Setting up Our Aquarium

We began our term project during lab this week and set up our MicroAquariums.  To begin, we each received the tiny aquarium and chose which water source we will be observing in the coming weeks.  I chose the Holston River, located along John Sevier Hwy under the I-40 bridge with partial shade exposure; to put the water in my aquarium, I used a bulb pipet to extract samples from three different layers in the bowl.  We then put two different plants in the aquariums and observed them under a microscope. Upon my first look into the water, I could see the two plants that I placed in the aquarium, along with several unidentified moving organisms.  They seemed to have mobility that was not only caused by the water in the aquarium, but by their own movements.