coral advice

I have this coral here and I noticed it is starting to get a white layer in the middle. I lost one smaller coral before when my tank was not ready for them. This tank has been up for 1 year. Should I be worried? Not familiar with LPS yet and would really appreciate help learning.

Have had this coral in my tank for a few months ( not sure the name it was sold to me as a mushroom coral) and it seemed really happy grown heaps almost always opens up during the day (including today) however just noticed when the lights turned off that it had this going on. Any help would be...

Going to be in a hotel tomorrow, going to Reefapalooza, if I wanted to buy corals on 4/20 and keep them overnight, what’s the best course of action. Should I keep them in the bags, or should I bring a 5 gallon bucket with an aerator or small pump ? Not too far out of Orlando so it is not a far...

Less than a week ago a lfs received a cool Symphillia. It had slight but noticeable recessed edges being sold for 299. I decided to check it out today and it was more recessed around the edges but arguably 3/4 alive. Lfs was willing to sell it for 150 with small store credit possibility if it...

Can anybody help me identify what’s hanging out on this coral in the front? I just got it in. I know the one piece is bubble algae and I should just take it off but what’s the other stuff? Thank you!

I got new corals about three weeks ago. Some of them opened up right away and stayed completely open, one of them opened up at first and then closed up and some of them haven't opened at all. - GSP, Yuma mushroom, utter chaos zoas and captain jerk opened up immediately and look great. - Two...

I got this coral from a friend getting out of the hobby and I’m pretty newish. I’m just trying to ID so I can make sure it gets the best care! Thank you in advance and if you have any pointers on placement, light and flow?

I’ve had him for about 6 weeks, full extending and eating good. But since last week he has remained closed and refuses to open, any tips? And here’s what he looked like before

I bought two anemones, an orange BT and a yellow 2 days ago. I did the same acclimation process for each and added them at the same time. As you can see in the picture the orange BT is going great, as are my other corals in my over a year old tank. The yellow BT won’t open and it may be hard...

Just bought this coral yesterday it’s doing well but I just can’t for the life of me remember the name of it. The receipt just says coral frag so that wasn’t any help.

Hello, I'm kinda new to this hobby and was recommended to add these to my Tank. Unfortunately after observing them again, I saw these clear egg like sacs as shown in the picture. I do plan on dipping them before setting them up in my Tank. Should I be worried and is the dip enough for them to...

I’ve had this trachy for a little over a month. It’s very fluffy. Just wonderinf if its ticked or happy

Hello Reef2Reef Community! As I was cleaning my tank yesterday, I realized that in two months it will be 1 year in this hobby! I was thinking about how much I have learned throughout this experience and how many errors I have made along the way because I was not properly educated. Some of my...

We’re at a crossroads in this hobby. More like, we’ve spent probably $25,000 on equipment and livestock in a 200g system and have very little to show for it. What we want is a tank filled with coral and life, but what we’ve done instead is lit 1,000’s of dollars on fire. It’s been 2-3 years now...

Help I don’t know how to get my phos down I do weekly water changes in my (Max Nano) 6gals at a time. Everything is happy except my acantho this dude was happy for like 3 weeks after I got him but now is throwing a fit with a gaping mouth and won’t eat I’ve posted my parameters and I dose all...

Got given a Duncan coral today for free from my local fish store because it has been closed for a week and hasn’t opened, I’m just wondering if anyone has run into this before, it’s been in my tank for 8 hours now and still no changes. I tried putting in some amino acids and still nothing All...

hey yall am not really sure what’s going on w these zoas, all my other ones are opening up fine. here are my parameters ammo:0.0 nitrate:0.1 nitrite:0.0 phosphate:lower than .1 but not quite 0 (using API phosphate test) i do not test alk,calcium, or mg as this is mainly a softie tank. the zoa...

Hi everyone, I am still fairly new to the hobby and bought my first sps frags. Amongst the feags are a montipora red and Seriatopora Hystrix. They are not doing well. They have been coral bleaching and today I see they look really bad. Can someone please look at the pics and let me know if there...

Hey guys, I’ve recently set up my first saltwater tank and added in my first corals. I’ve got a GSP on its own rock, one rock for zoas to grow on, a Duncan on another rock, and only a forest fire digitata frag on my biggest rock. All are doing great so far (added them in about 3 weeks ago)...

Hey guys... I'm really struggling with my corals.. I've kept soft corals for several years without issue (Kenya Tree, Pulsating Xenia, Hammerheads) but I cannot seem to get things right with SPS or LPS corals.. In the photos below, I have two that really not doing well but I don't know what I...

I've had this Duncan coral for about two weeks, and now I noticed that the bottom of it is darker. Has anyone experienced this problem before? What will be the cause of this? And what should I to do?

Anyone help with this lobo had it for a month and a half and it’s tissue is starting to recede I’ve tried dipping it in reef primer a week ago still no change, and when I attempted to feed the past couple days don’t see a feeding response.Dosing Kalk as well so Alk is elavated ALK=11.82 CA=482...

I bought this bio cube 32 years ago finally set up and going for the last 8 weeks. The person I got it from they switched out the original light to these. Both of them have the dimmers switches and canopy buttons are configured with lights too. Yes I plan to keep corals in future. Do I need a...

I spent quite some time aquascaping with epoxy and stone mix cement — now as I wait for my tank to finish cycling, I want to brainstorm the future design for my reef. I want my reef to feature exclusively soft and LPS corals. Below I have outlined 15 zones that I would love your help to populate...

So I got some encrusting SPS and a plating montipora and a digitata from LFS. they seemed to be opening up in quarantine. The plating montipora i really can't tell if its happy or pist its just there lol. but i did my dip waited 2 days did next dip waited 2 days did another dip x dip waited 2...