When I first began observing my micro-aquarium today I didn't see much of anything, but as I kept moving around and observing different parts of the aquarium I did begin to see quite a bit. The first organism that I saw was one that I used the charts in the lab to identify as a Didinium, they are vaguely oval shaped creatures with an appendage off their back that looks like a spike. The next creature I saw I thought looked like a kind of crab or some other crustacean and sure enough, when I went to the charts to try and identify it the picture of the Copepod stuck out immediately as what I had seen. Shortly after that I saw another crustacean that I wasn't sure what it was, with the help of the charts I believe it to be an Ostracod. As I continued to observe my aquarium I saw a creature which I thought looked like some kind of spider, but with the help of the charts I now think it was a Crawling Water Beetle. Throughout my observations the creature I saw the most of was the Didinium, followed by the Copepod I saw a few of the Ostracod and only one of what I think was the Crawling Water Beetle.
A few notes on my last post, I believe the slug like creature that I saw was a Spirostomum and the whip-like creature was a Nematode.
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