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My tank is around one month old and all params are good(nitrate 10 ammoni 0 nitrite 0) but I am having this red hair algae/diatoms on my rock is this what that is? Is this Dino? If so how can I remove without taking apart tank as I have new fish and corals in

Howdy this is an aquarium for someone with neither a lot of experience, nor a lot of money. It can be scary getting caught in the confusion of thousands of products and options when starting your first tank. Well, this is your thread friend. Equipment: Tetra 50 Watt Heater Marineland Bio Wheel...

hello, after a year of wanting to start a tank I finally did it! I have a 6.6 gallon long tank that I would like some advice on. What’s a good filter for it and what kind of power head should I use? any advice on equipment would be appreciated. I have a aqueon 500 in there now just to have...

My Nuvo 10 tank

I found a local guy selling corals and I wanted to know if he’s giving me a good deal since I haven’t really bought many corals before. I told him 150 and this is what he said he’ll give me

I’m looking at getting this tank it would be my first set up what’s the pros and cons looking at all points also how many fish can you put in this tank what fish worked best for yall

I'm planning on getting a goby/pistol shrimp pair and I hear they can need slightly more sand. Newbie here. Any thoughts?

List so far: Fish: One or two Ocellaris Clownfish One Royal Gramma One Fire Fish One Yellow Watchman Goby One Tailspot Blenny Willing to lose one or two fish if necessary, for example, I can cut back to only one Clown and/or lose the Blenny. Motile Inverts: One Tuxedo Urchin One Skunk...

My red tuxedo urchin died today and I was hoping to get some ideas as to why. I have had him for two weeks and he was doing good traveling the tank no spine loss. This evening I found his remains. He hadn't shown any signs of sickness no spine loss and was moving around last night. I've not been...

Hi all, I’m Harry, I live in Vancouver, and I’m planning on getting a reef tank soon! Here are the details: I guess I will start with how big it‘s gonna be, it’s a 56g tank with a 13g sump. In regards to filtration, it’s got a skimmer rated for an 80g tank, it’s got 18 ounces of activated...

I started a 15 gallon reef tank about 3 weeks ago just using tap water with a water conditioner and everything is doing fine other then alge and I am aware i need RODI water. If i start doing water changes with RODI will it filter out my tap water ?

Questions at the bottom, here are some tank stats: (If anything is wrong here don't crucify us, we are new and have done the best research we can) So we've had our tank since mid-February: 32.5 Gallon tank Canister filter good for up to 75 gallons 20ish pounds of liverock Fish- in order they...

So I’ve had my tank for about 6 months and finally added some “Beginner” corals. I have 5 new corals in my tank, 3 of which I’m not sure the name. Please help me identify the name of these corals! Thank you.

I’ve had my juvenile clownfish for 4 days now and all my test come out at zero with a ph of 8.2 and but the smaller one seems to have some kind of cloudiness on his fins and his tail seems to bo a bit torn although not positive. They are not patches it’s just some clodiness that I noticed on his...

Hello all I am new to the hobby and had the tank from May with fish and coral which went in July into the tank, I am having issue with my Zoa and green star, the last few weeks they have started to look like the image below any help or suggests would be greatly helpful thanks josh

Any advice on filming at a frag swap?

So I have had this 20g tank running for about 4 months, Since its my first saltwater tank Its been a learning curve with many fails and lessons learnt but thanks to this forum managed to overcome most of them. I am very new with corals and stuff so can someone tell me if they look ok? and the...

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I posted a similar thread a while back, but since then my budget has increased. I am looking for suggestions for lights to go over my reef tank. I am trying to create a mixed reef, but I would like to grow SPS and acros so I know I need a higher powered light source for that. Black box less...

Hey everyone! New to the site as well saltwater! Currently, I have my tank that’s it. 55 gal, bare tank. I am making my own stand and hood, already in the process. My biggest question is about filtration. I’m not going to have the room to run a sump system. Was planning on running a canister...

Hello R2R. I recently posted about beginning my research into starting my first reef aquarium and after receiving a ton of advice I went off on my own and attempted to create a relatively inexpensive setup that would allow me to dive into the hobby. I decided against springing for a sump due to...