Week 1

 The water source that I uses was source number 3:

Carter Mill Park at spring source, Carter Mill Road, Knox, Co. Tennessee Partial shade exposure N36 01. 168 W83 42.832 940 ft 10/13/2013.

 The plants that I used in my microaquarium are:

 Amblestegium varium (Hedwig) Lindberg. Moss. Collection from: Natural spring. at Carters Mill Park, Carter Mill Road, Knox Co. TN. Partial shade exposure. N36 01.168 W83 42.832. 10/13/2013

 Fontinalis sp. Moss.  Collected from: Holston River along John Sevier Hwy under I 40 Bridge Partial shade exposure Holston River water Shed N36 00.527 W83 49.549 823 ft 10/13/2013

 Utricularia gibba L. Flowering plant. A carnivous plant. Original material from south shore of Spain Lake (N 35o55 12.35" W088o20' 47.00), Camp Bella Air Rd. East of Sparta Tn. in White Co. and grown in water tanks outside of greenhouse at Hesler Biology Building. The University of Tennessee. Knox Co. Knoxville TN. 10/13/2013

While looking into my microaquarium for the first time I saw many interesting things. The organisms that were in there were moving around. Each organism would move differently. The very few big organisms that I saw looked like worms and would move around like an earth worm would. The many small single celled organisms would be swimming around fairly quickly, but when they passed by the larger organisms the would be eaten. Also, I noticed that the large organisms were green and the small organisms were a brownish black looking color. It was also very interesting to see how the organisms I saw were all located around the middle of the aquarium where the plants are at. I assumed this was because there is more food on the plants then anywhere else.