Week 3: Obversation

On Friday, October 22, 2010, a"Atison's Betta Food" pellet 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% was placed in each Micro Aquarium (http://botany1112010.blogspot.com).

While looking through the 10x objective microscope, I saw 4 Cyclops gathered by the Fontinalis plant, a underwater moss.  The Cyclops were inactive at the time.  I then saw a Stylaria.  The Stylaria is a worm from the class of Oligochaeta.  The worm was transparent and I was able to see his eyespot and it long proboscis from his head.

The Annelid Worms

http://www.micrographia.com/specbiol/helmint/annelhom/olig0100.htm

Week 2: Observation

October 27, 2010, while looking through the 10x objective microscope, I saw a large organism with one large eye swimming very fast back and forth between the plants.  As it swam it ate smaller organisms.  This organism was identified as a Cyclops.  Cyclops (Cyclopidae) are small Crustaceans (4mm) and belong to the family of copepods.  Cyclops are a food source for insects and small fish.

Thompson, Gerald. Pond Life. Crustacea. 1984  p . 130-131.

Week 1: Set up

During the first day, my instructor gave me a Micro Aquarium and told to pick one water source. I picked the number 10 water source. It's called Water pool below spring, Lynnhust Cemetery. It's from off of Adair Drive. Knox Co. Knoxville TN. Partial shade exposure Spring Feed Pond N36 01. 357 W83 55. 731 and 958 ft. The sample was taken on 10/10/2010. (http://botany1112010.blogspot.com/). With a small dropper I took some water from the top and middle of my Micro Aquarium. I then put plant A, a Fontinalis on the left side of my Micro Aquarium and plant B, Uticularia on the right side.