Today we observed that many of the new seeds have already sprouted. We took our Fire-bellied toad out when we decided to keep the Common Brown Toad instead. We also dumped about 30 crickets into our ecosystem. We decided since the Salamander and the fish use the water that we probably needed a bigger pond, so we took the old one out and replaced it with a slightly wider and deeper one. Water condenses on the lid of the bio-bubble and then runs down as precipitation. The seal date has been changed to Monday instead of today.

Today we observed that many of our plants are sprouting. We also noticed that now that the mouse is gone the Salamander stays out a lot more. We tested our soil today. It said that the pH was neutral. We also received a visitor from one of our fellow classmates ecosystems. It was a common brown toad. Our ecosystem is doing nicely now that the mouse has been removed. All of our plants are still rooted in the ground and dirt is not slung everywhere. We are going to completely close the ecosystem off tomorrow from what I understand.

Today we came to find our ecosystem in ruins. Turns out Nani (our mouse) destroyed everything! He dug up all of our plants and dumped them into our pond. We know it was the mouse because we watched him do these things ourselves. Finally we decided that maybe a mouse really wasn't a good thing to have in there. So we took the mouse out. We dug under the dirt regaining all of our seeds back that the mouse had placed in his tunnels. We also found the Salamander by digging up our dirt. We replaced all of our seeds and began reconstruction. We are going to seal the Bio-bubble off on Wednesday. Our temperature today was around 70 degrees.

Today we noticed that there was tunnels dug all round our ecosystem. Turns out the mouse had dug a series of tunnels each connecting to the other. The Salamander is nowhere to be seen, burrowed beneath the dirt. We also put a worm inside the bio-bubble the help with the decomposing of dead organisms. We a timer on the light hanging above the ecosystem so that it would come off and on at certain times because photosynthesis has a light and dark cycle. It also seems that either the water from the pond is evaporating or it is being drank. We planted more beans today, so that hopefully we will get more producers growing.

Today the temperature of our bio-dome was around 72 degrees Fahrenheit. We also observed water being evaporated from the little pond and from the bark. It started condensation on the roof of the bio-dome. This is part of the ecosystem's water cycle. We noticed that the Salamander had burrowed further down so that we could not find him easily. We also noticed that one of the grasshoppers was missing a leg. We came to the conclusion that it may have been torn off in his battle to not be eaten. We experimented with the Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen censors today as well. Making sure they work properly. We plan to be soon graphing the data we collect from these as well as

Today, we took one of our fire-bellied toads out of the ecosystem because we went ahead with the mouse idea. So we now have Stitch the Salamander, Lilo the Toad, and Nani the Albino Mouse. We also dumped lots of crickets into the ecosystem. We observed that the Salamander had mysteriously disappeared, we later found him in a hole he had dug. We also placed another Betta Fish in the pond we have hoping this one doesn't jump out. We sprayed down the inside with water and placed a thermometer strip on the bio-bubble. The thermometer told us that it was around 23 degrees inside.

Today, we decided against placing two mice into the bio-bubble and instead we placed to fire-bellied toads inside the bio-bubble. We also got to place our Salamander inside the bio-bubble today as well. We observed that now that we had some form of producer inside the ecosystem that none of our grasshoppers had died. For some reason though, everyone's Betta Fishes, in every habitat that had one, jumped out of the water and died. We have a little tunnel type thing made out of bark for the insects to climb and for the frogs and salamanders to hide under. We also spray the inside down with water everyday hoping to get our water levels just right inside the ecosystem.

Today, we received our Betta Fish and we put it inside the Bio-bubble. We observed that most of our grasshoppers had died probably due to the lack of food. So we also transplanted some spider plants and some other unknown type of plant. Then we went out and caught a couple more grasshoppers, burying the dead ones so that nutrients will be released into the soil inside our ecosystem. We sprayed down the inside making sure everything was nice and damp. In a couple of days we will receive our salamander to put in the bio-bubble.

Today we filled our bio-bubble up with more dirt, and then we planted seeds. Some of the things we planted were lettuce, lima beans, radishes, peas, and many more seeds. We also gathered more insects today, making our population of Pill bugs and grasshoppers increase. We also added bark and mulch into the bio-bubble.

Today, we gathered dirt, mulch, rocks, and a few insects. We have started to put our things into the bio-bubble and it is coming along very nicely. We added rocks to the very bottom and dirt on top of that. Tomorrow we plan to add more dirt and maybe put some insects and bark in the bio-bubble.