Week Three

This week we add a drainage straw to the plant level of our biodome. This wiil help to remove some of the water from the soil. We hope this will make the soil better suited for our plants. In the decomposition level there was a small plant starting to grow out of the dirt. However, we added fuit and it got crushed. Our aquatic level had mood on the top of it problumly because of the fuit juices we added. Also our lilly pad died as a result of the fruit juices. We added rock to the aquatic level.

Week 2

Tuesday we rechecked the ecosystem and we had few things going on. First our millipede and ants died, due to lack of food. and oxygen. The soil in the top chamber had compacted and the grass wasn't looking good. The water lily did great and the water was still clear. We added soil to the top and decompose chamber, since it had compressed. We also added fruit juice which it was a mixture of pineapple, peach, strawberry, real fruit juice and kiwi juice hoping to get some fruit flies. We also punched more holes to the top chamber.

Week two

This week we add some fruit soothie to our decomp. hopefully this will draw bugs and fungi. I think we many need to add some kind of drain system to the top level of our dome or plant that live in mash land. hopefull we will be able to draw fruit fly in with the soothie mix.

Week Two

We rechecked our ecosystem today. The worm that we had in the mulch pile died due to an inadequate supply of food. The plant at the top of our system is looking sad so I am going to bring more to class next week. The lilies in the water chamber at the bottom are doing really good and are very low maintenance. We added more dirt to the top and the compost chambers, and rewatered the plant.

Week One

Tonight we began putting our ecosystem together. Starting with the marsh water in the bottom, and then adding our leaves and debrie to the middle in the compost chamber. Finally, in the top, we planted what looked like grass roots.

Week 2

Our ants and millipede died in our ecosystem. The grass was still living but needed more soil added to it. The soil had compacted and exposed some of the roots. The water lillies were still living and seemed to be fine. We added some fruit juice in hope of aquiring some fruit flies and to see if it would help break down the compost. We also added some water to the grass.

Week 1

We created our ecosystem as instructed. We used water from the Big Branch Marsh with two small water lillies. We used mulch and debris to create a compost from the same area. We also used the dirt we got from underneath the leaves and compost. The dirt had ants and one millipede in it. We planted some grass that was aquired on campus.

Week One

This week we build our biodome. One problum we had was that our plant layer on top was not draining very fast. However, I don't believe this to be a problum becausethe soild will not dry out before we can water it again the next week. I don't know how good it will be to add fish to the dome because I think the bottom container may not be big enough or have the amount of plants needed to handle the waste they will produce and can cause them to have a popluted enviroment. I think this project could be interesting but I wish we had more freedom on the design. I also think that we may need to add something under our soil layer to help it drain.

Week 1

Tonight we started with our ecosystem. We have a little of everything. We have water from a pond, mulch, dirt, which it had worms and ants. We also have small weed on the top. So far so good. We will be adding more next week.