Setting up the MicroAquarium:
First I select a glass tank, a stand holder, and a lid with putty on the edges. Then with the proper colored stickers, the tank is labeled with the lab section, the table, and the seat number at the table. Using the pipet, I extracted water from the bottom of bowl number two, with water from the French Broad River, Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge, Kelly Lane , Knox Co. Tennessee. Partial shade exposure French Broad River Water Shed N35 56.742 W83 41.628 841 ft 10/10/2010, to fill the aquarium 1/3 of the way. The next 1/3 came from water in the middle of bowl number two and the last 1/3 came from the surface of the bowl. With the aquarium in the stand, it gets decorated with some plant parts or mosses provided.
In my observations, I saw some really cool things in the aquarium. The first thing that grabbed my attention was a small transparent rotafer that looked like a tiny sting ray on plant b. It looked like it was eating the plant and i could see the plant moving around inside the creature. As i was looking at the aquarium through the microscope, there were all kinds of bugs zooming in and out of my sight.
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