Update-Observing our ecocolumns biotic factors under a light and dissecting microscope - boyd kane

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A Something found in our aqua layer

In this post I am going to try view some of our biotic factors under the light microscope. This is the update of the first version of this post.
After seeing that one of the plants in our terra layer was decomposing, I took it out and had a look at it under the strong dissecting microscope. This is a photo of the leaf with fungal hyphae (thin white strands) and the small black dots are the fungal spores, which are sending out the fungal hyphae. also not clear in this picture is a small insect in the top left quarter is a small creamy white larvae which is eating the fungal hyphae. I am going to put the decomposing leaf in the decomp layer.

I looked on google and I couldn't find anything that looked like the creature in the pictures above, but I do not think that it is any form of algae as it isn't green from chlorophyll, so it could possible be just some dirt. Here are some URLs of the places I looked:
http://www.lenntech.com/eutrophication-water-bodies/algae.htm
http://science.jrank.org/pages/205/Algae.html
http://botany.si.edu/projects/algae/classification.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae

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