begginer

Hey everyone, To start, I am a total beginner. I saw someone building a pico reef jar on Instagram and thought it looked incredible — minimal, bizarre, a little risky, and fascinating. I've never had any saltwater tanks before (only a few easy freshwater ones), but after some more inspiration...

I am setting up my first salt water tank. I've kept previous planted fresh water tanks (but its been about 5 years). My daughter is obsessed with nemo, so I'm using it to get back in to the hobby (this time salt water). My plan is FOWLR saltwater aquarium with 75-gallon tank and a 39-gallon...

Setting Up a 20 Gallon tank and want to put a pair of Storm clown fish and 2 clown gobies. Will a mix of zoa's and hammer coral. Will this set up be ok for a 20 gallon? Hopefully the clownfish have eggs and I will try to hatch them. But if I wanted what else can I put in this tank?

Ok so I run an Ai prime 16HD for 11hrs total including the 2hr ramp up and down. I'm planning on having only soft corals aside from a small bit of Blastomussa wellsi. I was wondering if my lighting was ok because currently my Dendronephthya is open 100% of the lighting cycle but my GSP only...

Hello, my name is SaltwaterSmitty I have start off saying I have never owned a saltwater aquarium before. I currently have two planted freshwater aquariums right now, so I am not completely new to to hobby. I have a friend who has been trying to push me over to edge into the saltwater side of...

Hello everyone, I'm still in the planning stage of my reef tank, and once again, I'm struggling to choose the light. The tank is a 40 breeder, 32" long. I'm kinda on a budget, around 220-280$ and used market here in my country isn't really developed (I might buy something here, on reef2reef...

Hello everyone, I'm back, and this time I'd like to ask if it's possible, to set up a 50 gallon reef tank, for a pair clownfish, 2/3 gobys, blenny and, maybe a royal gramma, softies, maybe some easier lps, like duncans and candy canes, and maybe a BTA? I'd use Fluval AC 110 and Sicce shark...

(This connects to the first post I made on reviving my dad’s old tank) Hello saltwater hobbyists, Coming from my other post on this community, me and my dad found his old, but new led light lying around. It seems to have 165w, but that’s really it, I couldn’t find its full model and what not...

Hello saltwater hobbyists, I’m a young teen in the freshwater hobby (my tank is the last photo) This is my dad’s old tank from about 10 years ago and is still sitting in the living room collecting dust. He had tried to revive it about 2 years ago which was in vain. It’s been an eyesore to look...

I am adding 4 16 oz live copepod jars to my 75-gallon reef tank, it is a month old going through the ugly stage. There is a lot of algae for them to eat but I was wondering if i feed Brightwell Aquatics Reef Blizzard-A will that feed the copepods as well for the future as the algae reduces? It...

5 months in budget friendly 15gallon column tank any suggestions or tips

Hi all sorry for the long post, I have a Cade 1500 S2 that I purchased second-hand from fakebook around a year ago to upgrade from a Waterbox 90.1. For the first 9 or so months I have had no issues with the tank, and transferred the majority of my live coral and corals across to the larger...

System Details: Display: 75 gallon, pre-drilled tank Filtration: Refugium sump setup Lighting: LED system Substrate: Live sand Rockwork: Dry rock aquascape Bacteria: Dosed FritzZyme TurboStart 900 Current Age: 5 days since initial setup The goal is a stable, long-term reef with a focus...

Hello everyone, I'm looking for any recommendations or suggestions for my reef plan. At the moment I have 3 red legged crabs, 3 nassarius snails, 3 trochus snails, and a fire fish. No coral at the moment until my next livestock additions then slowly alternate fish and coral monthly. I'm getting...

Hello everyone! I just added Green star polyp to my tank. I plan to add pulsing xenia as well. I do have a small clownfish in the tank. I have a powerhead for water flow 240GPH. I also got Dr. G's 100% Natural Live Phytoplankton. I ordered an API Reef Master test kit that arrives. I got my...

Hello all, I am fairly new to saltwater tanks and am doing research for setting up a 125 gallon salt tank. I made a stock list and was hoping what people think about it as if it’s good or some changes and such. A little about the tank is I want mostly butterfly fish, with an angel fish and some...

I’m in a predicament on which one I should get I would have to make a custom lid for my nano 10 g and hopefully that would cut down on evaporation . I know I need to get a lid just in case it just hasn’t been very high on my list of things I need . Or I get a ato system off of Amazon and then...

Hi all, I'm new to the hobby. I got a used set up from someone moving cross country a week ago. This included a Fluval 207 filter for a 30 gallon tank. My intention is to eventually have a coral tank with some blue chromis, clowns, a maxima clam, and maybe an anenome in the future. Here's what...

I kinda want to add a flame tail blenny to my tank but i also want to add a starry blenny will these fish get a long? I also have a red firefish in my tank rn and also plan on getting a neon goby should they all be ok together?

Hi all, new to the hobby but I’ve been lurking on this forum for months. I have kept Malawi cichlids for a while and now looking to venture into the SW world! I will be getting the D-D reef pro 1500s eventually when we move house (21st march) but for now I have managed to bag a steal on FB...

Hi all I’ve recently added a extra pack off bio max in with the existing as instructed from my lfs I also added activated carbon back into the tank after taking a break from using it I rinse down everything before putting it into the filter media but since then it has caused a cloudiness in my...

Hi, I have a Fluval evo 13.5 I set it up last march. I had damsels and it was doing fine but the entire tank turned brown. I tried everything but couldn’t get the tank fixed. Forward to December now, and all the fish died and now I have 1 nassarius snail and no fish. After the last fish died the...

I recently got a new clownfish. I’ve had this one for about a month and a half now. It is apart of a pair that I bought locally. When I first purchased the clown it had one red spot under the chin, but it looked like an injury. I thought that it could have been apart of fighting even though I...

Hello I recently set up my first saltwater aquarium and I’m having issues with my flow pump. While cycling the tank my flow pump was blowing the sand around my tank enough that it was causing it to pile up and even have bare glass in some places. When I added my first fish, a pair of clowns...

2 Oc. Clownfish 1 Spotted coral croucher 1 Cleaner shrimp 3-4 hermit crabs Any revisions, ideas, or concerns are greatly appreciated, I am new to saltwater aquariums but I have kept multiple freshwater aquariums. Any suggestions for beginner coral would also be appreciated. Thank you in advance!