Week 4

Thursday November 12, was the final day to look at my microaquarium. The first organism I noticed was a cyclops. Two weeks ago I observed a juvenile cyclops; however, this cyclops was much larger. I'm not sure if this was a new cyclops or if this cyclops was the same as I had observed a few weeks ago. Nevertheless, he was playing hide and seek with me for quite a while. Obviously he was annoyed by the light of the microscope chasing after him. In the left hand corner, I saw the difflugia moving it's finger-like appendages in and out. It continued to move in this way for quite a while. Next, I saw a rotifer at work. This rotifer was attached to a piece of algae and appeared to be sucking. After approximately three minutes, the rotifer stopped sucking and rested beside the algae for a moment and then quickly jetted off. I have enjoyed observing my microaquarium over the past few weeks and learning about the different organisms living in it.