Final Observations

Surprisingly in my final observarion it was as if everything had died in my microaquarium. I saw no seed shrimp (as I had seen before). There was hardly even any algae as before. I am not sure what happened but i spent about an hour searching for some sort of moving organisms and came up empty.

11/5

Once again as I picked my microaquarium up I noticed water needed to be added, as usual. As I checked my microaquarium for some reason there were no new organisms. This time as I checked for signs of new organisms developing there seemed to be fewer than last time I checked a week ago. I only found one seed shrimp from the few I saw last week and the week before. Bacteria/algae is multiplying every week. I identified both unicellular and colonial green algae along the sides of the aquarium as well as on the plants themselves. Although my microaquarium seems vacant and lifeless with few organisms swimming around, the plant life continues to thrive. Both plants are green and healthy. Hopefully next week I will have something interesting developed to take pictures of finally.

10/29

I observed my microaquarium again today. It has been two weeks since it was created and everything is looking healthy. The plants are green and thriving. There are many protist organisms everywhere that I could barely see under 10x. Not sure what they are yet. All I know is that they are single-celled and on some I could see tiny hairs which is also known as pseudopodia. The ostracod, seed shrimp, I discovered last week is still alive and has grown. I also noticed more seed shrimp that had formed. They all had the characteristic bean-like shell. Organisms were still feeding off their surroundings and excreting waste. The food pellet that I placed in the microaquarium last week had been broken apart, but it was still in its same general area (not completely gone). Also a green algae has formed in some places. From the best I could tell and by using the "Pond Life Identification Kit" it was more Colonial than the other types.

Check-up 10/22

It has been 9 days since I created my microaquarium. Everything looks healthy and active. Water had evaporated so I added an amount of water necessary. There are just a few differences from when I last examined the microaquarium. There are several protists I could not identify yet. My hypothesis is cyclops are going to take form. I identified a Seed shrimp which is in the Ostrocod family. Seed Shrimp are called this because they look like seeds. They are encased within two opaque shells. They continuously filter through the water for organisms. Source: Rainis, Kenneth, and Bruce Russell. Guide to Microlife. Print.

MIcroaquarium-1

I have now created my MicroAquarium. I started off by applying water source #11. I then placed Plant A and Plant B. As I observed my MicroAquarium under the microscope I saw that Plant A was a light green. Plant B appeared to be a dark green color. There were several organisms feeding off both Plant A and Plant B. Most of the organisms were single-celled, but there were several that seemed to be multicellular.