Week 4

This week we made a few modification to our eco column. First off we added a gecko to our terrestrial chamber which will hopefully bring some life to that chamber. We also added two crickets so that the gecko would have something to feed on while it is in that chamber. The first thing I notice that the gecko did was hiding itself from us by going down to the ground and hiding behind a few plants. We then added the crickets and they did not have a care in the world on what was going on. Than I notice that the gecko was getting ready for an attack on the poor innocent crickets and within a few seconds the cricket was doom to be the gecko's pray. The second cricket was just sitting around on the earth at first but the next day it manage to dig itself a nice hole underground.
As before our system seems to be watering itself without our aid because of the water cycle, where the water from the aqua chamber moves up into the atmosphere and then it is cooled down by the cooler air outside of the column and becomes water deposits on the side walls. Just by looking at the soil in out terrestrial chamber, you can see that the soil is moist on the top section as to the dryer section near the bottom half of the soil. This is proof that the eco column is watering itself. The roots of our plants are still doing well because of how it is trying to invade the decomposition chamber.
Our decompostition chamber seems to still be the same and so there is no report here.
As for our aqua section, there is still one minnow alive and hopefully doing well. The plants in this section is doing very well because there is new root and the stem is getting much more taller and greener. I like to stay that there is nothing wrong with the water in our eco column just that out minnow will not be able to survive because there is no source of energy for the fish as to how it was in the bigger pond.