advice please

Hello everyone, in one of my threads about cycling, someone said I could cycle my rocks in a bucket before I have my tank complete, but I can't find any info on how to do it. The tank I'm planning would get started in late august/september, but I wanted to speed up the maturing process (I know...

Hello everyone! First post and first salt water tank (have some freshwater experience both tanks and large pond) I went with the hello reef kit for the convenience but it also helped with the spouse as well. My question to everyone is how often do you scrape your back glass? Can I put the rock...

Hey everyone, I was cleaning my orbit today and noticed what I believe to be an exposed cable. Do you guys think I’d be able to use some putty over the exposed section to cover the wire?

I'm setting up a tank for a client and I bought a canister filter for it. My only question would be when the tank is fully set up how do you top off the tank properly without endangering the tank inhabitants?

Hi What’s a good glue to join the aquascape and make it look like there no joints.. Will be using white rocks this time and want to do a better job than last time. Needs to be available in uk. Are you using putty for the main hold and glue and crushed rocks to hide it? Cheers

What is this freaking algea? Got a tuxedo that does great in my big tank and he barely touches it. I beleive it to be green turf algea but don’t know how to kill it. Please help. It’s growing so fast it’s going to smother my candy canes and white zombies which are my two best corals.

This may sound dumb but today I was looking at my tank before I clean it and I see something I haven’t seen in my tank. I’m no saltwater expert but it looks like a baby star fish. I got the best photos I could but he or she is tiny. I never put any star fish in my tank. So it had too come in a...

Hey guys, I’ve been away from the hobby for quite some time(10 years) but am eager to get back into it. I purchased a 60g breeder as it fits my space perfect and it’s a big enough platform to have some fun with it. Much has changed in the past 10 years that I’m looking for some advice on a few...

I have a 30 gallon setup that will eventually go into a 150 gallon next year. I have a basic ni crew light, a heater, a fluval canister filter (no sump) a hang on back oase protein skimmer, a fluval uv light that connects too my filter, a auto top of system, auto feeder, 2 wave makers, carib sea...

Spent around 6 weeks cycling the tank and just added the clowns yesterday and they seem to be doing great and took to the tank almost right away. Whats else is in there is: 5 blue leg hermits; 2 trochus snails; 1 green star polyp coral. Everything seems to be going really good on day 2 so far...

Hey all! Looking for some advice here as I haven't really found consistent answers in other threads I've been checking out. Today is May 15 and by the end of June I will be moving to a new place. I'm taking this opportunity to upgrade my tank and have some questions about the process and...

Hi all, after years of looking in from the outside I’m finally in a place financially where I feel comfortable jumping into reef keeping. There’s only one issue and that is that there is a high probability that I will be moving in June of 2025. My question: Is it worth buying all of the...

Hi, I hope you are all having a fantastic day! I just purchased this beautiful Hammer/Frogspawn coral that has 5 of them attached to 1 frag! Incredible! After acclimated, I pit him in this corner and was hoping to seek the advice about the flow, too much, too little, or just right? I have...

Hello, I have always been using api testers and then upgraded to salifert. But I want to get a phosphate Hannah checkers. But on BRS they have 3 kind which are phosphate ultra low range PPM then the. Phosphate low range colorimeter, and the last one phosphorus ultra low range. I want to know...

Hey Folks, I need some experienced advice here. So before I start, my system is 240 G but spread across four units - a full-blown 40G refugium (also naughty fish habitat), two displays 1 - 150 and a second 55, and a sump. Everything is growing and happy. I have been thinking of upgrading and...

I am new to the reef hobby but have been planning on a reef aquarium for many years. I started building a very large aquarium years ago but needed to move on (literally). I now realize that size tank would have been ridiculously impossible to keep up with… let alone afford! I am ready to...

I mocked everything up and liked the look of it, the tank had water in the tank already so when I put the rocks in, and then the sand. It was Super cloudy, so I couldn't see the end result until the next day when the water cleared up. In the picture it's still a little cloudy, only because i...

Hey guys so I’ve had this CC for about a month now and I realized that the mouth part looks like it’s sinking a lot. Is this a problem? If so how do I deal with it? I think there’s some skeleton starting to show as well

Some clove polyps hitchhiked into my tank somehow. They are isolated to a small are about the size of a half dollar on a movable top rock. I have contulinously removed them by removing the rock and brushing them off with a toothbrush destroying the polyps under running water. I don’t do this in...

Calling all Copepod culturing experts! I have done some research and I want to start culturing copepods, not only to feed my fish but also just to challenge myself and try something new that won’t break the bank. I want to culture them from the beginning so including culturing phytoplankton by...

Hi, I am new here. I am trying to get started with a fresh water tank but only looking to do real plants. I will be getting a 20 or 25 gallon tank. Any help would be appreciated. I am going to have a beta & shrimp I do know that. Need help with also tank mate ideas. Any help anyone could give...

Already added: 2x Baby ocellarus clownfish 1x Skunk cleaner shrimp 5x nassarius snails 2x cheeky hitchhiker porcelain crabs 1x turbo snail 1x small BTA Fish plans: I still need help deciding what other small fish I should add seeing as I removed the Yasha hase goby from the list because I...

Just wondering if this is the correct amount of tissue on my torches skeleton or if it is experiencing tissue recession. It’s fully open and happy in the daylight. It’s slowly split from one head to around 5 now. Does the tissue look like it thins out as new heads grow? Photo in blues and...

This is an urgent emergency there are tiny saltwater ghost shrimp and I cant go back to let them free for a while, I need to know how to keep them alive and raise them. I have not found anything on the web about what to feed new saltwater ghost shrimp, it is all about freshwater ghost shrimp. I...

My dad just got back from florida with around 5-6 lbs of Gracilia Marco algea. If I quarantine this stuff and only use a small piece is it ok to use in my reef tanks and to pass along to friends? I’ve never taken anything from the ocean before.