INFORMATIONS
The plant A and the plant B that are in my glass tank which I was not sure at first, but more information comes from this link: http://botany1112009.blogspot.com/. The plant A is Amblystegium varium (Hedw). It comes from moss and it is collected in partial shade from the Natural Spring at Carters Mill Park on Cater Mill road.
The plant B is Utricularia vulgaris L. Flowering. It comes from the south shore of Spain Lake on Camp Bella Air road from east Sparta of Tennessee. It was grown in water tanks outside of greenhouse at Hesler Biology Building at the University of Tennessee.
Once a week I will have to add one small food for organisms in my glass tank. It is called "Beta" Food Pellet. It is made by Ocean Nutrition - Aqua Pet Americas from 3528 W. 500 S. in Salt Lake City of Utah. Its ingredients are fish meal, wheat flower, soy meal, krill meal, minerals, and vitamins.
OBSERVATION TWO
The second observation of my microaquarium on Thursday, Oct 22nd, I saw a few of the same organisms from last week. I saw Cyclop (Eucopepoda) with big black or dull-grayish egg sacs. Its one black eye located in the middle of the head. It swims jerkily as happily around the Plant A. The egg sacs show that it is a female organism and it is "free-living copepods." It looks like a grayish, elongated body and it have many flagellum to swim around. It prefers to be in quiet waters. There are several more of them in the glass tanks. Take a look at two images at bottom of Cyclop with egg sacs and a young stage of Cyclop.
Other new organism I didn't see in first observation, it looks like it comes from a family of Cyclop, but if you take a closer look at 3 images at bottom. It has a usual shape of blotted black eye unlike Cyclop's and it has arms like lobster. The problem is Cyclop have a long tail of the body, this one doesn't have any. They like to hang around the plant B.
I observed some of organism like the green alga, spirogyra, and an up-closed image of blue-green cyanobacteria at below. Some of new organisms I saw and identified by "Guide to Microlife" by Rainis and Russel: threadworms, flatworms (Stenostomum leucops), rhyziod, rotifera & seed shrimp (ostracods). See images below from top to bottom in order: threadworms, flatworms, cyanobacteria & seed shrimp.
This peculiar image of green alga (plant A) at the bottom shows some color of red and invisible linear roots. It is called filamentous rhizoid (rhyziod). Rhizoids are multicellular and it serves only to anchor to plants.
I can see its helix-shaped by cocci lined up spirally. That is spirogyra. It is filamentous, non-motile, and they lack flagellated cells. Its color pigment shows that it contains chloroplasts.
There is lot of going on in my microaquarium than before. Most of organism has grown bigger and more noticably in concise shape. Compare in first observation in Oct. 14th I used 4x and 10x to observed organims in the tank; I saw only one Cyclop, lots of zigzags cells, filamentous string-like spirogyra & cyanobacteria.
REFERENCES
Cook & McFarland. (1995). General Botany 111 Lab. Manual. Unit 16.
McFarland. (2009) General Botany 111 2009. Retrieved data by 20, Oct. 2009. http://botany1112009.blogspot.com/
Rainis, Kenneth G. & Russell, Bruce J. (1996) Guide to Microlife. Franklin Watts: Danbury, Connecticut. p. 179, 204, 209, & 230
Raven, Evert, & Eichhorn. (2005). Biology of Plant 7th ed. New York, New York: W. H. Freeman & Company Publishers. p. 348
Ward B., Henry & Whipple, George. (1918). Fresh-water Biology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 335.
Raven, Evert, & Eichhorn. (2005). Biology of Plant 7th ed. New York, New York: W. H. Freeman & Company Publishers. p. 348
Ward B., Henry & Whipple, George. (1918). Fresh-water Biology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 335.
