Week 5

Thank you Mr. Greene for pointing out the creature that I thought was a gecko in our terrestrial chamber was really an anole or an polychrotidae. Aside from that misunderstanding, our chamber still looks decent.

We had to water it once this week because the soil was starting to get dry at the bottom and condensing. I believe that although the column is able to water itself by it's own humidity, that alone is not enough because it only kept the top most level of our soil moist while the second bottom of the soil was completely dry. This goes to say that even in the most humid of places, rain is still required to provide for the earth. Another reason for us to water was because the plant was showing signs of dying.

We also added another cricket into the terrestrial chamber because the other crickets are completely out of sight. I have no idea as to whether or not the crickets were eaten by the anole or went underneath the soil, but our anole is still alive and happy (I don't really know about that happy part because it is stuck inside an eco column compared to the outside world).

Our decomposition chamber is looks the same as usual with nothing to report.

For our aquatic section our minnow is still alive and still swimming around. Our water plants are doing fantastic in this section by all the new leafs and the new root taking place. I believe the reason for our minnow still being alive is because it is eating the plants in the aquatic section. I learned from petmart that plants are very important in water life because not only do they provide oxygen for our fishes, filter the water out by using the ammonia that is caused by the dead fishes and the waste produced by the fishes to provide energy for the plaint, and to provide fishes food when there is nothing else they can eat. So I believe our minnow is feasting on the plant for the time being.