The new Kingdom!

OkEy DoKeY...the Kingdom of M.A. seems to be in full swing! :)

When i obsevered it yesterday it was so alive. There were little "animals" buzzing and zooming around just doing their own thing. It was like a little community. I'm glad they're all getting along so well and working off each other. It seems like the stringy-flower plant has much more movement than the long leafy one. The flower plant also have clear pods on them. The pods are gorgeous, they look like brains made out of stained glass, and they are just full of micro organisms bursting with energy.

I also have a little guy in the Kingdom that looks like a little mite, but it's a seed shrimp. I named him George. George doesn't like to be out in the limelight very much so you have to look really hard in the dirt at the bottom of the aquarium to find the little bugger. George is classified as a ostracod, and he gets his name, seed shrimp, from the fact that he looks like a little seed roaming around. He's encased in two opague shells, and has clocklike inner workings. He eats by microfiltering the water for protists, molds, and other microbial delicacies. He likes the bottom of the aquarium because that's where his kind is comfortable. They like to burrow in decaying vegetation, rooted aquatic plants, and soils and sands. He's a cutie! :)