Thursday, October 14, 2010

In lab we set up our micro aquarium. We were given a glass tank, a stand holder, and a lid. Then we labeled our tank with colored dots according to where we sit in the classroom and which water sample we took. I took a sample from bowl 8 which was the Tennessee River at the boat ramp across from Knoxville sewer plant. Then with a pipet I gathered some water with a little bit of soil and put it in the tank. While looking at the micro aquarium through the microscope I only saw two organisms. One I caught a short glance at and it looked just like an ordinary bug running around, then it disappeared. I saw another one that was a snakelike or wormlike that was stationary the whole time and only moved one end of its body like an inchworm.

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