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.