Day 2 [10/20/09]

Today I really focused on all the organisms that were dwelling in the sediment at the bottom of my MicroAquarium. I actually got to identify these creatures. I noticed 2 Daphnia. They are round and beetle like and continued to move rapidly throughout the dirt. I also noticed 2 Dugesia. They are worm-like and were very mobile. Both of these organisms are micro invertibrates. My favorite organism I encountered was a baby Cyclops on the leaves of Plant A. It looked like it had horns, but you could tell it was not fully developed. Last week I noticed a lot of things in the bladders of Plant B. After reviewing the posters in the lab area, I realized that in the previous week i had seen a volvox globator inside of one of the bladders. It looked like a very organized circle of dots. Also in these bladders, there were many paramecium and some Euglena gracilis. I still have yet to find anything noteworthy on Plant A.