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