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David Walker and Wim van Egmond. Pond Life Identification Kit. [Internet] 2000 [cited November 12, 2013]. Available from http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/pond/index.html

Week 5

The last viewing of the MicroAquarium was very interesting. It appeared that the Prokaryotes had essentially completely taken over. I witnessed many of them at the top of the Aquarium and a few in the middle. The bottom of the Aquarium looked like a desolate wasteland. I found four shells of dead Diatoms, a small living diatom, and a nematode that I'm pretty sure was dead. i suspect that the Euglenoids were still staying alive by using the Fontinalis sp. moss as a food source, because I assumed that most of the other food sources had been depleted and that was the only healthy looking plant left.

Week 4

This week I found it difficult to find anything at all in my MicroAquarium. However, I did see quite a few Euglenoids and Diatoms swimming about. I thought it was strange that the life forms in the Aquarium reverted to these simple, single-celled organisms. The nematode, which had previously been the most common organism to observe, was nowhere to be seen. I couldn't find a single one.
The other thing I noticed was unhealthy appearance of the plants in my Aquarium. Both the Utricularia gabba and the Amblestegium varium Lindberg were very brown and almost shriveled up. However, I did notice some algae lingering around them. The Fontinalis sp. moss was the only plant which seemed to still be somewhat thriving. Many of the Euglenoids were found swimming around this moss.

Week 3

The addition of the Beta Pellet (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%. ) created a chaotic fight for food in my MicroAquarium. Surrounded the pellet was a diverse array of organisms, all trying to get food. Among the organisms here were:

• Protozoa (what appeared to be Euglenoids (Egmond, 2000))
• A new find called Colpidium
• possibly bacteria
• a few Diatoms were noticeable

I also noticed that the organisms farther away from the food pellet were much less mobile. The most prevalent of these were diatoms, but I also saw two nematodes.