That’s been presented a few times on here. I think the ocean does a lot of things that aren’t replicated in our home aquariums. If the dinos were indeed feeding on diatoms, then our slides wouldn’t show the diatoms outcompeting the dinos.
As per my experience. I had Dinos. Hundreds on a slide when I took samples. Dosed water glass, got my diatom explosion, started to see the dino numbers deplete on the slides and diatoms remain in larger number, until eventually there were no dinos and only diatoms on the slides.
If the Dinos were feeding on the diatoms, we wouldn’t see those results.
So while I know that paper is well established, I think based on my and tens of thousands of others who used diatoms to defeat Dino’s, our home aquariums have different results that the ocean as it relates to dino/diatom relationships.
