Week 1

In this lab we set up a microaquarium in order to study it for the next few weeks. We began by color coding the microaquarium in order to tell ours apart from everyone else's. Using a pipette, we extracted water from the container with water from the Fountain City Duck Pond (Botany 111, 2010). We first extracted water from the bottom of the bowl and pipetted it into the bottom 1/3rd portion of the microaquarium, then from the middle part of the bowl of water into the next 1/3rd of the microaquarium, and finally water from the top layer of the water source into the top 1/3rd of the microaquarium. We placed the microaquarium was placed in its stand and decorated with plants and mosses.

Observations: When viewed under the 10x lens of the microscope, we saw translucent brown bugs crawling around the bottom of the microaquarium, usually on the plants. Not much other activity was noted at this time.

Water source information:
Fountain City Duck Pond. West of Broadway at Cedar Lane. Knox Co. Knoxville TN Full sun exposure. Spring Feed Pond N36 02.087 W83 55.967 963 ft 10/10/2010


Works cited:
http://botany1112010.blogspot.com/