Week 5: MicroAquarium observations

• In this week's observations I viewed three annelids and one cyclops organism.
• The tank is of a blander color than in the first few week's observations. There is not much algae in the bottom mud of the tank still ever since last week. 
• I observed one Turbellarian organism as before moving in the middle of the tank.
• I observed another cyclops carcass in the mud at the bottom of the tank.
• The cyanobacteria which was once thriving seems to be slightly growing throughout the middle of the tank but still significantly less than once was but more than last week.
• The wiggly amoeba-farm is still absent since last week.
• All in all, the food pellet may have killed the cyanobacteria somehow and then killed many organisms in the tank because they ran out of a food source.

Beta Food Pellet date added

• On Friday October 26, 2012 one Beta Food Pellet was added into the MicroAquarium. The pellet was "Atison's Betta Food" made by Ocean Nutrition, Aqua Pet Americas, 3528 West 500 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84104. Ingredients: Fish meal, wheat flower, soy meal, krill meal, minerals, vitamins and preservatives. Analysis: Crude Protein 36%; Crude fat 4.5%; Crude Fiber 3.5%; Moisture 8% and Ash 15%. 

Week 4: MicroAquarium observations

• Nearly all of the cyanobacteria has disappeared, probably because it was used as a food source for numerous organisms in the tank.
• I observed four analids scraping the few remains of the cyanobacteria, collected at the mid-right of the tank against the wall.
• This has been the fewest number of organisms that I have observed so far.
• I found a cyclops carcass at the bottom of the tank in the mud.
• There are also considerably less bacteria in the tank (the "amoeba farm" which was viewed in last week's observation).

MicroAquarium microscope photos