Week #1 Observations

For the first week of the Biology 111 Term Project we set up our MicroAquarium. I set mine up by first putting the correct color dots on the glass tank so my MicroAquarium could be identified. Then using a pipet, I extracted water from one of the containers on the lab bench. The water I used was from site number 10, which is a water pool in Lynnhurst Cemetery off of Adair Drive. Knox Co. I extracted water from the bottom of the container until the MicroAquarium was 1/3 full. The next 1/3 was taken from the middle layer of the container. The last 1/3 was taken from the surface. I used some plants and moss to decorate the MicroAquarium. Plant A is Amblystegium varium (Hedw.) Lindb. Moss from at natural spring at Carters Mill Park. Plant B is Utricularia vulgaris L., which is a flowering, carnivous plant from south shore of Spain Lake in White Co. Tenn.
Using a microscope I observed the contents of my MicroAquarium. At first, I could not see any movement, but finally I saw a large organism, that was later identified as a water mite, moving around the bottom of my MicroAquarium. I could not anything other than that moving in my MicroAquarium. I am sure that I will see a lot more interseting things in my next observation.