In my last observation of this project i saw that the cyanobacteria and diflugia spread out through the whole tank. I also observed three new organisms: Vorticella, Cylidium, and Rhynchomonas.



Bibliography


Vinyard, C. Williams, 1979 Diatoms of North America, Mad River Press Inc.

Pennak, W. Robert, 1989 Fresh-Water Invertebrates of the United States, John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Patterson, D.J., 2003 Free-Living Fresh Water Protozoa A Colour Guide, Manson Publishing

The organisms that were found in my Microaquarium are found below. The pictures with the same name are the organism from the first observed form of it and the last observed form. All of the pictures were taken after the food pellet was added into the water.

I observed the Amoeba floating around the water. (Patterson, 2003 fig. 195 pg. 98)

The Calothrix came about in my last observation. (Forest, 1954 fig, 680 pg. 427)

The Centropyxis was found in my first observation. (Patterson, 2003 fig. 184 pg. 95)

I observed the Chaetonotus racing through the water and what looked like it was eating. (Pennak, 1989 fig.7 pg. 165)

This insect was found during the first observation eating and was not seen in the last observation as if it died and decomposed. (

This was seen in the first observation motionless. (Patterson, 2003 fig.250 pg.120)

This green algae was found in my last observation that showed up out of no where. (Forest, 1954 fig.86 pg.89)

This jellyfish is in the middle of its stages to becoming mature. (Pennak, 1989 fig.5 pg.116)

This is the Amoeba but is now shelled and given a new name. The brown circle is the shell. (Leidy, 1879 fig. 23 pg.16)

This rotifera was found racing through the water. (Pennak, 1989 fig.14 pg.182)

The top picture is from my last findings and the bottom is from the first. The organisms grew tramendously as you may see. (Patterson, 2003 fig.260 pg.124)

This is a Cyanobacteria. (Forest, 1954 fig.568 pg.370)

There were a large mass of these in the water. (Patterson, 2003 fig.304 pg.139)

This latter like organism was found in the first observation. (Vinyard, 1979 fig.141 pg.110)

This is a green algae. (Forest, 1954 fig.200 pg.147)

This cyanobacteria spreads all through the water merging together to become bigger. (Forest, 1954 fig.599 pg.386)

On Friday October 24, 2014 "ONE" Beta Food Pellet was inserted into each microaquarium. On your blog posting for this week include date the food pellet was added along with the following information: "Atison's Betta Food" made by Ocean Nutrition, Aqua Pet Americas, 3528 West 500 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84104. Ingredients: Fish meal, wheat flower, soy meal, krill meal, minerals, vitamins and preservatives. Analysis: Crude Protein 36%; Crude fat 4.5%; Crude Fiber 3.5%; Moisture 8% and Ash 15%.(McFarland, 2014)

There was a food pellet added to the microaquarium. The organism count in the container has increased dramatically and there are new organisms to be added to the list.

I used  Meads Quarry, Island Home Ave, Knox Co. Tennessee Partial shade exposure Rock Quarry N35 57.162 W83 51.960 880 10/12/2014 to put into my microaquarium. I put water and dirt from this and added two plants. The plants added were:
Amblestegium varium (Hedwig) Lindberg. Moss.
Collection from: Natural spring. at Carters Mill Park, Carter Mill Road, Knox Co. TN. Partial shade exposure. N36 01.168 W83 42.832. 10/12/2014

Utricularia gibba L. Flowering plant. A
carnivorous plant. Original material from south shore of Spain Lake (N 35o55 12.35" W088o20' 47.00), Camp Bella Air Rd. East of Sparta Tn. in White Co. and grown in water tanks outside of greenhouse at Hesler
Biology Building. The University of Tennessee. Knox Co. Knoxville TN.
10/12/2014

 

After adding the plants, I observed the the organism in the water and there were nematodes swimming around and other organisms yet to be identified.