Organisms Observed:
This little guy is the first of the semester! Hard to find and hard to believe he is still around at this point in the closed environment. Believe it or not this is a member of the Kingdom: Animal and the Phylum: Tardigrada (Rainis 1996). This little guy is hard to capture in video but we gave it a try. If you look closely this little fella has paw like extensions which he swings and "paws" the water with.
Now we move onto some very bright algae. This aglae is easy to notice and name. Its commonly called blue grean algae which as you can see in the provided picture is not hard to gather. Its scientific name however is Coccochloris Stagnina (Forest 1954).
The color does not end there! DIATOMS! In the last observation a few dead diatoms were found. This time however many were found alive and to be very colorful. The highest population of diatoms in this observation was Navicula (Patrick 1966). seen here
After all the excitement we revisit a few previously observed subjects. Protozoa: Anisomea (Patterson 1992), Colpidium (Patterson 1992), and Litonotus (Patterson 1992).
As we noted in the last Observation Anisomea have two different flagella. One for propultion and one that drags behind it and can some times be used to jolt forward. The shorter of the two in this picture is the propulsion flagella that spirals to pull the protozoa forward.
The Litonotus moves with its slender worm like body. Very fast and hard to capture.
the last two protozoa have multiple flagella that are used to move the organism.
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