Thursday, November 12, 2009



The vorticelia like the rotifera attach one end to an object. The vorticelia has a long chord then a spinning motor at the end. In a way looks like a flower on a stem.


Rotifera tend to latch onto objects and wave around from that center point. Notice the motorlike spinners on the rear.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Observation Two: Beta Food 10/20

Plant A:
contains both see through and darker bulbs along the stems. The stems compared to Plant B are more see through. Plant A also contains some dead brown strands. Bubbly see through bugs seemed to be feeding off of Plant A.
Plant B:
contain thicker stem with leaf-like growths. There were small gnat looking critters scattered throughout Plant B. Along the base where plant B met the solid matter there were several large glob creatures

Beta Food:
A single pellet of Beta food was added to the specimen. This had no sudden impact on either Plant A, Plant B, nor the solid matter.

Observation One and Setup 10/14

Setup:
Preparing the specimen included water source #11 in a specimen slide.This water source was gathered along with a layer of solid matter along the bottom of the slide. In addition samples of Plant A. and Plant B. were placed in the water specimen.

Observation:
Near the solid matter of the sample on the bottom, there was spastic movement from small objects. Also noticed was one extremely large jelly fish-like organism along the bottom. Small dark gnat looking swimmers and bubbly floating things were at various places throughout the specimen.