Week 10

This week is pretty much like last week, there is hardly any changes now that the eco system inside the column have reach a stable point. Aside from the fact that I have a balance eco system, I did added a few things to improve it. This week I watered our eco column twice using the water from the fish tank. I also fed my anole three large crickets this week and it ate all three them without any problems. After the first crickets I notice that our anole changed from a green color to a brownish color for a day and the next day it changed back to it's original green skin color. I think the reason on why the anole changed color is because it ate the the cricket that was a brown color. So the juice from the cricket that it ate sink into its skin from it's digestive track. Another reason why our anole changed color was that it was changing to the the environment in the terrestrial chamber that is composed mainly of soil and a few plants. Since our anole is mainly on the ground, so it changed to a color brown so that it will be able to catch it's prey which is the crickets. By changing it's color, the crickets can be fooled into thinking that there is no predator to get them, so when there is no predator the crickets will have no need to go under the soil and hide from the anole. When the crickets believe that it is safe, the anole is already almost ready to catch and devour the poor cricket. It is interesting to note that once I drop the cricket in front out the anole, the anole waited patiently for the right moment in order to surprise the cricket. While the crickets was getting used to the new environment without recognize that the anole was right behind it, the anole made a quick movement and all was over for the cricket. So the color change was important in that the anole can fool the crickets into believing that there is no problems in it's environment, before it is too late.
The plants are doing well and are still green, I think the plants are slowing down its roots system because I have been watering it about once a week. Before we had a flower glowing in our eco column but now that our anole is moving about, it trampled down our flower, so now we do not have any more flowers. I notice that alge is growing inside the soil section of the terrestrial camber so that means the column is well watered and it has plenty of CO2.
Another thing that I added to the eco column was fruit flies in the decomposition just because it will bring some life in that chamber. Other than that, there is really no change, out plants seems to be at a standstill.
In our aquatic section our minnow is doing well as all the past week. Now that I think about it when I water the eco column, the water runs from the terrestrial camber all the way down to the aquatic section. In this rundown, the water washes down material such as bugs or waste from the upper two sections which the fish might be able to eat. The alge in this section continues to grow at an unstoppable rate.






I just wanted to let you know that my turtle is doing well and I think it is having a good time in my small fish tank.