These boxes won't go away, I don't know why. Sorry.

Observation 11-12

In my aquarium, I can see where the microscopic creatures died. Their bodies are all over the plant leaves and all within the dirt. I have a few organisms left. A cyclops or so, a few shrimp, and maybe one annelid. The water in my aquarium seems to have slowly decreased over time. It doesn't come up to the near top like it did when I filled it. I don't think all of my smaller organisms actually matured into their larger forms because I don't see any larger ones. I was told that I had a baby cyclops, which I don't think lived past maturity. I am nearly positive most things died.

Observation 11-5

Not much has changed, one of the cyclops died. I found many carcasses of seed shrimp hidden amongst the dirt and plants. The diversity of my aquarium is dwindling down to 3 items:  Seed Shrimp, Annelids, and Cyclops.

This is a Cyclops, a Copepod. I found only two of them.

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This is a creature I found in my aquarium. He is very common and is a Seed Shrimp, or Ostracoda.

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