July 10, 2003

 
From such humble beginnings...

This is a five-gallon aquarium full of straw and ditch-water. Sadly, we haven't had as much rain this year, so there weren't the mucky standing pools at the bottom of the hill that served me so well last year. But a good sample nonetheless.

I saw pink paramecium in this stuff! No, no picture...they look just like regular paramecium, but vividly pink. I suspect it's a sort of dye effect from something in the water, like a stain. Note that the whole sample looks pretty reddish.