Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Entry 5

For observations recorded on Nov. 16 2012:

- About half of the water content had evaporated once more.
-The Amblestegium sank into the bottom of the Aquarium tank.
-Amount and variety of organisms observed was much greater than the previous observation

Creatures observed

-About 2 Diffludgia (sp.), one feeding using a tube protruding from it (Jahn 1949)
-4 Halteria (sp.), freely floating around the Aquarium (Jahn 1949) 
-An Actinosphaerium (sp.) off the tip of an Amblestegium leaf (Jahn 1949)  Seen approx. 3 prior, but not noted. Another noted freely floating.
-Endless Diatoms everywhere in the Aquarium. Some now organized into filamentous structures, forming stacks of cells.
-Another Vorticella (sp.) noted freely floating in the water, oddly.
-About three more Paramecium, one not even floating in the water.

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