Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Week Five Observations 11-9-10

Before putting the aquarium under the microscope, I observed several things.  The water this week has a cloudy appearance with a clear green tint slim.  There are also large air bubbles on plant B. I can also still see the seed shrimp swimming around like crazy in the bottom of the aquarium. There are now two seed shrimp.

This is a picture looking down on the Seed Shrimp.


There appears to be more life in the aquarium, but there is also sightly more death than I saw last week.  I saw a Paramecium Bursania and the really cool thing about this was it was in the middle of dividing.  It was really interesting to get to see that.



This is what a Paramecium Bursania looks like while going through the stages of division.


Bacteria was spotted like above, all over the aquarium.  Dr. McFarland was unsure of what type of bacteria this was and wanted to keep a picture for himself to take and show the bacteria specialist on campus, and thought maybe even she wouldn't for sure know what type it was.


The picture above shows two Paramesia.  These can be seen all over the aquarium.  They move around and are identified by their spiral movement.

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