✅ SOLVED Marine animal, tiny, 8 legged

Ewie33

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Looking at water from bromeliads is interesting.
I have this fast moving, 8 legged, marine tick-looking creature.
It may be a coral gall crab, but there's no coral in sight!
Maybe an underwater spider? 8 legs...
What do you think?
Thank you for taking the time!
Any one know of an appropriate site to identify these tiny marine creatures?
An online photo
female coral gall crab.jpg
My photos below:
 

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Ewie33

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Got it!
This little swimming critter is a water mite.
Thought you 'might' want to know!
 

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Yep. Your critter is a water mite. They eat midge and mosquito eggs and larvae and are "friendly" insects.

There are dozens of species and they are a bioindicator genus of water quality. More species present = better water quality (for "wild" water like lakes and rivers).
 

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