works cited

Grinis, Kenneth, and Bruce J Russell. Guide to Microlife. 1996. 204. Print.

Patterson, D.J. Free-Living Freshwater Protozoa: A Color Guide. Washington D.C.: Manson Publishing, 1995. Print.

Raven, Peter and Ray Everet and Susan Eichhorn. Biology of Plants 7^th edition. W.H. Freeman and Company Publishers. New York:2005.

"Stentor". Microbus. November 25, 2009 .

Ward and Whipple. Fresh- Water Biology. John Whiley and Sons, Inc. New York: 1918

Fourth Check Up

this week i saw a little bit of a change in my micro aquarium. they was not an increase in activity as there has been in the past weeks. the main organism i saw would have to be the stentor just gobbling up debris using its cilia as it flows by. the water was consiberably lower and i am not sure why. there was movement in the mud on the bottom but i could not tell what organism it, it might have been a midge.

Third Check Up

this week was my third time to check on the mircoaquarium i built. there was a noticeable change in the vegetation in my water. very small green plants seemed to be growing everywhere. it looked to me like filamentous algea. i mosty saw the same creatures as last week but there were a few new ones. i saw some difflugia, euplotes, rotifers, and either vorticella or epistylis, i could not be certain (Free-Living, Freshwater Protozoa: A Color Guide). the food pellet i placed in there last week was completely dissolved. the were alot more very small organisms swimming around everywhere. my main plants seemed to be growing as well. the ends were curled up like a fern does.

Second Check Up

this week i noticed some changes in my Microaquarium. the first observation was green plants branching out from the sediment in the bottom of my container. the food pellet i put in the water last week was sort of dissolving and had expanded. the pellet also had a good amount of organisms floating around it. the main creatures that i found were euglena, cyclops, paramecium, stentors, a midge, daphnia or clapoceran, and there was alot of movemnt in the bulbs connected to the plants (Guide to Microlife). i would say that i saw the most of the euglena but that might be because they move the least out of my organisms. i put images of some of the organisms in my other post. i had the water source number ten.

first check up

This week we observed our microaquariums. the very first thing i did was drop the food down in the water. i then observed my aquarium under the microscope. i saw more movement in the soil. my plants did not change much at all as far as i could tell. the main organisms i saw were a type of round worm that wiggled around a whole lot, the cyclops which also had a lot of movement, a snail looking organism that moved a little, and a spirogyro euglena that moved very little (Freshwater Biology). they all seemed to like being close to the bottom.

first day

today we started our microaquarium. we put our designated stickers on our containers first. then we filled it with the water we chose, mine was number ten, and the two plants assigned to us. lastly, we observed the plants and organisms underneath a microscope.