This bug looks like a millipede!

[philosophicles]

I'm sure this one is quite common, but thought I would post it anyway! It looks like a millipede, that scrapes algea off my glass, and sand etc.

 

[LeslieH1]

This is a polychaete worm, family dorvilleidae, and a micro-grazer as you've noticed.

 

[philosophicles]

Did you see my pic of the spider look bug?

 

[LeslieH1]

The "spider" pic is really much too fuzzy to be able to tell what it is. Don't forget that terrestrial insects do end up in aquariums.

Are you shooting at your highest magnification? Try using a lower power. The higher you go the less depth of field & resolution you'll have. It's better to get a sharper low magnification image & enlarge it with photoshop than to have a fuzzy high mag image.

 

[philosophicles]

Here is the spider video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOjn80thb4k

 

[LeslieH1]

Sure does look like a spider. A quick google search turned up the fact there are marine spiders. Yours looks very different from the web images.
http://www.amonline.net.au/collections/ ... marine.htm

 

[philosophicles]

Thanks, I am going to write to the Professor of Marine Arachnids at the Australian Museum. I don't think my rock is from Australia, but that might interest him more!