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.