

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I have them as well. Didn’t know what they were. But after some googling I think they do look like sponge sporacles. Not sure if that’s bad.
 

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