The Fourth and Final Week

There are many more unicellular green algae. They flutter around and flip over. There are many more cyanobacteria this week. The Philodina rotifers aren't showing much movement this week. There were a few flagellates, but they were not moving. The algae and cyanobacteria have definately multiplied by quiet a bit since the first week.

After Three Weeks

The cyanobacteria and algae have multiplied by alot. I found several gastrotrich metazoas. They just glide around. I also saw a Phialina ciliate. There are at least three times as many organisms in my microaquarium than there were last week.

After two weeks

There are many cyanobacteria now. There are also many rotifers swimming around. There were a couple more flagellates, but they were not moving around. There are also green algae.

After One Week

My microaquarium did not have a great variety of organisms in it after one week, so I enriched it with water from source number 13. That water came from a plastic bird bath 0.9 miles from Fountain City pond on Fountain Ln. This source has partial shade exposure. After adding water from source 13 there were many more organisms in my microaquarium. I also added one pellet of food to my microaquarium. These are some images I took when looking at my microaquarium after adding the water from source 13.












Peranema; Algae













Nematode; Philodina


Patterson, D.J. Free-Living Freshwater Protozoa: A Colour Guide. Manson Publishing ltd.
London 1996. Figure 70, Pg. 51. Peranema

Patterson, D.J. Free-Living Freshwater Protozoa: A Colour Guide. Manson Publishing ltd.
London 1996. Figure 195, Pg. 98. Amoeba

Pennak, Robert W. Fresh-Water Invertebrates of the United States: Protozoa to Mollusca.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York 1989. Figure 3, Pg. 172. Philodina

Pennak, Robert W. Fresh-Water Invertebrates of the United States: Protozoa to Mollusca.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York 1989. Figure 6E, Pg. 236. Achromadora

MicroAquarium setup

I used water from source number 2. This water is from the French Broad River, Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge. The water has partial shade from the spot it was taken. I filled my MicroAquarium with water and placed a couple pieces of plant material into it. The color code of stickers I placed on my MicroAquarium are red, light blue, and dark blue. I then looked at my MicroAquarium using a microscope. There were some microoraganisms that were round and moving in a jerking movement and spinning. Some of the microoraganims were moving very fast and jiggling.