So, a terrible tragedy has occured. As I was placing my MicroAquarium on the micrscop stand, i dropped it, and a lot of the water spilled out! The dirt, plants, and water near the bottom remained inside, but I think killed half of my protist population. You're all invited to the funeral this Sunday. but i refilled the tank with regular water and hopefully there are enough survivors of each species to repopulate the tank.
Anyway, the survivors of this catastrophe were mostly the organisms that reside near the dirt. I saw many new organisms and not many of the ones I saw last week (perhaps because I killed them all). But the new ones included these brownish, long worm-like organisms that moved in a wavy serpentine fashion by expanding and contracting. They seemed unsociable with other protists because every time one of the worm-like organisms and some other organism cme close to eachoter, they would dart away from eachother. At one point, a worm thing and some other protist bumped into eachother and the worm's head contorted into a wide, flat shape and it shot back far away while the other protist scurried away so fast i thought it just disappeared.
The protists I saw last week that were anchored in place but sifted particles were not here anymore. The large, fast, cricket-like ones however were. And they seem larger now than last week. The most popular protist though was this medium/small sized tadpole thing that moved at a medium pace. They were everywhere. That's all for now.
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