Micro Aquarium Observation 11/11/2013

When I went to observe my micro aquarium on 11/7, there was a lot more activity than there has been in the past. I observed many rotifers and vorticella, as mentioned in the last blog. There was a lot of debris as well where organisms had left their tracks or eaten. This is the first time I observed diatoms, however. A diatom is pictured in figure 1 (Patrick and Reimer, 1966). I also saw cilia. A Stentor is pictured in figure 2. (Patterson, 1996). The most intriguing thing I saw was a Heretophery going through mitosis (Patterson, 1996). This is pictured in figure 3.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3