[leahski]

well, a couple of new points of interest. i'll tell them as i found them.
1) my peppermint shrimp molted! i found his little old shell lying next to a rock (my sister's friends actually thought that THAT was the shrimp! haha)
question: the shell is in kind of an inaccessable area. should i try and pull it out (will it produce too much ammonia?) or just leave it? (will someone eat it?)

2) i have small invertabrate bugs hopping all over my glass and i think they're the bigger specks in my water column. copeopods? i think i've heard that they're good...but why? are they just a good food source? my tubeworms and brittle stars have been going crazy on them!
On this topic, i have many other invert looking bug type things crawling around my rocks...i'm assuming they're good...right?

3) i found flatworms. two (so far) tiny white flatworms cruising their way across my liverock. so i captured them and put them into a plastic baggy for inspection. are all flatworms harmful to a tank? (i kinda think that they're being shot out of my LR filter. did they like hatch or something and are now going to infest my tank? i sure hope not. will someone eat those?

tests still show low levels of nitrate. still in the safe range, but not ideal. this probably means that i also have ammonia present, although i don't have a test for ammonia yet so i don't know levels.