This is our eco tower on observation day 1. The animals that we originally put in it were two fish, four crickets, and about three worms. As far as we know the worms are still alive, but both of our fish died, and two of our crickets are still living. I think the resaon our worms and crickets are still alive is because the land chamber of the eco tower has plenty of oxygen for them to breath and grasses/soil for them to eat. Our fish simply died because they are gold fish, gold fish never last long, and they are not made for being in a small closed container like our eco tower.
Our bean plants that we planted in the soil are growing exceptionally well. They are very tall and are touching the top of the bottle and their roots are growing halfway down into the water. Also more algae is growing off the algae we put in there. Our plants turned out really well because there is plenty of what plants need inside the eco tower.
Our water is very cloudy now that the fish are dead inside of it. It started out clean and clear and a lovely play pool for little Ping and Pong, but now its a dirty watery graveyard.
One very unpredicted thing that happened to our eco tower is that as our fish are floating belly up, the roots from our bean plants grew through them.
I predict that our bean plants will grow really big on the last day and that the water will be dirtier.
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