Well I am making up for not posting last week, sorry I had a very busy weekend. Starting with last week I noticed that there were no cyclops to be seen, except with the dead one that i found laying at the bottom. There was a slight appearance of Diatoms in my tank quite a varity of them. Diatoms are photosynthetic they are very import in aqutic life, used as a food source by other microorganisms.
Information provided by:http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edy/chromista/bacillariophyta.html
I also noticed that there were lots of Amoebas, which use their cyptoplasm help it catch food and move about. There were also an abundance of Rotifers they are multi-celluar creatures that appear to be transparent. There were also some Protists, Chilomonas I believe was the type I saw living in my aquarium. Again my Fluke was still going strong, he was just sort of hanging out at the bottom of the tank eating on the sediments like always.
Week 5:
I noticed that there were even more Rotifers then before, also it seemed an increase in mulitple Diatoms. It seemed as if they were starting to take over the whole aquarium, for they were found all over the tank(top and bottom). Also there was a sudden abundance of Cyanobacteria which is a type of alge/bacteria hybrid. It seems that along with the Diatoms, it will take over the tank. Hopefully my Fluke will continue to survive. He has thus far, while the Cyclops and other organisms I found died out; while my Fluke holds on in the new dawn of the diatoms and cyanobacteria.
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