I posted my blog from my iPhone last week only to notice that apparently it didn't work! so here it is:
This week I really got to identify and study the organisms in my MicroAuarium very closely. I studied plant A because I had previously not noticed much action going on with it. This week I noticed that the edges of the leaves were very frayed as if they had been eaten and I saw a large seed shrimp feeding off of these leaves. Moving towards plant B, I noticed a small cyclops moving rapidly around it's leaves.
I also saw many dead organisms around the edges of the leaves and on the edges of the MicroAquarium. Dead seed shrimps and daphnia lined the aquarium. Contining around plant B, I saw a difflugia corona (ADD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFO). Looking at it closer, I saw it had extended "fingers" that were grabbing small pieces of "food" as they flew by. One of the neatest things I noticed this week was the beginning of growth of a green algae around plant A. Together with Dr. McFarland, I tried to identify this algae but could not because it was not fully developed. I will continually check it's growth in the aquarium.
I also saw a diatom which i was told by Dr. McFarland that it's walls are made of cilica. Moving towards the sediment, I noticed that many tunnels had been formed throughout the dirt. Here is where I noticed a nematode. I also noticed an analid. Both of which were worm like organisms.
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