We have started out term project in Biology 111, also known as Botany. Our term project consists of a personal microorganism aquarium, and our observations of said microorganism aquarium. My observations will be recorded in this blog over the next four week period.
We started out term project by making the aquarium itself out of a small rectangular, extremely thin, glass container. We had a selection of different water and soil sources, which will be recorded in the next blog update. The first element of the aquarium consisted of the dirt which we deposited into the bottom of our aqaurium's to give out microorganisms both a "home" and food. Then we took a sample of water from the same source our soil came from and filled the aquarium until it was about three fourths of the way full. Along with the soil and water we also placed two plant samples into the aquarium to observe the effect the plant might have over out organisms over the period of the project.
I was surprised by the amount of life I saw in my aquarium already. I have a multiple single celled organisms, which to me look like little black moving dots. I also have an organism that i have decided to make my new pet. Yes out lab teachers said the girls would do this, and I have. Aside from my single celled organisms I also have a cyclops which I have named Scott. He is a microscopic "bug" and while he is transparent for the most part, you can clearly see his shape, that looks like plate like armor. He has a oval body with a "tail" and three "legs" on each side of his body. What defines Scott from other microscopic bugs, is the bright red dot on the top of his head, thus a cyclops. From what I observed this week, he tends to move either through the dirt or on the outer edges of the aquarium wall.
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