5/20 Opening Day

Today at 9:15 A.M. we opened the ecosystem. At one time our ecosystem was thriving, but last week things started to change. Our middle onion died last Monday, and all of the other onions followed. The corn stopped growing, mold grew, and the worms all died. We picked up a few other plants as well. I believe that there were two unknown plants that started to grow. The smell today was very, very horrible. The decaying onions and the mold was almost too much to handle. We believe that the only problem we had was that the Co2 levels began to lower as the worms died. And with four onions, some corn, and two unknowns the Co2 was unable to be equally shared. Mr. Korf said that we had the record for the worst smell. In total our ecosystem was sealed for 22 days. It survived for about 14 days, until it started to decline. This project was very fun, and a good learning experience. If I had the chance to do the project again we would do a better job at balancing the plants and organisms.