Week 3

Week 3 marks the period of explosive biological expansion. The Friday before I did my Week 3 Observations Dr. McFarland placed food pellets inside our microaquariums. The few life forms that world still living in my aquarium obviously ambushed this food pellet. By the next Wednesday, when I made my observations, the amount of life forms had doubled if not tripled. The picture below shows a Coleochaete Scutata which I had not seen in my aquarium in the previous weeks. The amount of diverse life forms has me very excited and I cannot wait to see what the future weeks holds.

Fig. 87 Coleochaete Scutata pg. 90*

*Forest, Herman S. Handbook of Algae. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1954. Print.