I looked at more of Mrs. Lohers Pond water, this time I did see creatures swimming in it, so so the copepods might have survived the tank drying out, but there weren't any in the water sample on my slide, or I couldn't find them anyway. But I did see a number of diatoms and some other strange things.
Diatoms:
Plus some things we haven't identified:
We're not sure if this is a bubble or what it is:
We think this may be algae. We're not sure:
I also spent some time looking at fungi we found on a piece of firewood:
We asked people to guess what this was and they guessed things like a shag carpet, the surface of the sun, and the inside of a butternut squash. It is the the roots of a shelf fungus:
I took this picture myself.