After the Paper

04/14/15

The stems of the plants, where they used to be either bright green or light green, are now browning where the leaves are beginning to boom. Now I can see one or two leaves on the ground, where they are dark and shriveled up. I'm pretty sure this means that they have fallen a day or two ago because even though they are clearly no longer vibrant green they are not very brown yet. The big, top leaves are still plastered to the side of the bottle. I think that the moisture has made these leaves stick instead of falling to the ground.

The aquarium part of the the terrarium is very cloudy. The plants have grown to the point where it's impossible to see past them on the bottom half of the bottle. The strings are beginning to grow black.

The weight his week is: 1kg 403g.

Post-Mortem

The plants in the top bottle look similar to the week before. The three plants are still standing, but their leaves are extreme soggy and stuck to the sides of the bottle. One leaf in particular is obviously dead and transparent, just an outline against the bottle. Another leaf has shriveled up into a black husk; it is now hanging by dying threads. One of the plant's stem has a tinge of dark brown, but otherwise the parts of the plants that are not touching the bottle look very healthy. Each stem has small leaves that look relatively healthy, and the ones that do not look very healthy only have a small piece of black or brown. I do not remember seeing these small leaves the week before, which means that the plants are still growing long after the leaves started to decompose.

In the bottom bottle the water is mrs cloudy than the week before, and once again I think this is because  the animals in here have died. Both plants seem to have grown because they cover a vast majority of my line of sight when I try to get a good luck of the bottom terrarium.

Weight is 1 kg 409.3 grams.