So far, things seem to be going fairly well with our project. We aren't very far into our experiment yet, so we haven't seen any drastic advancements or detrimental effects, which is good. From what we've seen, the euglena looks the way it did when we first viewed it under the microscope. However, one thing we've stumbled across was the water evaporating in the glasses. This wasn't surprising and we expected this to happen, but the issue with that is with the loss of water, we aren't exactly sure how much water we should add in comparison to how much sugar we should add to keep a steady ratio similar to what we had when we started. Even though our sugar measurements weren't exactly the same in our first measurement, they were very similar and if we were to add more water and sugar, we'd run the risk of potentially diluting the sugars, or adding too much sugar causing the euglena to overeat. If I had to predict what was going to happen in our experiment, I would say that the sugars would help speed up the reproduction process of euglena. Although we haven't seen too many drastic changes, there was a larger area of of green in one of the sugars, but the exact one I fail to remember.
This is how we setup our experiment, and we store it under constant light when we aren't present.
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