Materials And Methods

While doing my weekly observations, I used an Olympus CX31 Compound microscope and the observations were made at 40X and 100X only.
The images I took were made by using a Sony Handycam (still imaging and video recording) HDR-HC9 or HDR-XR500v cameras with a Martin Microscope MM99 Adapter S/N: 4310 adapter to attach to microscope trinocular head.
The computer that were used with my images were either a Dell Optiplex 755 or Optiplex 960.
Also, the software that was used to edit my images was the Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. Videos were processed using Pinnacle Studio 12.

November 12, 2010

During my observations today, I noticed there was much more activity in my microaquarium. I did not notice any new organisms, however I did notice many organisms that had gotten larger in size, such as the Midge that is living in my microaquarium.
Also, during my observations this week I took a couple pictures of some of the organisms that are inhabiting my microaquarium.

November 5, 2010

During this observation, I noticed that there were many more organisms scattered around my microaquarium than there were in my last observation. The main spot in my microaquarium where I noticed more organisms had appeared was beneath the soil against the very bottom of my microaquarium. Also, I noticed more Pinnularias, a type of diatom, and more Phacus and euglenas, which are types of euglenoids.
I did notice new organisms that appeared in my microaquarium such as another type of diatom, called the Cymbella along with a type of Canobacteria called Anabaena.