Week 3

Food Pellet added this week on Oct. 25, 2013:
"Atison's Betta Food" 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%.

This week my aquarium is way more alive then it was the past two weeks. At the food pellet that was added there were tons of Colpidum sp. These organisms are they same as the ones that I was seeing last week. Last week they were just swimming around in open water, but this week they were eating away the food pellet. Also, there was a dead organism that was floating out in the open water that had these organisms all over it. The small Anisonema sp that I saw everywhere last week seem to be gone now. In the bottom of my aquarium there was a Chaetogaster sp. This organism was long and had the look of an earth worm. It acted like he did not like the light because he would keep moving away from it very fast. It also had hairs on his body. As times go by it seems that the organisms are getting larger, and that the smaller organisms are disappearing.

Week 2

This week I can see some changes that have happened. There are many more living organisms then there was last week. I saw Anisonema sp. swimming around in the open waters of my aquarium. These organisms were very small single cell organisms that move at a quick rate. There are many of them swimming around all over the place. This organism has antanna's on it and it also has a vacuole. The organism is a dull color almost clear looking. Next, I saw Colpidum sp. that would swim around in the open water as well. It was fairly slow moving and there was no where near as much of these. These were rounded and had cilia growing all around it. Both of these organisms lived in all parts of my aquarium. Lastly, I saw a very large organism at the bottom of my aquarium living through the dirt. It seemed to be a bottom feeder. It looked like a worm and would move around in a s shape movement. There were also a number of large dead organisms laying in the bottom of the aquarium decomposing. I was very interested to see the many different organisms in my aquarium this week.

Organisms

Colpidum sp.

Patterson DJ. 1992. Free-Living Freshwater Protozoa. London NW: Wolfe Publishing. Figure 388.
 
Anisonema sp.

Patterson DJ. 1992. Free-Living Freshwater Protozoa. London NW: Wolfe Publishing. Figure 78.

Chaetogaster sp.

Rainis KG, Russell BJ. 1996. Guide To Micro Life. Danbury, CT: Grolier Publishing. Figure 107.

Colpidum sp.

Patterson DJ. 1992. Free-Living Freshwater Protozoa. London NW: Wolfe Publishing. Figure 388.