Week 1: Preparing the Micro aquarium

Wednesday in Botany we created our MicroAquarium. I filled mine with water from the water pool below a spring at Lynnhurst Cemetery off of Adair Drive. Knox Co. Knoxville TN. Partial shade exposure Spring Feed Pond N36 01.357 W83 55.731 958 ft which was collected on 10/9/2011. I also added two plants, A and B by pushing them in the aquarium with a needle. I have already found both stationary and moving organisms. The moving organisms are very quick and very small while the majority of the stationary organisms are large and move slowly. One of the stationary organisms looked like a long moving hair or tentacle and the other was large and oval shaped and had hair like spikes coming off of it. Most of these were located around the mud if not in the mud. In the upcoming weeks I will examine these organisms more closely.