Help me identify these ciliates and flagellates

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Without much ado, here are 5 unicellular eukaryotes that were growing in my lichen suspensions. These emerged after almost 4 weeks. I took these videos at the beginning of the year, and only now found time to collate them. Could you help me identify these? BTW, even after 4 months, I have nematodes and rotifers thriving in these lichen suspension cultures. I am just wondering if one can make a lichen medium by just boiling it and using the filtrate.
See the videos for more details.
Ciliate-21501-1-LI . A cowrie shaped ciliate.
2. Ciliate-21501-2-LI: A Paramecium like ciliate. Some really great footage of it exploring a transparent mass of material.
3. Ciliate-21501-3-LI
4. Flagellate-21501-4-LI : A photosynthetic flagellate. Perhaps a euglenoid.
6. Flagellate-21501-5-LI : A flagellate that had undergone a population explosion in the lichen culture. Some experiments wiht illumination are also seen in the video.

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