Doodle is growing

Tuesday 10-23-07 5:06-6:14pm
Doodle has grown by leaps and bounds!

There is a lot more to see today.

Copapods are everywhere!!! These are in various stages of development. There are some that you can barely see and others that have doubled and tripled in size from last week! the small ones are whirling in a circle and the larger ones are constantly darting about and eating!
Ostrapods (shrimp looking creatures) are also in abundance. these are concentrated in the brown stuff in the bottom.
This week there are more than one color in the algae. There is a little green, a little purple but mostly just brown in the bottom.

OH NO! One of the Ostrapods just attacked Rolf the Rolifer and I'm not sure who will win this battle. Ostrapods are faster and evidently a lot hungerier than the slug looking Rolf.

Streeeetttcch(Spirilla) is a centipede looking organism. He has filli down the lenght of his body. His body is transparent and he is eating the green in the algae. You can see it as it traverses through his system and exits the other end.

All through the ferns are Small Rolifers. They look very young. I hope they aren't waiting on Rolf to come back!!

Holy Toledo!! I see some perfectly round things that look like car tires in my Doodle! They aren't moving and I didn't think I needed to post NO LITTERING signs around!!
Oh, wait those are just air bubbles, my bad!!!
All through out my Doodle are some small whirling dervish type organisms(protists).
I think someone must have slipped them some Sundrop! That is the only way I could move that fast for that period of time.
No, not even Sundrop could help me with that energy!

I'm going back to see Doodle again tomorrow!
Talk to you later,
Lynne

setting up doodle

Doodle was born on October 18,2007.

I created her from water and algae taken from the Pond at the University of Tennessee Hospital. I made sure to get some of the brown stuff from the bottom of the container. I saw some slimey things from the middle and some small oval thi(small oval things) from the TOP.

Once we had all of her watery things I added ferns (Rhynchostegium serrulatum)for effect.

Dr. Mcfarland added something(lost notes on the name) that eats something(same notes) and I closed her up.

I used the microscope to look at her and found some VERRRRY INTERESTING activity going on.

SHE'S ALIVE, SHE'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!

She had lots of movement and critters swimming around!

One of these was shaped like a ladybug but was transparent(ooooooooooo) and had BROWN spots all over it. It also had filli to eat with.

There was also something in there that looked like a squid and had what looked like a street brush to eat with.

Both of these organisms were in the bottom of the environment and seemed to be VERY HUNGRY!!!

Above the brown layer was alot of green strand like stuff(technical term) in the middle.



I plan to visit with her again tomorrow!



Here we GROW again!



Lynne Eldridge