Week 6

It is really interesting to see how much our ecosystem has changed each week. The most surprising thing this week was that we had a new sprout, with fuzzy spikes on it. Michelle told us that these fuzzy spikes were actually (antelary?) roots. This sprout was was about 3 inches and is most likely the sprout of a pepper. The tallest sprout is completely touching the top of the bottle, and the laves are spreading over the top. Dead leaves are still falling off of this tall plant, and there are 8 leaves covering the top of the bottle. The plants seem healthy, doing well, and receiving enough sunlight and water. There is still a lot of condensation, making it difficult to take pictures. On the bottom half of our ecosystem, our elodea is doing great. This plant grows each week, and has sprouted 2 additional plants off of it. There are 3 snails observed, 2 large snails and 1 baby snail. We still are unable to find any daphnea. We have not spotted our daphnea since our first observation. There are 3 long roots that are dangling from the top of the bottle (soil) and touching the bottom gravel in the water. Our string is eroding from the water as well. The white growth that we found on the elodea from week 4 is not there anymore. This was possibly mold, rootage, or a piece of string.