Fifth Week

In the microaquarium this week, I found more organisms trapped inside bladders everywhere. Amoebas were swimming around and like last week the rhodifers were consuming the tank. Cyanobacteria floats around everywhere you look. There was a dead shrimp that rhodifers were feeding off of. I also found a juvenile cyclops, a difflugia, and a centropyxis.

Fourth Week

In the microaquarium this week, there was many cyanobacteria floating around everywhere. There was also many rhodifers swimming and feeding off of the plants and algae. I found bladders on plant B, where organisms were caught inside of them. A dead cyclops was also in the tank.

Third Week

There was more algae and paramecium in the tank this week. There was also a food pellet added for the animals to feed on. I found three interesting animals: a cylclops, a mature cyclops, and a difflugia. Here are the pictures I took of those animals.

Second Week

This week in the Microaquarium, I saw protozoa. There was plenty of algae and paramecium. There were many things moving around. Some were moving very fast and some very slow. A dead shrimp was in there and bacteria was all over it.

First Week

MicroAquarium: a glass tank, a stand holder, and lid. I placed three colored dots on the top left corner of the tank. One for my lab section, one for my lab table, and the other for my seat number. I filled 1/3 of the tank with mostly water and a little dirt at the botton from bowl 10 which is from the water pool below the spring at Lynhurst Cemetery off of Adair Drive, Knox County, Knoxville, TN. I then put two plants in the tank (plant a and b).

source: McFarland, Ken. "Botany 111 2010". http://botany1112010.blogspot.com/ 4 October, 2010. Web.