Week One

My aquarium contains the water from site four a horse farm pond in Knox County. first obvious changes I noticed the water level difference. It had decreased about 2 cm. I also saw that there where several air bubbles caught up in the amblystegium varium and the rhynchostegium serrulatum. My first observation through the microscope I noticed alot of movment from the rotifers. Every glance I saw at least two of the rotifers, relatively the same size. Some where feeding on the amblystegium varium. Out of all the organisms they were the fastest. I found at least three cyclops. All very still with little movement. For about five minutes i watch an arm growth from a difflugia. In the beginning I recognized it a a growing flagella but then noticed the arm would latch on to other organisms then the body of the difflugia would follow. The difflugia started growing two arms. After a while the arms collided.     

Observation One

Kenneth McFarland introduced the Micro Aquarium term project this past Tuesday. The purpose of the project is to file a collection of observations to learn the progression of micro organisms in a diverse environment. The different water sources that were gathered by McFarland will allow us (students) to create our own unique habitat. From my first observation I noticed two single celled moving organisms. The size of them vary. The speed of the larger wormed like organism was faster then the smaller one. Both where attached to the Chlorophyll multiple celled organisms. The overall color of my aquarium under the microscope is a yellowish cream. I plan on making my continual observations on wednesdays in the late afternoon.