4th+visit+to+Sandys

__Free Journal Entry:__ When we went to our tide pool for the fourth time it looked only a little different. There was less fish, only two species this time we went. As for the algae there was two species this time also, the other times we went there was only one species. There was the old species that we’ve seen when we came before; which was the curly looking algae. The other, new, species looked to me like dead elodea. It was brown, and harry, and everywhere. The say we went there was no sun; it was cloudy and overcast. Which made the water very cold, the wind was blowing hard and the water even looked cold. Kristen also discovered a new species; it was an eel. It was brown with yellowish stripes. Comparing these observations to our last visit we found that the sky was the same. Also, that the water was colder than it was last time and I inferred that it was cooler because it is winter. As I mentioned before there was a different species of elodea. The water looked darker, I think it’s darker because the sun wasn’t out to make it warm. This time that we went we also noticed that the number of fish went down dramatically. We could barely see any! We had to look really hard, and we only saw a total of about 5 or 6. My experiment used the hypothesis “ If there is more fish, there is less algae”. Using the observations from our third visit I noticed that with the fish in comparison to the algae; the algae is severely over-populating the tide pool. A couple visits back; I’d say about the second visit, there was way more fish then there was algae. Now there is more algae then there is fish. This proves my hypothesis of “If there is more fish, there is less algae”.
 * Fourth Visit 12.7.08**

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