Day 15

There has been a dramatic change in the amount of organisms in my micro-aquarium since food has been added to the aquariums.  As soon as I looked through the microscope I seen a abundance of life swimming around and munching on plant materials.  Just as last week, there are still hundreds if not thousands of rotifers swimming around, but this week for the first time I noticed a oval shaped organism named a Tachysoma floating around eating off the food that was inserted into the aquarium.  It is surrounded with "immotile dorsal bristles" that sometimes get confussed with "cirri" (Patterson page 125).  The video above is of a Lakowitziuna Rotifer that I found last week.  The last thing I studied during the time I had in the lab was a organism called a "paramecium" ( Patterson page 133), from what I saw it was a circular organism that resembled a human brain, and was very slow moving.


                                                                               Work Cited
Patterson, D. J. Free-Living Freshwater protozoa: A Colour Guide. New York: Manson, 1996.