Setting up Aquarium

Procedure

1) Received aquarium with stand and lid. We were given a substance similar to glue to help secure the lid.
2) We placed 3 colored dots on the left hand corner of our aquarium. 

• First dot = Lab Section
• Second dot = Table in which you sit during lab
• Third dot = The seat number you sit in at your table

3) Used pipettes to fill aquarium with water almost to the brim trying to coat the bottom layer with soil.
4) Added two plants into aquarium with water.
5) Placed aquarium under water and observed.
6) Removed aquarium from microscope, installed lid, and placed on stand.

Materials

1) Water - Frenchbroad River, Seven Islands Refuge

• Contained Cladophora sp. alga, Family- Cladophoracea 

2) Plants - 

• Amblestegium sp. 
• Uticularia gibba L.