Semaine Trois

The first thing i noticed when i walked into the room to check my microaquarium was that there was significantly less water in the tank. I don't know if this was because of evaporation or because it may have gotten knocked over. Some of the other classmates had the same problem. I added some more distilled tap water. The tank still had seed shrimps, cyclops, rhodefords, and the long worm looking things. I saw a worm thing which i later identified as a nematode swimming around the same as it did before and then started to follow a passing seed shrimp. I also found some Annelids and a dust mite of which i included two pictures. It was crawling slowly on the moss at the top of the tank. I had to admit i was really sad to have discovered when i looked at the tank under the microscope that with the water gone there was significantly less of every organism in the tank, especially the juvenile cyclops. They were about everywhere in the tank before the water was gone now i could only find one of them. Hopefully this next week will bring back some more organisms out of hiding with the new water i added to the tank.