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.
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