November 11

Paramecium bursaria is a species of ciliate protozoan that has a mutualistic symbiotic algae relationship with green called Zoochlorella. The algae live inside the Paramecium in its cytoplasm and provide it with food, while the Paramecium provides the algae with movement and protection.P. bursaria is the only species of Paramecium that forms symbiotic relationships with algae

Some rotifers are free swimming and truly planktonic, others move by inchworming along the substrate, and some are sessile, living inside tubes or gelatinous holdfasts that are attached to a substrate. About 25 species are colonial (e.g., Sinantherina semibullata), either sessile or planktonic. Rotifers are an important part of the freshwater zooplankton, being a major foodsource and with many species also contributing to the decomposition of soil organic matter.

Diatoms are a major group of algae, and are one of the most common types of phytoplankton. Most diatoms are unicellular, although they can exist as colonies in the shape of filaments or ribbons. This one is a filament type. A characteristic feature of diatom cells is that they are encased within a unique cell wall made of silica .

Friday october 29

          I observed off the bat a non-pigmented  Copepod, which is part of the Crustcans. It was in the bottom space in between the plant and soil. I didn,t really find anymore of these but they were not present last week. There was a tail present and they were very quick.
        I also noted a lot of Cyanobacteria in the micro aquarium. They were mostly green in color and inhabited most of the aquarium. They did not have flagella to propell them. They were also on the bladders that i observed which were more sporatic.
       It seems the beta food added this week is inhabited by most of the Cyanobacteria. But when I looked closer I noticed a Nematoad in the Beta food as well. This was only one of these seen this day.

Observation October 22

I saw some micro life swimming around the aquarium. It seemed that they had flagella to propel them through the water. The number recorded were numerous sitings. These organisms seemed to be in the bottom, and middle layers of the aquarium. I wouldnt be surprised if even a few were at the top. They were also non green, or no pigments.
I also saw a very large parasitic organisms compared to the ones before this. It seemed they were staying on plant A eating on it. It had a flagella as well for movement. I did not see as many of these floating around. It was non pigmented like the last organisms to.
The last thing i observered was bladders of the plant material. ITs where the plant overlaps and creates a membrane bound sac.

Setting up the micro aquarium

Today we set up our micro aquarium. We first selected a water type to be used with several different choices. I chose the water pool in Fountain city. Then we put our two organisms in. These included Fontinalis sp. Moss., and Utricularia gibba L.. We then observed what we saw.