advice needed

Hello all, first post here on R2R! I love this site because it almost always answers any questions I have. So I thought I’d give it a try with questions directing towards my setup. First off I have a 20g long Innovative Marine Lagoon. It’s been up for about a month. I recently upgraded from a...

Hello, ive been following forums on here but just created an account, new to reef tanks but have done freshwater for a few years and have a couple large tanks that do very well. Anyways, I have a 75 gallon regular petco tank that is around 2 months old, more like 7 months old though because i...

Hey all So I have a 40B. I have an opportunity to upgrade to 75 or 125. Problem is I don’t know which. I have one filters rated for 100, plus skimmer and Uv rated for 100 and 200. My 40b is 3 years old, I know transferring to the 75 will be easier but that 125 is tempting. What do y’all think...

Wanting to upgrade and found a deal on a 265g with a sump and stand for $800, that the current owner says requires a reseal. Is that worth a shot? Too much of a risk or hassle? I’ve done a reseal a few times but never over 60g. I assume doing it properly by completely removing all silicone and...

I’ve been struggling with ph for a while now and I couldn’t figure out why because I installed a co2 scrubber on my 90g reef (about 100g of total water volume due to having two sumps, one being a refugium) and it hasn’t done much. However, my family decided to turn the ac off for a day this past...

Yesterday I traded in my magnifica for a long tentacle anemone. I turned off my flow for a couple hours to let him adjust and get settled in the sandbed, but when i turned it back on he got carried away by the current. Then i tried digging a little hole for him to anchor his foot into, and the...

Recently I discovered that I was dosing alk entirely wrong, and I burned some of my corals, and my nem. The thread about it can be seen here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/i-feel-so-bad.1115660/#post-13649248 My BTA seemed to start recovering, and picked an area at the very top of the tank...

Hi everyone, I have a female banded shark that is outgrowing my 250 gallon tank. She also has the company of a male and female epaulette so that is also making the tank a bit smaller. I’ve had her for about 1.5 years, she’s a rock cave lover and is hard to get a photo of but I’m redoing my...

last month I moved my tank to the basement, and therefore my ph dropped as it wasn’t next to an open window the whole time anymore, so I finally went ahead and installed the CO2 scrubber that I’ve had lying around for a year. It worked for about a week, giving between 8.1-8.2, and then dropped...

Hi friends! I have a rimless reef tank and was looking for some advice on what I can do for a lid. I’m considering plexiglass and clamps, but am worried about light filtration for my coral. I’m thinking of trying to make something custom with some fish net mesh. I’ve been brainstorming ideas...

Sorry in advance for this extremely long post. So for some context, I am from India. Saltwater aquariums are not at all popular here, so I have no local lfs that can help me out. I have had 10 years of experience in the fresh water hobby, and am looking to transition into saltwater. I had setup...

Hello everyone, I need some help with my mandarin goby. Find attached a video of him with a few fins that seem to be transparent/white. Any reason for this? If someone can diagnose this as well as help with treatment I would greatly appreciate that There have been no new additions, as well as...

Recently moved my tank so while I had my clowns out of the tank I did the fish bowl method of putting them in a bowl with their new nem. They successfully ended up inside of it and they were interacting with it and everything, but when I put them in the tank again, they only stayed with it for a...

Hi What’s a good light for the refugium.. I’ve been looking at kessil h80 / AI prime or the tunze eco chic…. Cheers

For a while now my black widow bta has been on the back of my rock structure, right beside the overflow in the left corner but near the bottom of the tank. My clowns haven’t really done anything with it, I’ve just been giving them time to figure it out. Yesterday I turned the flow on both my...

Let me know if there’s anything else I should be doing. I have been very slowly setting up a new tank because last year my old one was starting to deteriorate. The new tank has been cycled and I had just completed a fallow period because I used to take my chances and that bit me hard with all...

So I recently moved all my corals into my larger system finally, and turned my nano reef into a macroalgae tank that I’ll be putting dwarf seahorses in. I finished all the macro scaping last week and this was the final product which I’m really satisfied with Pretty quickly the macros began...

55 gallon, all test numbers within range except for consistently high nitrites (1.0). Temperature at 75° F Salinity 1.025 *if you could analyze my actions and let me know what I should/shouldn't have done; I've only had this tank for about 5 months and the learning process is killing me Hey...

I’ve had my male pygmy waspfish for a year in my nano tank, and I just moved him into my 65g when I finally found him a female friend. They definitely seem to be paired up despite sources saying that they don’t actually pair like a clownfish or a seahorse would. But when I put them in together...

Hi Reefers, Let me start by saying I have a 20-gallon long reef tank on my desk, and it was doing great for a while—stable parameters, regular water changes, adding coral, and everything was fantastic. Then I had children, and tank maintenance got away from me. Now, I'm trying to recover what's...

Hello! I have a 32 gallon kit( I will attach picture of what was ordered) I am very brand new and have no experience, advice and knowledge about everything would be greatly appreciated, what I’m really struggling to understand are the chemicals needed and how to get them present. And is live...

Last night I noticed the spots on my skunk clowns, so I spent 3 hours getting them out of the tank and put them in QT and started copper treatment. Now tonight my white tail bristletooth tang has it and it’s much worse than my clowns. The problem is that my QT tank is 10 gallons and I cannot fit...

Where would you place a Hollywood chalice, Aussie lord, and Christmas Favia?

I went away and my skimmer overflowed and spilled over the switch box which of course didn’t have waterproofing except for the switches on the top. They couldn’t bother including just a gasket. The switch block started melting, lucky a fire didn’t start. It looks like the yellow connectors...

Hi I’m in the process of upgrading tank… just got to finish the scape then fill with water… Just discovered a watch better in the tank, rusted a bit etc…. No idea how it got there. Have lost some fish over the last few months but put that down to moving house and new sand bed… Obviously this...