Works Cited

Fox, Richard. "Inervetebrate Anatomy Online." Philodina Rotifer. 2001. Lander University, Web. 11 Nov 2009. http://webs.lander.edu/rsfox/inervetebrates/philodina.html.

Integrative and Comparative Biology 2002 42(3):660-667; doi:10.1093/icb/42.3.660
2002 by the society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.
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Pennack, Robert. Fresh Water Invertebrates of the United States. 3rd.
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Segers, H. (2009) Philodina Roseola Ehrenberg, 1832. In: Segers, H. )Ed.) (2009). World Rotifera database from FADA. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=247966 on 2009-11-11

Week Five

This week things seem to look pretty much the same as last week the same rotifers were seen moving around eating particles. There seemed to be a few more single celled organisms seen moving about. The video above of the Philodina Rotifer shows the Rotifer eating things and then i tapped on the stage and the Rotifer immediately callapsed and then after a few seconds came back up. The picture about of the organism is a Lacaeing Rotifer it moves quickly around the aquarium and it was extremely hard to get a good picture of eating or actually in motion. There is a picture above of the trap that i talked about in my blog last week. The aquarium has shown significant growth over the past five weeks and will continue to grow and more organisms will probably start to show up.

Week Four

While observing my microaquarium this week a few more organisams were identified. There was a lacae Rotifer and it was moving around quickly eating small particles. A Halteria was identified spinning around in circles. A Haltaria is a small organism that is hard to see there were many of them all over the aquarium. A trap was identified in the plants, the trap catches things and they die in the trap and then parameciums consume the decaying debris. Also a Philodina Rotifer was identified on a plant i took a video of it but at the moment it will not load i will post it next week. The Philodina Rotifer was extremely interesting to obsesrve it would calapse when i tapped on the stage. My microaquarium is growing and flourishing week by week i will post more next week.