1)Lee J. John. Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa. Lawrence, KS: Allen Press Inc., 1985. pg 203
2) Patterson, D.J. Free-Living Freshwater Protozoa: A Color Guide. New York, NY: Wolfe Publishing, 1992. pgs 125, 133, 91, 98, 158.
3) Russel J. Bruce, Rainis G. Kenneth. Guide to Microlife. Scholastic Library Publishing, 1996. pgs 92, 124.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Last Week
On November 12 I observed:
Lots of arcella - I'm not sure why but I saw more of these than anything else. Attached to some of these were diatoms taking a free ride.
Centropyxis - I saw a few of these, they look very similar to the arcella but instead of being perfectly round they had distinct spines. Below is a picture
Peranema - these have a cylindrical boy that tapers in front and truncates at the rear and has a single, long, unusually thick flagella that rotates at its tip.
Rotifers - very few compared to past observations
Litonotus- I saw a few of these, they are flask shaped, And I was able to capture its vacuole opening and closing. It is sort of hard to see with this small a video, but if you look at the back of the litonotus you can see a small hole that will open then close.
Although I did not mention this earlier but everything I identified during this experiment appeared to be mobile.
This being the last week of observations I can clearly see that this last weeks amount of organisms is very similar to the amount of organisms of the first weeks observations. The few weeks in between there was a huge spike in the amount of organisms because of the food pellet that was added. More food means the more life the aquarium could maintain but once the food supply diminished so did the organisms.
Lots of arcella - I'm not sure why but I saw more of these than anything else. Attached to some of these were diatoms taking a free ride.
Centropyxis - I saw a few of these, they look very similar to the arcella but instead of being perfectly round they had distinct spines. Below is a picture
Peranema - these have a cylindrical boy that tapers in front and truncates at the rear and has a single, long, unusually thick flagella that rotates at its tip.
Rotifers - very few compared to past observations
Litonotus- I saw a few of these, they are flask shaped, And I was able to capture its vacuole opening and closing. It is sort of hard to see with this small a video, but if you look at the back of the litonotus you can see a small hole that will open then close.
Although I did not mention this earlier but everything I identified during this experiment appeared to be mobile.
This being the last week of observations I can clearly see that this last weeks amount of organisms is very similar to the amount of organisms of the first weeks observations. The few weeks in between there was a huge spike in the amount of organisms because of the food pellet that was added. More food means the more life the aquarium could maintain but once the food supply diminished so did the organisms.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Week 4
On November 5 I observed:
I was able to identify lots of new stuff.
I was able to identify lots of new stuff.
- Tachysoma, which have cirri to help them move and have a spastic jerky motion.
- A shelled rotifer hanging out next to the dirt.
- about 5 Amoebas. These look like slime moving around
- some Arcellas, Mayorellas, oscillatoria and protcoccus
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Week 3
On October 28 a few days after a food pellet was added to my microaquarium, I observed:
Annelids: I still see the same amount of annelids but it looks like their size has doubled.
2 Tachysoms: green in color so photosynthetic
about 10 Metopus sigmoides: they liked hanging around the new food supply that was introduced into the aquarium. They have an oblong cell body and their anterior is twisted to the left.
many Rotifers: there is by far more rotifers than any other organism in my microaquarium
Halteria: these are high in number getting closer to the amount of rotifers. They have a spherical
body and long stiff cilia present equatorially. I even saw some of these dividing.
Annelids: I still see the same amount of annelids but it looks like their size has doubled.
2 Tachysoms: green in color so photosynthetic
about 10 Metopus sigmoides: they liked hanging around the new food supply that was introduced into the aquarium. They have an oblong cell body and their anterior is twisted to the left.
many Rotifers: there is by far more rotifers than any other organism in my microaquarium
Halteria: these are high in number getting closer to the amount of rotifers. They have a spherical
body and long stiff cilia present equatorially. I even saw some of these dividing.
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