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.