Pond Water

While looking at just a single drop of pond water through the microscope I was amazed at how much I could see. Just from a normal eyes view you would never think that there were so many organisms and different forms of life growing and living within such a confined space as well as so many other non living items. I was amazed at the amount of things that had always been present out of all the time I have seen pond water and was just oblivious to all that it involved. During my time viewing the droplet of pond water I was able to identify many living things through the microscope while I was also discovering so many things that I wasn't able to identify. Some of the things that I was able to identify were green algae with no flagella which appeared to be spherical and not attached to the surface with no movement. Some of the other things that I was able to identify within my tiny droplet of pond water was a roundworm. This worm was moved is an "s" formation and in a sort of rapid speed, an ostracod, as well as an odd "thing" we were both unable to identify! This has a long skinny leg with cilia coming from both sides of it. The body was round and way more wide than the only one visible leg.(I would love to learn more about this unique creature I was looking at).
The one thing that I viewed that I found especially interesting was the round worm. A roundworms diet includes small animals both dead and alive or on algae, fungi and bacteria. They tend to live in almost every habitat including seas and freshwater, and land. They typically end to live in-between sediments of the surface of water of swim along the bottom. One interesting fact that I found about these mysterious creatures is that all freshwater roundworms secrete sticky mucous from the tip of their hind end which anchors the worm in place whether it be on a rock or indie an intestine. Spooky!