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.
Wednesday
Tuesday
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.
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
Sunday
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.
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
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
Week 3
So last week we fed our plants an "Atison's Betta Food", which is 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%.
Come to find out this food has increased my level of activity tremendously! For the first time I have saw a new organisim moving around called a Rotifer. These things are sweet looking and how they obtain their food is just as cool. They first attach to any partical that is secure, then they open thier mouth which at the end of has two spinning discs with what looks to be cilia on it (it reminds me of a hay rake on a tractor). These two discs spin opposite of each other in the direction of the mouth, as to "shove" the food down. Once the food enters it is compacted by what looks like two pistons. These pistons are constantly rotating the food thus causing the rotifer to maintain consuming food while in the mean time it is compacting the food so they can consumer more.
Best part of this week was my newest finding. At first it scarred me because it moved so fast and across the whole screen in a matter of seconds. It was red and long, so long that I had to zoom out to the furtherst scope just so I could see the shape of this organism. But this didn't even capture the whole thing. So I decided to take my micro lab out of the microscope and then I could clearly see what I had....an incsect! I had no idea what inscect this was though but I tried to take a picture of it but it hid in the dirt at the bottom so it was impossible to cature an image...
Other than this nothing much else occured, although i have noticed new algae growth.
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%.
Come to find out this food has increased my level of activity tremendously! For the first time I have saw a new organisim moving around called a Rotifer. These things are sweet looking and how they obtain their food is just as cool. They first attach to any partical that is secure, then they open thier mouth which at the end of has two spinning discs with what looks to be cilia on it (it reminds me of a hay rake on a tractor). These two discs spin opposite of each other in the direction of the mouth, as to "shove" the food down. Once the food enters it is compacted by what looks like two pistons. These pistons are constantly rotating the food thus causing the rotifer to maintain consuming food while in the mean time it is compacting the food so they can consumer more.
Best part of this week was my newest finding. At first it scarred me because it moved so fast and across the whole screen in a matter of seconds. It was red and long, so long that I had to zoom out to the furtherst scope just so I could see the shape of this organism. But this didn't even capture the whole thing. So I decided to take my micro lab out of the microscope and then I could clearly see what I had....an incsect! I had no idea what inscect this was though but I tried to take a picture of it but it hid in the dirt at the bottom so it was impossible to cature an image...
Other than this nothing much else occured, although i have noticed new algae growth.
Week 2
On Friday I took my second look at my MicroAquarium. There was only one observation that I could immediately see with my eyes. That observation was a lack of water; since the 14th the water level had dropped from its original state. When I used the microscope I had a vast amount of observations and changes from our set up date. For one the bigger micro-organisms seem to be dying out, because there are not as many of them. I believe what is happening is they are being replaced by a new organism that has a long body and a short head. I don't know the names yet but hopefully soon I will...
As for other observations I noticed that my blob is attracting the little cocci (round) organisms and dirt too. It is as if these cocci organisms are transporting the dirt to the blob and then using it for food or shelter. To add to this there are a lot more micro-organisms moving around. I suppose because they have had time to grow and develop now.
As for other observations I noticed that my blob is attracting the little cocci (round) organisms and dirt too. It is as if these cocci organisms are transporting the dirt to the blob and then using it for food or shelter. To add to this there are a lot more micro-organisms moving around. I suppose because they have had time to grow and develop now.
Speaking on growing, my Plant A's bulbs have a lot of cylinder cocci organisms in it now, but only in the ones that seem to be "dying" possibly? I don't know why the long cocci are in the brownish bulbs but I noticed that all the green bulbs didn't have any organisms in it. So my hypothesis is that all the dying bulbs are being consumed by these long cocci.This drawing above is a micro-organism active bulb that I saw and drew...sorry for bad quality of my camera.
