Observation 3: 29 October 2010

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     I went in for my third observation on Friday, October 29, 2010.  I learned that on Friday, October 22, 2010, one beta food pellet had been added to my micro-aquarium.  The information for the food pellet is posted at the end of this post.  As far as my observations go, I observed three different sections of the aquarium: the soil, plant A on the left, and plant B on the right.  In the soil, I observed many small circular organisms moving around.  There were many of them but I do not think they are significant at this stage in their development.  I also noticed some larger organisms that were using flagella to move around efficiently.  Moving through the soil I noticed an annelid.
     I seem to have many worms living in my aquarium because when I went to observe plant A, there were multiple worms of all different types.  I saw many annelids as well as planarians, which are flatworms.  I took a video of one flatworm (a Stenostomum Leucops) moving around and have linked it below.
                           
I also noticed an Actinosphaerium attempting to digest an organism.  It was very interesting and I wanted to take a video but I was unable to find it again underneath the camera.
     Last time I went in for observations, I saw almost all of the substantial life surrounding plant B, but this week I noticed little to no large life.  I am not sure for the cause of this yet but one idea I have is that the food pellet was inserted on the side nearer plant A.  I did notice, however, the bladder's on Plant B and they were very interesting.  This concludes my observations for October 29, 2010.

Information for food pellet:
"Atison's Betta Food" made by Ocean Nutrition, Aqua Pet Americas, 3528 West 500 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84104. Ingredients: Fish meal, wheat flower, soy meal, krill meal, minerals, vitamins and preservatives. Analysis: Crude Protein 36%; Crude fat 4.5%; Crude Fiber 3.5%; Moisture 8% and Ash 15%.