Life around Rooting Plants

[Don Schaeffer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP2KBVAx1qs
My friend insists on trying to keep some plants viable by rooting them in water. Inevitably after a few days, the jar becomes infested with goodies for me. In this case, the water quickly filled with colpoda, a ciliate that lives on the stems of plants. I could see the effects of colpoda stirring the water around at high velocity. The bacteria were streaming in a rich biological soup.