Monday, October 22, 2007

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

1 comment:

Botany 111 2008 said...

Neena,

We added two plants to your tank, one is the moss Rhynchostegium serrulatum and the other is an insectivorous plant called Pinguicula sp. You can find location information on both of them at the class http://botany111.blogspot.com