Added to the aquarium on 10/21/2011 was one:
"Atison's Betta Food" pellet made by Ocean Nutrition, Aqua Pet Americas, 3528 West 500 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84104.
Ingredients include: Fish meal, wheat flower, soy meal, krill meal, minerals, vitamins and preservatives.
Analysis: Crude Protein 36%; Crude fat 4.5%; Crude Fiber 3.5%; Moisture 8% and Ash 15%.
This week in the microaquarium there was an explosion of protozoa activity. Some Vorticella were spotted swimming through the water medium mainly around the food pellet and dirt areas along with multiple unknown species including some that looked spider-like, some appearing ovular, some circular, and others miniscule. Growing out of the bottom muck was an incongruous mess of Cyanobacterium (green) which served as a very popular hide out for the protozoa. As to the smallest organisms in the aquarium, it is no longer the Nematoda, as was mentioned in the first blog, but rather tiny single celled ciliates, which appear to move harmoniously in streams and lines, not unlike ants, attracted to the food pellet and Cyanobacterium.
On a more recent note, it appears that the Ostracoda have indeed mastered the art of hide and seek as there were at least five sighted in the aquarium this week. However, this does not explain the disappearance of the rest of our previously double digit population. Further investigation will continue.
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