week 5

Once again, it seems that the snail activity is the only thing that shows any promise. Everything else seems to be dead or dying off. I did notice something new however and Dr. McFarland helped me to identify it as a paramecium bulsaria. There are still a few rotifers swimming around here and there, but other than that nothing else seems to be living. All specimens were identified throughout this project using Bio Cam Communications, Box 8110-12. Blaine, WA 98230 USA. Copyright 1998 by Gordon Preacher.

week 4

Sorry i missed last week's post, i checked in again on Tuesday, November the second and found that the cyclops crustacea and disappeared and also that the snail population had grown again in numbers. With the snails, i noticed that on one of them, there was a spiral pattern on its back and found this to be quite interesting. There is only one snail with this pattern on it's back that i have found so this could prove that maybe there is more than one species of water snail in the aquarium.

And then there was life.

So, it's been one week since the beginning of our project. When the aquarium was first established the population of the tank ranged from few to none. On October 22, 2010, I checked on the aquarium again and found that the population of the tank had grown exponentially. The organisms that I found to be in the tank on the day I inspected it were, several species of protozoa, 3 snails, several amoebas, 2 shelled amoebas, diatoms, euglenoids, and 4 crustacea (cyclops).

step 1.

We started our term project for Bio 111 today. It incorporates students obtaining water samples from different sources around the state. We built our aquariums and filled them with different plants also from around the state. The water source i used for my aquarium was sample number 10- water pool below spring. Lynnhurst Cemetery.