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Over the last few months I have realized several mistakes I made setting in up my tank. It's a 25 gallon Eclipse system with a bio-wheel, low lighting and 3 to 4 inches of crushed coral on the bottom. If I could start over I probably would change most of that. However, over 4 months of...

Crap. So my flatworm discovered here seems to have brought his friends with him. Now they've eaten all my copepods! In fact, 3 out of 5 times when I look at what I think is a copepod, it turns out to be a tiny flatworm instead. My LFS couldn't tell me anything to get rid of them, so I guess...

I was adding some new rock to my 25 gallon tank and I guess I wasn't as careful as I should have been, because I just noticed a couple of thin scratches on the inside of the tank where I bumped the walls with a rock. They are less than half an inch long. At what point should I be worried about...

Exhibit A is a transparent sort of flat thing with an orangey bump in the middle that doesn't quite stick out of its body. It moves in the direction of the arrows. Is this what a baby snail looks like? Exhibit B is a group of little spore-looking things that are sort of white bumps with hairy...

I asked this in another thread but I don't think anybody noticed. :) Is it a good idea to remove any leftover starter shrimp before adding fish, or should I just leave it there? Will fish try to eat it, and is that a good thing? Thanks for any advice!

I recently set up a 25 gallon eclipse tank. Following the saltwater FAQ that's everywhere on the internet, I got the temperature, specific gravity and ph levels correct, and then let the tank sit for about a week because I was too busy to work on it. Two days ago I bought two damsels to start...