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Mephistopheles

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I've been messing around with the microscopes and MOTIC-cams in my classroom and caught a nice shot of one of the little critters roaming around in my substrate. I've been trying to find it's classification, but no luck so far. Does anyone have any knowlege on this organism? It's the little red wormy thing. They're very active. This picture was taken at a magnification of 25X
 

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Not at all....for every thing you can see in your tank, there are probably 10x as many things you can't see. My boyfriend sorts and identifies the critters in sediment samples, and it can take him all day to go through one core that would fit in a Dixie cup. Lots of little critters in there!
 
I'll send him the pic, but it looks like a larval form, which are notoriously hard to ID. He might be able to get it down to what family it belongs to.
 
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