I see the protists moving around but rarely see any direct contact between them. My guess is that they are absorbing nutrition from proteins floating freely in the water or they are being fed by invisible nutrients--perhaps absorbed directly from the water. In that way they act like plants.
https://youtu.be/8pKlr_3j6CA
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