Day 1

Today our Botany lab has set up our micro-aquariums that we will be documenting throughout the next several weeks. Two glass slides were use and glued together on 3 sides to create the aquarium. I filled mine with a water sample taken from the flooded crypt at Lyndhurst Cemetary. I put a small piece of liverwort and water lilly in there as food for the micro-organisms we will be studying and filled the bottom of the aquarium with a very small amount of muck gathered from the crypt. During my first observation I saw a few round, zig zagging micro-ogranisms which I haven't identified yet. Next week I will be adding for food to stimulate the growth of the micro-organism community within the aquarium and will begin to identify the organisms within.