Microaquarium Observation 3

Since last viewing my microaquarium, a beta food pellet from "Atison's Bet Food" had been added to the microaquarium, as well as more water. The original source of the water was Spring Creek at Dean's Woods (http://botany1112011.blogspot.com/). The next thing that stood out a lot was that the Utricalaria gibba seems to have died, the mossy Amblestegium, doesn't look so great, but it is still green p://botany1112011.blogspot.com/). There were two cyclops there today. I first saw them on Oct. 20, 2011, there were two living that day, and one corpse. Today I noticed that the pair consists of a male and a female. The female distinguished by egg sacs (http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/pond/index.html). There is also an overwhelming number of diatom colonies, with rectangular shape concentrated more densely the closer you get to the soil (http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/pond/index.html). Today I also noticed flagellated protazoa, probably euglenoids in large numbers (http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/pond/index.html). There were filamentous spirogyra just like we saw in lab today that I had'nt seen before. The ciliates suctoria that I first saw on Oct. 20 had increased greatly in number and were concentrated on the plants. I also noticed bryozoans on the plants as well. missing from first sight last week was the midge. Nothing else that was recorded on the Oct. 20 viewing seemed to be missing. The ciliated protazoa coleps was still around but not in localized concentrations like last week. Another new find, which I saw only one of i indentified on a poster in the lab room I think it is the Sarcodinid diffugia. There are also clusters of colonial green algae that I'm not so sure what they are yet as I had a difficult time focusing on them.