Plant life and animal life this week have again made a significant increase! The algae population has grown to about twice of its volume from what it was last week. There are some brown string like growth structures that have appeared on sections of the moss this week. I believe they might be the beginnings of root structures, as they are growing towards the bottom of the aquarium. The also are only appearing on the ends of certain parts of the moss, this also leading me to the conclusion that they are roots.
The Animal life has again increased significiantly, especially in the higher life forms. The multi-cellular forms have shown the biggest increase. There are a lot more Plenariums, Copepods, and Cyclops. In fact Dr. McFarland observed some creatures that I had seen, and there were many of them around the aquarium, and we identified them as baby Cyclops!
During the observation, I was able to see where a Cyclops had died and left it’s skeleton. At the remains were approximately a dozen paramecium circling, and bumping, and perhaps crawling along the body. It seemed as if they were feeding, or trying to feed off of it.
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