advice needed

Hello Everyone, I purchased this Stylophora Coral from my LFS along with some Acrophroa corals this weekend. It has full polyp extension but is still very white. Is this normal for SPS all the other SPS I bought from them is fully colored up and doing great. If it’s not normal what is this a...

hello i have a water box 380 (280gal aquarium) so im looking for advice on what kind of reef lighting yall would recommend for this tank, i would prefer to stay with led's but i understand t5s/hybrid set ups are nice too, I just like the sleek look of radion xr30s with a mount, but I'm trying to...

Hi Everyone, I currently have a 75 Gallon standard aquarium that is somewhat a mixed reef aquarium. I am seeing little to no coral growth and I believe it’s because of my light. On my current setup I have 1 single Current USA light. I can’t find a link to it but is 8 years old at this point...

Hello my Name is Xiyang and ive got a question regarding the lighting Choice. Atm i‘ve got a 20g cube and im searching for a new lighting that would also fit on a Future Upgrade (proably around 35/ 40g Cube). I‘m looking at a Radion XR 15 G6 Pro and at the Reef Flare Pro S. After Reading quite a...

I’ve only cleaned this in tank nano skimmer once since I set up the tank 5 months ago. Ever since cleaning it that one time, algae has been steadily growing in the body of the skimmer, and I can’t get to the inside to clean it. I tried rinsing it with vinegar, but that did nothing. Does anyone...

Hey everyone, looking for some insight for growing chaeto in my sump seems like every time I’ve tried it’s ended up almost like disintegrating. Ive had all my parameters checked multiple times at my LFS, everything came back perfect except my nitrates which are at about 25. Am I doing something...

Hi there, Firstly, I’m new here so…hello! I’m setting up a nano 10-gallon tank and need advice on what to do about my rocks. This will be my third tank, and I’m ecstatic to get things going. Last year, my last aquarium was cut short by my (psycho) now ex-girlfriend. The tank was running for...

My plan is to get a 30-gallon reef started again. Here is the tank I'm thinking of. I wanted something more like 40 gallons that was a long tank that's rimless with low iron glass. I don't plan to have a sump, instead I wanted to have a canister filter with protein skimmer. I wanted to have it...

Hi Tried brushing the algae off the toadstool but it won’t budge…. Would you dip it with RX coral dip or will it get rid of it when it sheds the wax? Been like this 2 week.. Cheers

Hello! It's me again, been a long time since posted here. The old tank I had unfortunately got dismantled since I had to move to an apartment and my parents didn't allow a large aquarium there (dw everyone inside was relocated). Fortunately, after a couple years here I was finally able to set up...

I just set up the red sea reef two days ago and it is going through a crazy amount of the roll and rolling every couple minutes. Want to check if there is something wrong with my set up or anything else. Almost the whole roll in two days

Hey all! I recently upgraded from a 55g to a 120g (4'x2'x2') tank. Been cycling for about a month, ammonia has dropped to zero (or as low as my API test can detect), and I have had my bully damsel transplanted from my 20 gallon FOWLR tank living in the refugium for the last week with no issues...

I'm having low pH issues and it seems to have started after 1 of 2 ways, but I need some professional help figuring this out. I bought an Apex A3 unit mid March and also had Neptune support remotely check things out and all is good. pH before was always hitting the mid 8.2's during the day and...

I am looking at installing the reefmat 1200 that was given to me as a gift in my waterbox 220.6 sump. It has the same sump as the larger frag models and the reef 180. Has anyone gotten this to fit and work with cutting only the sock chamber. Just converted over to a refugium and would love to...

I had a 55 gallon tank with the Ocellaris Pair in it and i eventually upgraded my tank into a 210 gallon tank and later on bought a pair of Maroon clownfish along with their own anemone. The 2 pairs were decently far away from each other in their anemones and the Maroons have started to host...

I've been going to my local fish store for about a year. We've gotten most of the fish and inverts for our 300g from them. The fish are healthy, tanks are clean, and prices are normally reasonable. 300+ 5 star google reviews and 160+ 5 star facebook reviews. A couple weeks ago we were in on...

Hey everyone looking for some info. I recently bought this grafted montipora and noticed its getting some what is very clearly neon blueish color. Is this normal or am i giving it to much light? Par is 220 where its sitting and parameter all look good.(pic 1 and 2 recent, pic 3 when i got it)

Hello everyone, I need some help with my acros. As the lights go on, they look great. Polyps are out and they look healthy. Now as soon as lights start turning off all polyps retract fully. This has happened twice already in the last week but all my other corals look healthy 420 calc 9.0 alk...

Hello, fellow reefers! It's been a while since I did a build, and I've never done a build this large. So, I'd like some feedback and some help planning for this build from some fellow enthusiasts to make sure my T's are crossed and my I's are dotted. Once my plan is set, the build will begin...

Hi there, Attached are some photos of my rock flower anemones. My orange one was a previous resident and was happy and didn't move from his spot. I added the green one on Saturday, close to but not touching the orange one (to make a rock flower garden). Since then, they have both moved closer...

Hi. I’m posting for someone with a reef tank. The tank has a toadstool coral, it’s been in there for a couple of weeks. As soon the toadstool was placed in the tank, within an hour all its polyps had appeared and it was beautiful. However over the last week and a half or two it hasn’t had any of...

I've got a 112 gallon IM reef system sitting in a crate in my living room ready to be set up, 3x3 footprint, and I'm wanting some advice on how many pebbletooth eels I can keep in it realistically. I would ideally like one each of snowflake, skeletor, banded, and chainlink, but I am slightly...

Hey everyone, I've finally decided to get started again after a year of not touching my tank and could use some advice. Around last Thanksgiving while at a tech conference in Vegas, there was a power outage, and my apex for whatever reason didn't kick back on after power returned. I came home...

Hey all, I recently upgraded to a G6 Radion XR15 pro, and I was wondering if it’s would be ok to have the light set for different kelvin throughout the day? What I’d like to do is start the day off at a higher kelvin (probably the full 20k), phase to a lower kelvin over the course of the day...

Hello all, So I’m rather new to reef keeping, and initially I stocked my tank with three damsels at the recommendation of my LFS, which I rehomed shortly after since I wasn’t aware how big and aggressive they’d become. To replace them I got two banggai cardinals and a falco’s hawkfish; I didn’t...