Since my last observation there has been little visible change in my microaquarium to the naked eye or through the microscope. There has been a slight increase in microorganisms, but that’s it. There are no dead organisms lining the tank or anything like that. The date last observed was Thursday October 23, 2014.
-On this day I found many organisms such as a nematode. The nematode seemed to be in constant, quick motion. The long, thin, tail like creature was transparent and appear all throughout the microaquarium.
-As I kept exploring I found three rotifers! The rotifers were transparent, slow moving microorganism and they also have a pointed tail found in the middle of the microaquarium near the foliage found inside the aquarium.
-The largest microorganism I saw was the seed shrimp. He was a bottom dwelling microorganism, with a brown coloration and two sets of antennas used to swim through the microaquarium.
-There were a few microorganisms that I was not able to identify. For example a small unicellular transparent organism which had tiny black vacuoles on its body. The organisms moved slowly with no pattern in all parts of the aquarium. I saw five total during. There was also a worm of some kind living in the dirt of my microaquarium, but he never breached the surface for me to identify him. Is there any way to bring the creatures out of the sediment in order to identify it?
Can’t wait until next time!
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Monday, October 20, 2014
October 20th: Just the Beginning
This post is about the set up and beginnings of my Micro Aquarium. I have a thin plastic casing which I will call my aquarium. This is what it looks like.
A little more information about my aquarium, the water is from Lynnhurst Cemetary off of Adair Drive, in Knoxville Tennessee. Partial shade exposure Spring Feed Pond N36 01.357 W83 55.731 958 ft and the sample was collected on 10/12/2014. Here is a picture of the location my sample came from.
From the collected sample I used a dropper to put soil in the bottom of my aquarium then collected water from the bottom, middle, and top of the sample. Once I collected my soil and water my Micro Aquarium was ready for some more organisms. So I added two types of organisms:
-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
Now all my organisms live happily together. Through first look under the microscope I only found one microorganism. "He" was almost a perfect circle, except had a small tail, multicellular organism moving in a circle over and over again, doing constant doughnuts. He was the only creature I found.
A little more information about my aquarium, the water is from Lynnhurst Cemetary off of Adair Drive, in Knoxville Tennessee. Partial shade exposure Spring Feed Pond N36 01.357 W83 55.731 958 ft and the sample was collected on 10/12/2014. Here is a picture of the location my sample came from.
-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
Now all my organisms live happily together. Through first look under the microscope I only found one microorganism. "He" was almost a perfect circle, except had a small tail, multicellular organism moving in a circle over and over again, doing constant doughnuts. He was the only creature I found.
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