Saturday, November 7, 2009





November 2, 2009 week 4
Today I looked at my micro aquarium through a dissecting microscope and got an interesting new look at my aquarium. It allowed me to look at my aquarium in a 3-D perspective and get a bit of a better look at some things, however it did have one flaw, the zoom seemed to be that of maybe a 2X. I saw that there was an odd growth in the area of the aquarium where the majority of the plant material is, it kind of formed a half pipe of a brown stringy plant material. Other than that, there was nothing of importance to report on. The moss however, seemed to be dying off for the most part while a few new growths are sprouting out. The carnivorous plant on the other hand is growing quit large, it had a branch of it extend to the other side of the aquarium. The pods also are branching out, meaning that they have "branches" growing outward from the pods. The food pellet was completely gone, there was no trae of it that I could find. There are less bacteria, excluding cyanobacteria which is showing up quit a bit, more diatoms and other alga, and there are less halteria but more rotifers. Panerian (flat worms) have shown up in a small corner in the upper-right hand corner where sediment has randomly appeared, several rotifers can be found there and in the opposite corner where growth from the carnivorous plant has extended. Above center: copepod, diatoms. Above left: several alga including a volvox (Algae of the Western Great Lakes Area-G.W. Prescott) and below is a rotifer.--> assuming the blog makes them appear correctly.

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