November 5

Today I spent some time taking pictures of some of the organisms present in my microaquarium. These photos should give you a much better idea of what some of the organisms I have described truly look like.

Gastrotricha. source: Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, Protazoa to Mollusca by Robert W. Pennak









This organism is identified as a Tachysoma. source: fig 264 and 265 in the book Free Living Freshwater Protazoa by D.J. Patterson









This round green organism is identified as phacus curvicauda, a green algae. source: fig 6 in the book How to Know the Fresh-water Algae by G.W. Prescott

The last photo is what a Rotifer looks like while swimming. The neat impellar like structure will emerge from the right side of this Rotifer when it feeds.