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