4th Viewing

In the fourth viewing of my microaquarium I did not get any pictures but I viewed the aquarium through one of the microscopes that were not attached to the computer. In viewing the aquarium I noticed that there are a lot more specimens swimming around. The snells are getting a lot bigger and i do not think they are going to die. The specimens that are in the aquarium seem to stay around plant b rather than plant A. The water in the aquarium still looks clear it hasnt really darkened at all and I thought that it would.

3rd viewing of microaquariums

In viewing the microaquarium saw that a lot the the organisms are reproducing and there are a lot more organisms than there was at the beginning. A lot of the organisms are getting bigger also the snells that are in my aquarium are getting a lot bigger and I am surprised they are alive I thought that they would have died.

This Laxophyllum sp. is unique because if you look closly to the lower edge of the specimen you will see little bump like structures which are warts that are part of the Laxophyllum sp.

In the photo there are four egg like structures that are contained within a sack. You can not see the sack because I did not have any lower magnification on my microscope but the four black dots that you see are a cluster of maybe cells of some sort but me nor Dr. McFarland could figure out exactly what this was.

 

Patterson, David J. Free-living Freshwater Protozoa: a Colour Guide. New York: Wiley, 1996. 131-             132. Print.