Oscillatoria, a filamentous blue-green alga or cyanobacterium, appeared in mass quantities near the soil and base of the aquarium. It has photosynthentic pigments including phycoacteristic bluish tinge(PattersonP.25. Fig 4).
Coleps, scavenger creature feeding on detritus, but with a preference for the tissue of dead or dying animals, in mass quantities moving around the entirety of the aquarium(PattersonP.162. Fig 376).
Nematodes continue to located themselves near the soil and base of the aquarium. Stenostomium tenuicauda, a yellowish-brown worm-like organism, seen in close proximity to the nematodes, near the soil and base of aquarium(Ward).
Cites:
D.J. Patterson "Freshwater Free-living Protozoa" P.25. Fig 4.
D.J. Patterson "Freshwater Free-living Protozoa" P.162. Fig 376.
Henery B. Ward "Fresh-water Biology" P.336. Fig.15. Copyright, 1918 - F.H. Gilson Company Boston.
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