On October 14th I set up a micro aquarium form a water source in the Knoxville, Tennessee area. The specifics of the location are soon to come. Basically the procedure was taking a small, micro tank and and adding a bit of the sediment and water from different depths of the sample to ensure that the maximum amounts of organisms would be present in the observations. I then added two different plants to ensure that the organisms in the water were able to have the conditions needed the thrive for the extent of the observation process. More specifically the plants provided oxygen fixation through photosynthesis to sustain the microorganisms. Initially I observed three different types of micro organisms. One looked like a little bubble that moved by a spiral motion. Another looked like a worm wiggling for it's form of motion. And finally the one that seems most interesting to me was a large amount of single-celled organisms that attached themselves to one of the plants in the micro aquarium. The organism was triangular shaped and at the most acute point there was what resembled a string that came from the organism just like a spider dispels it's web. Once the organism got so far away from the plant while still attached by it's "web", it pulled itself in very quickly to bump into the other cells and near the plant it was attached to. I hypothesis that this is the way the organism gets energy but am not certain.

More information is soon to come and I will fill in the gaps that are currently in the post soon. I am excited to continue sharing the natural progress of this microsystem.