The Arboreal pond experiment gave us helpful insight into what microscopic creatures flourished or perished when dried out and put into cold conditions. To set up this lab, we first took a sample of the arboreal pond mixture and a plant stem. We then viewed through the microscope what what is in the mixture as well as the plant stem. We stored the solution and gave it a week’s time before coming back. When returning, we took a sample from our petri dish and observed it again under a microscope. Ciliates were the first organism we found in our sample. They dominated the sample. My group and I also saw a moderate amount of rotifers, colpoda, and vorticella in our sample. We then took our petri dish with the rest of our sample and let it dry out