Week 4

Week 4 is the second week following the addition of the food pellet. In week 3, there was a huge increase in the amount of life forms in my microaquarium. Week 4 shows a different result. As I had expected the amount of biodiversity found this week was much less than the previous week. This is to be expected, since the food pellet was most likely completely consumed during the first week. During that week, the life forms reproduced many times, leading to the huge increase. This week since the food source was depleted, the amount of life found has decreased. There are still a number of life forms swimming around, more than were found in week 1. The picture below shows an insect larva that Dr. McFarland helped me to identify. There were no books in his possession that clearly identified the type of insect larva, but nonetheless, we did determine it was some type of insect larva.

Insect Larva