Bibliography

Forest, Herman.  Handbook of Algae.  University of Tennessee Press.  Knoxville.  1954.

Pennak, Robert.  Fresh-water Invertabrates of the United States. 3rd Edition.  John Wiley + Sons. Toronto.  1989.

Tiffany, Lewis.  Algae of Illinois.  University of Chicago Press.  Chicago.  1952

Wayne, Michael J.  Introduction to Algae.  2nd Edition.  Prentice-Hall.  New Jersey.  1985.

Pictures

Here is my Mosquito, larva on top and dead full shot on bottom

Pictures

Here are my moving creatures, top is my rotifer and bottom is a lecane which i found out from
Pennak, Robert. Fresh-water Invertebrates of the United States 3rd Edition. John Wiley + Sons. Toronto. 1989.

Pictures

Here are my pictures of my algae, top right is a coleochaete orbicularis, and the bottom

is a bladder off of amblystegium varium, plant a.  The classification of coleochaete orbicularis was obtained from Tiffany, Lewis. Algae of Illinois. University of Chicago Press. 1952.

Pictures

Here are all three amoeba images... I tried to show you how they moved by taking three pics

Week 5

So the first thing I did this week is asked Dr. McFarland what my "blob" was.  So he looked into it and was in amazingment.  He told me it was a bunch of Gloeotrichia Pisum which is an algae.  So I was right about the algae...yess...lol  But what made Dr. McFarland happy was how clear the pictures of the Pisums were...which I forgot to send to myself...lame.  He told me he rarely sees these algaes this clear and that was cool that I had something awesome in my aquarium.
Well after that I found another sweet algae that looks like an orange cut in half!  That was pretty exciting; found out it was Coleochaete orbicularis, what a name!  But this is now my favorite algae ever. 
Found amoebas.  Awesome how they change shapes to move along like they do.  Reminds me of melting silly putty...lol 
After this I decided to do more research than as to observations.  For instance I found my refrences and citiations for my lab report to come...ugh
But here are some pics of what I thought were super cool.

Week 4

Awwwhhh....week 4.  One week to go which is sad cuz this is actually kinda fun but wow...what a week for me.  First thing I saw in my aquarium is a full grown mosquito!  It is still alive too, but it can't move to well inside so it will die by the next time I see it I fear... I suppose that's what that red worm looking organism was.  The pictures of the mosquito are awesome... I'm going to post them when I get back to UT.
Besides this I have noticed thousands of little cocci growing along with lines of some sort... It might be cyanobacteria?  I don't know though...sorry.
My next finding was a little thing called Lecane.  These organisms are extremely fast and remind me of crab like thing but can fly...lol  The Lecane uses either longish cilia or small flagella to move around so fluently.  They were faster than my mosquito as a larva which is very impressive.
My rotifers are still plentiful and still awesome looking... these are probably my favorite organisms.  I learned that they are called Philodina sp. this week, so that's cool.
Other than this nothing much although I may have saw a slentor but I couldn't quite tell its classification....
Ohhh...one last thing.  That "blob" I was ranting over in week one, well it is creating a CO2 pocket in the center which I find to be amazing!  The blob is obviously an algae of some sort because it is going through respirtation by creating this CO2 pocket....awesome