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Just pull it apart. Any tiny piece that may break off will grow. The thinner you spread it (if you're really patient, strand by strand) on whatever, the nicer it ends up. If you tie it in a clump it will still grow but will just grow into a clumpier clump. Keep checking your grocery store...

Ah, split end tail. Copepod, perhaps. Lots of different kinds of those, too. I only have microscopic ones.

Heterandria formosa, very tiny livebearers. plus they don't even really need a heater, which is good cause then it wouldn't be taking up even more room inside the tank. The only trouble is finding them, they are not usually in stores, but if you have a local aquarium society there is likely...

There are many organisms in any aquarium that aren’t visible to the naked eye. You just happen to have something big enough that you can actually see. Neither your jumpy bugs nor the planaria are parasites. A couple possibilities, look up pics and info: Ostracod – approx 1 mm long...

Have you also been testing KH and GH and have numbers for those?

I've always loved Sam, my CAE. I was very saddened when I first came online and found out how much other people hated them and the problems they had with them. It could just the temperment of the individual fish - like some bettas can be kept in a community tank and others can not. Also read...

Could be on his gills, you wouldn't see the spots.

I have treated a tank with corys, 2 tsp salt per gallon, for 3 weeks, and they were just fine, lively as ever. Long term constant use is where problems arise. girl920, you are correct that although the kisser is the only one with spots, your whole tank is already infected. You are also...

Did you read whole article I pointed to? He explains perfectly why people believe there is spontaneous outbreaks, so I'm not going to repeat what he said clearly and better than I can.

Great film.

I think you're now going to have a hard time totally eradicating the snails. You can keep picking them out and/or try putting in lettuce leaves at night – in the morning, supposedly, they’ll be covered with snails and you can pull that whole thing out. Some people don’t mind snails. But I...

I just set up a 5 gallon betta tank with an AquaClear mini ('20' now I guess)... I put a Maxi-Jet sponge over the intake. You could cut and fit your own sponge and I have done that in another tank, but this just looks nicer. These sponges come with a center X slit down its length, work really...

Ich always present in a tank is a myth. This gentleman used to be on here all the time as "WetmanNY". Brilliant man. Ich Myth info about 2/3 way down. But don't skip the first part. Read and know your enemy. http://www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/health/ich.shtml

' Help the apostrophe find its way home (and I used the proper its here). edited because I spelled apostrophe wrong, LOL!

Can you go here and see if any of the drawings are close (last 3 entries)? http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/pond/index.html

small "globs" of white dots in a clear clump are snail eggs What does the other stuff look like that makes you believe it is a parasite? Crawling little white things? Planaria or something else, maybe but not parasites. Can you give a better description on size, colour, movement, etc.

It would help if people knew where you lived. Or do you mean online?

What kind of filter on the tank? Are you injecting CO2? Is there any water movement at the surface? I find water movement is the answer - you have to balance it if you're injecting CO2 for plants. I'm not so I don't have to worry so much. Nothing waterfallish - I just make sure there's...

Good suggestion. I was making too much at a time and it got ugly, there were scuzzy bits growing in the bottle. Now I just mix up enough to last me a couple weeks but I don't refrigerate, although mine's in the basement and it's cooler down here.

Were those photos from chefkeith's loaches? You might be interested in reading further info he posted re theories, etc. here. It's several pages, read all the way through, from what I remember I think there were some conclusions at the end: http://aquafacts.net/showthread.php?t=1198