Third Observation

This week, I noticed more activity since applying the food pellet. ("Atison's Betta Food" is 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%.) The organisms were more numerous and diverse and some had grown. There was an Ostracod (seed shrimp) lying dead in the top of the organic layer. I also took some pictures of paramecium and other organisms in the utricularia (as seen at the right). This was confirmed in Fig. 10.11 on page 226 (Edmonson 1959.) Their were even more paramecium along the food pellet. Man, were they happy!!!!




I also got a picture of an actinosphaerium (left) growing withing the matrix. Confirmed on pg. 169 (Patterson 1996.)




Another picture (right) shows the paramecium growing next to the food pellet.

There is also a vorticella located in there.






Yet here is and even better picture of a vorticella: confirmed on pg. 292 (Edmonson 1959.)









This is a picture of a philodina rotifer: confirmed on pg. 421 (Edmonson 1959.)