Help Knowing What I Found (Pictures Provided and a Movie)

[TheLivingTree]

I found this cool worm at my lake and am wondering what it is. If it helps I found the worm in a gel-like substance with smaller non-moving objects around it.

Worm:










Movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqr0rlI2JBY


I found these inside the gel:



Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

[rjlittlefield]

Sorry for such big pictures. (I guess this forum doesn't re-size images)

Correct. It will resize images that are uploaded to our own photomacrography.net server, but not if the images are hot-linked from another server.

Big images are not so much a problem now as they used to be, since modern browsers can zoom out to display the whole image as needed.

BTW, welcome aboard!

--Rik

[specious_reasons]

Welcome!

It's a nematode, but I'm utterly incapable of narrowing it down beyond that.

I can't identify the creatures in the last picture.

[darwin]

It's a dorylaimida, very difficult group with only a few specialists...