1st Micro-aquarium observation

On Thursday, October 20th, I observed my micro-aquarium for the first time since assembling it in lab. Several things had changed since creating my aquarium:

• Much of the water had evaporated (My water sample was taken from the nature quarry from Iiams Nature Park)
• The small sprigs of plant that we included in the aquarium seemed like they had grown some, or at lest had spread out across the plastic frame
• There were several microscopic organisms living amongst the plants hat were placed in the aquarium 
• When observed under the microscope on the 10x objective, they appeared to be eating much the soil and then desecrating in the water

With the help of Dr. McFarland, we identifies 3 organisms:

- There was one Cyclops skeleton
-There were several Rotifers swimming amongst the soil and plant particles 

-We also identified a Daphnia (Under the microscope, it appeared to have small red eyes and a flagella)