Week One

10-24-2012

I observed my MicroAquarium this week after letting the water and plants sit for seven days.  I placed the slide under the microscope and found quite a few interesting things.

Most of the movement I saw was in the middle of the tank and the organisms seemed to prefer the fern.

I found three moving creatures that were round and mostly clear.  They had pincers that they appeared to be using to eat the fern.  I found two more of these that were completely still at the bottom of the tank, presumably dead, and one that looked almost exactly the same except it was half the size of the others.  I also found two very tiny round swimming organisms.

Perhaps the most interesting thing that I found was a large organism that looked, to my mind, like a rat.  It was in a hurry and it had two tails.  It sped around the tank as if it were looking for something (presumably food) but it never seemed to find it.

Hopefully next week I will be able to identify these organisms.