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.