Wednesday
Week 1
Today we started up my MicroAquarium Term Project. The first step in this initial state was to assemble our aquariums. The aquariums are two glass slides hot glued together to create a water tight microscope slide. After this we had a choice of 12 water dishes to retrieve our samples for our aquarium... I choose the sample from the French Broad River... We then placed our sample water in the aquarium and placed two plants to see how the micro-organisims react to the growth of these plants in our sample water.
After we had our MicroAquarium set up we then observed what we saw... My aquarium had a thin layer of dirt on the bottom (approximately 3 mm). Right above this thin layer of dirt lays one "blob". This "blob" fell off of Plant B. The next layer up is Plant A and Plant B. Plant A is on the left center of the slide and Plant B is on the right center portion. Above this is more water. Now under the microscope is a whole different story; an internal constantly moving relam. I've never seen so many little particles moving around before... The sight of them was amazing. It reminded me of a whole little galaxy where each micro-organisim seemed to have a job of some sort. Although I haven't saw any functions of them so far, it was cool just watching these see-through, oval shapped organisms fly by my sight. I followed the biggest one I saw and was gasping at how unreal looking it was. A see-through bubble that had about 20 other bubbles inside of it, that were all different sizes, that "swam" through the water in no organized path and every once in a while it would rotate so I could see it all in 3-D. It almost looked like a computer generated ball of flubber that just spun around and was always moving, while at the same time the little bubbles inside moved along with it. Needless to say I don't know what this is or what it's purpose is, but I intend on learning. I also saw a few other micro-organisms and was awhhed by them too. One was a see-through tube, called a nematode, that seemed to have one end attached to a certain spot in the open water and the other half flailing around like an uncontrolled fire hose. The other micro-organism I happened to get a peak at resembled a snake. It had a snake shapped head from a birds eye view and the body was connected together by multiple hexograms to form this snake like figure. This micro-organism didn't move that much, maybe thats why I only saw one, it kinda just lingured by Plant B as if it were waiting on it's prey to arrive. That would be awesome if it ate something! But the coolest thing that caught my eye was that "Blob" that settled right above the dirt. Have you ever saw one of those electric balls that sends bolts of elecricity from the center to the surface? Well that is what this looked like, the only down side is that the unknown bolts didn't move, they were stationary.
After we had our MicroAquarium set up we then observed what we saw... My aquarium had a thin layer of dirt on the bottom (approximately 3 mm). Right above this thin layer of dirt lays one "blob". This "blob" fell off of Plant B. The next layer up is Plant A and Plant B. Plant A is on the left center of the slide and Plant B is on the right center portion. Above this is more water. Now under the microscope is a whole different story; an internal constantly moving relam. I've never seen so many little particles moving around before... The sight of them was amazing. It reminded me of a whole little galaxy where each micro-organisim seemed to have a job of some sort. Although I haven't saw any functions of them so far, it was cool just watching these see-through, oval shapped organisms fly by my sight. I followed the biggest one I saw and was gasping at how unreal looking it was. A see-through bubble that had about 20 other bubbles inside of it, that were all different sizes, that "swam" through the water in no organized path and every once in a while it would rotate so I could see it all in 3-D. It almost looked like a computer generated ball of flubber that just spun around and was always moving, while at the same time the little bubbles inside moved along with it. Needless to say I don't know what this is or what it's purpose is, but I intend on learning. I also saw a few other micro-organisms and was awhhed by them too. One was a see-through tube, called a nematode, that seemed to have one end attached to a certain spot in the open water and the other half flailing around like an uncontrolled fire hose. The other micro-organism I happened to get a peak at resembled a snake. It had a snake shapped head from a birds eye view and the body was connected together by multiple hexograms to form this snake like figure. This micro-organism didn't move that much, maybe thats why I only saw one, it kinda just lingured by Plant B as if it were waiting on it's prey to arrive. That would be awesome if it ate something! But the coolest thing that caught my eye was that "Blob" that settled right above the dirt. Have you ever saw one of those electric balls that sends bolts of elecricity from the center to the surface? Well that is what this looked like, the only down side is that the unknown bolts didn't move, they were stationary.
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