Week 3 (November 3rd)

The food pellet seemed to bring my aquarium back to life this week. Last week I saw a lot of dead nematodes in my aquarium, but this week there were some live nematodes around the remnants of the food pellet. Despite this, I did see a lot of the dead nematodes that I saw last week towards the bottom and middle of my aquarium. I also observed a larger organism near the food pellet that I have not seen in the previous weeks. This organism was large enough that I did not need to use the microscope to observe it. However, I did try to observe it through the microscope but it was too fast to be able to observe for a long period of time. It was cylindrical in shape and propelled itself using what appeared to be tiny legs. It kind of resembled a very small shrimp. I was not able to figure out what it was but look forward to my observation next week to see if it has changed or reproduced somehow.