MicroAquarium Day 5

Prior to this examination day, I broke my MicroAquarium the week before. I had to exchange all the material and plants to a new container. I thought that since I disrupted the environment the plant life would slow down or stop for a certain time; fortunately, there was actually new life in the MicroAquarium that I had not seen. Under closer inspection I discovered a few developing organisms that I had not seen. A small midge was developing on a jumbled piece of Utricularia gibba  floating near a new food pellet. This is surprising because I was getting the thought that my MicroAquarium was slowly dieing because I had not seen as much activity like I had seen in the first few weeks. Another find was a smaller Planera like the one I had lost track of but now there is a new one. My only expectations are to see the Midge develop more and possibly see the Midge develop into an insect. As for the Planera, I hope this time it does not disappear like the last one and continues to develop. A few things that I noticed were no longer visible were the green small strands of what look like new plant tissue or possibly the moss growing outward. Since I broke the MicroAquarium, I guess that anything that was developing either spilled out on the table or just stopped.

MicroAquarium Observation Day 4

A few different things I noted was that there was not as many Tropidoscyphus as last time. My guess is that some have have developed into other organisms; however, I noticed that there is almost a layer of green fibers laying across the soil. My hypothesis is that the layers of green fibers may be from the Amblestegium moss. Another thing I noted is that there seems to be little green stems growing from the soil almost like the plants are spreading out, but I just think it is a coincidence that the fibers look like that. The Netrium have also gained a deeper green color compared to how each looked the last week. A food pellet was dropped into the water recently so next week I should expect to find more activity.