Monday, October 29, 2007

Semaine Une

During the first week of the observation i found a couple of new microrganisms in my Mike the Microaquarium. One of the larger of the new found organisms was a cyclops, it looks like a plated jellyfish with four antennae and two tails. When i first found it it was attacking a much smaller microrganism, and eventually ended up consuming it. Another organism that has still not been identified is a smaller spider looking thing with four hairy legs. It seemed as if it was crawling around on the side of the microquarium. Another new one i found, that also has not been identified was a oval shaped organism with lots of small fins/legs surrounding its entire body and what looked to be one eye at the top of its head. This organism was seen juming around extreamly fast throughout the microaquarium. And a final very small organsim, maybe 2 cells wide, was very simple. It contained only a body and a tail with no other distinct figures on it. Lots of single celled organisms could still be seen swiming around in the aquarium, including a colony of rod shaped single celled organisms near the moss at the top of the microaquarium. The organisms that i had found earlier were still present. The shimp thing was also identified as a Seed Shrimp. The globule organisms were still present as well, and existed in a larger number with both large and small ones. Other than that everything still remained the same. One thing i did notice, however, was that there was a lot of small plastic bag, clear things piled on top of the debris at the bottom, i couldn't quite make out what they were, but they were deffinatly not alive. I may have been decomposing corpses of some dead microorganisms. I will find out next week what they might be. See you next week!

No comments: