Difflugia Corcha

This is a Difflugia Corcha, as you can see it has little spike like things that help it move upward.

Week 5

This is the final week I observed my micro aquarium. The population seemed to have died out, or rather there were fewer organisms in my aquarium. The bladder pod plant seemed to be dying also. There were not as many diatoms and rotifers that I could see.
I did see a lot of nematodes floating around this week. Along with a organisms called difflugia corcha. It was a brown circular organisms with spike like things on the end that help it move upward. I will post a picture of it soon. Overall, this last week everything seemed to die out.

Works Cited Page

Patterson DJ, 1998 Free Living freshwater Protozoa. John Willey and Sons 223. Oxytricha figure 263 1998.

Pennak W. Robert, 1989, Fresh water Invertebrates of the United States, Protozoa to Mollusca. John Willey and Sons 628. Roitfer figure 11,1989

Pennak W. Robert, 1989 Fresh water Invertebrates of the United States. John Willey and Sons 206. Collotheca figure B.

Pennak W. Robert, 1989, Fresh water Invertebrates of the United States. John Willey and Sons 25. Vorticella figure D.

Leidy, Joseph, 1879, Fresh water Rhizopods of North America. Washington Printing office. Plate XVII figure 1.

Vorticella

This is a vorticella attached to the bladder pod plant.

Week 4

There was a change in organisms-meaning that there was less organisms than there were last week. Either they have died off or they just was not visible this time. There were knew things that I did observe this week and I now have pictures and videos posted.
Actispherium was attached to the moss plant, with hairy like strings coming out from it. A green algea was also sticking out from the moss plant. A vorticella was attached to the bladder pod plant and it was constantly bouncing around. Also a rotifer called Collotheca, on the bladder pod plant had a open end with hair like projecting out of it (in the video it you can see it moving a little, then Dr. Mcfarland tapped his finger on it and the collotheca got scared and went back in. Then you can see it coming back out).

Video of Collotheca

This is a video of a rotifer called Collotheca

Rotifer-Collotheca

This is a rotifer called Collotheca and it was located on the bladder pod plant.

Rotifer

This rotifer was located on the bladder pod plant.

Week 3

In the week before, I fed my micro aquarium one pellet of food, and this seemed to be a significant change that I have seen so far. The aquarium has many more organisms floating around. The water does not to seem to be as clear as it has been in the previous weeks.

In the bladder pod plant there were rotifers attached to it. It looked like a clear like organism that opens at the top and projects hairy like strings coming out from it, only every so often. I gathered it did not like to be bothered. On the moss plant there was a oxythrichas crawling around the plant. I took a video of each organism and pictures that will be posted soon.

Week 2

From week 1 to week 2 not many things have changed. The water level has lowered in the micro aquarium, and there were many more bug like organisms in both of the plants. There were clear jelly like bugs floating around in the bladder pod plant.

The organisms were moving very rapidly. A long, clear caterpillar looking organism seemed to be feeding on the moss plant for most of the time I was observing the aquarium. Algae seemed more abundant around the moss plant and bladder pod. At the end of observing the aquarium I put on pebble of food for the plants.

Week 1

The first step I did to set up my micro aquarium is fill a glass dish with a water source. I chose my water from Spring Creek in Deans woods-section 6-. It is located in Knoxville county with partial shade exposure. Second step was to add a little part of a moss plant to the water, and then another little part of a bladder pod plant. I then started to do my first observation on my micro aquarium.

My first observations were not a lot of movement going on. I could distinctly see the moss leaves clearly. Not much was going on with moss plant just a few fungi appearances, and that is about it.
The bladder pod plant had a little going on. There were bug like things crawling around on the the bladder part of the plant. Other than that there was not much happening in either plant.