post #2

When I went and observed my micro aquarium, I noticed many interesting things which I have never seen before. There were several different kinds of amoebas. One type looked like a blue blob that kind of oozed around and changed its shape.  The other one was a circular organism called Actino sphaerium that had a large amount of prickly hair looking appendages protruding from its body in every direction. The majority of the bacteria I saw were various types of rotifers. One of them was Noleus quadricornis and it was somewhat round. It had one tail/flagella and most of its head was covered in cilia. Another one was Euchlanis macrura and it was very similar to the first rotifer, expect that it had two tails/flagella. One resembled Ritifer citrinus and it was much different from the other two. It was long and slender and had two clumps of cilia at each end of its mouth.