Monday, October 28, 2013

Update 1

 This is the first check up after fall break, and everything was
doing ok. There were many microorganisms with cilia moving 
about. There were several amoebas that I saw.

 On the Utricularia I saw what appeared to be an insect larva 
feeding on the stem of the plant. I managed to catch a few pictures
and video of a Cyclops sp. (Ward and Whipple, 1918) swimming around. 
You can see the internal organs moving in the video. In the bottom 
corner of the aquarium there appeared to be remains of another
that was being picked clean by many single celled organisms. I
will add in a picture when I can fix the file.


All classifying was confirmed with the help of Dr. McFarland.

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