Week 3 of the MicroAquarium

On Friday, October 22, 2010, Dr. McFarland added one Beta Food Pellet to our micro-aquariums. 
Information on this beta food pellet is listed below. 
"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%.


Today I saw a large blueish colored ball on Plant B. Dr. McFarland and I discovered that it was a bladder. I did not know plants had bladders, but they do. I saw many more bladders on Plant B but I noticed that the others were green, not blue. I saw the nematode again. This time I saw a few nematodes. Dr. McFarland also noticed a seed shrimp in my micr-aquarium. This was new to me, I had not seen it before. I also saw a snail. It was on Plant A. This was the first week I had noticed it. It was pretty large. I still concluded that there was more action on Plant B, but Plant A had more than usual, because the Beta Food Pellet was on that side. There was also more air bubbles throughout the micro-aquarium.
        Bad news, Dr. McFarland and I believe the annelid passed away. We saw no remnants but could not find the annelid and it was rather large last week. This could be due to the fact that I accidentally spilt some water out of the micro-aquarium onto the lab floor, the annelid could have fell out. :( I added more water. I have spilt the water twice now, so there may be a few more critters that will not be in there next week.