On Friday October 21, 2011 "ONE" Beta Food Pellet was inserted into each microaquarium. "Atison's Betta Food" made by Ocean Nutrition, Aqua Pet Americas, 3528 West 500 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84104. Ingredients: Fish meal, wheat flower, soy meal, krill meal, minerals, vitamins and preservatives. Analysis: Crude Protein 36%; Crude fat 4.5%; Crude Fiber 3.5%; Moisture 8% and Ash 15%.
Around the food pellet I saw a Vorticella and a stenostomum (flat worm). I also saw a "pod" that was moving and looked like a kaleidoscope, all of a sudden it started shaking and "popped" and the things went everywhere. Dr. McFarland was standing there when it happened and he said that he had never seen that before. And there are many oval shaped amoebas swimming around.
The flat worm was eating the food pellet the whole time and the Vorticella uses little hair like things to move water to bring the food into it.
Vorticella sp. Patterson, D.J. and Hedley, Stewart. "Free-Living Freshwater Protozoa: A Colour Guide." 1996. John Wiley & Sons Inc. pg. 113. Fig. 232
Stenostomum sp. Ward, Henry and Whipple, George. "Fresh-Water Biology." 1918. John Wiley & Sons Inc. pg.336 Fig. 594
Pleurotaenium sp. Forest, Herman Silva. "Handbook of Algae with Special Reference to Tennessee and South East United States." 1954. University of Tennessee Press. pg. 467
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