Today was a sad day when I got to my Microaquarium. Whether by human error, evaporation or some other unfortunate event, half of the water in my project was gone. Meaning, some of the organisms in my aquarium were missing. I did however find my main two organisms, the Cyclops and Midge. Several things had changed since last week but mainly everything was the same as it usually is. For one, there were more Cyclopses since last week and they were much bigger, in fact with my naked eye I could see them moving around in the water. Two, the Midge had obviously gotten much bigger, since it is growing at a great rate ever since I started the project. Three, a majority of my water was missing which is really making me wonder what happened.
Many things have also stayed the same for the most part. Water clarity is still good, sediment is at a low level but still remains, and the algae are alive and well. The one alga has continued to catch and kill organisms and the parasites are still eating away at the dead ones. There is not much else to report since the loss of water sort of threw everything into disarray. I am missing a majority of my smaller organisms and I am thinking the loss of those feeder organisms may slow down the growth process in my aquarium.
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