coral advice

My trachyphyllia seem to shrink up more and more by the week. When i first got it, it puffed up like no other on the corner of the tank with very little par around 50-70 par. Then i moved it after 2 weeks to 130-150 par position with similar flow as the previous position. When i moved it i kept...

Hey there i got a trumpet coral today, before i bought it i tested my water and everything checked out but an hour after it being in my tank it shrunk a lot and white slime started coming out 8hrs later it looks like they are starting to erode or something as brown parts are coming on the fleshy...

My corals have been looking rather sad for the past 1-2 weeks. Tank: 6-7 months old, 35 gals May 1: Bacterial Bloom. Cleared up and dropped nitrates to 1. They are typically around 10-12 since I mainly have LPS corals. May 12: 5 gal water change and cleaned all the algae off the back wall for...

Hi all bit of a weird one Coral has been fine all day come home and it looks like somebody’s got it with a pair of scissors please help Also this one has moved around not too sure why

Hello new to the whole reef thing never had a tank and my friend gave me a year old established one that I'm way in over my head any tips tricks ideas things you'd add things you would take out anything at all, I'm all ears! Current set up is a 32 bio cube Media basket Refugium basket Nero 3...

Hi guys I recently had a outbreak of marine ich which unfortunately killed all my fish my tank is now sitting fallow for 47 days but I am just wondering would it be okay for me to add some coral fragments to the tank so that they grow in the mean time, Thanks in advance Dan

I’m new to saltwater, just about to hit my one year mark and I randomly bought this coral at a shop right before they closed for the day and didn’t get a chance to really ask about it. Is it a scoly? I’m just wanting to confirm so I know how to care for it. My tank is still in its ugly phase...

I have purchased a torch coral around a week ago and it appears to be doing fine. does it look healthy ? photos taken under red sea lights at RL90s - 20k spectrum using a camera filter. It is placed around the mid section of the tank also any tips for increasing colouration ? calc - 425...

I’m not sure what corals to place in the circled section (see image) I am using ai hydra 32hd lighting. I currently have a mix of soft and lps.

Hii I’m new here. Mostly looking for advise on growing my corals. I have a 29 gallon tank that I started in November 2019. This is my 2nd go on a saltwater tank. My first attempt was about 7 years ago with a 90 gallon that turned out to be too much for me. This time around is much more...

Hello, I have a few frags and would like the names of them if possible.

yesterday i noticed 2 white spots that weren’t there before, could it be shedding?

Hi there, I have the weirdest thing going on with my hammer coral. I have a gold branching hammer that is growing in a weird way. Its new heads are growing as if they were some wacky wall hammer. One of the heads is growing skeleton, but is only attached to the colony by tissue...

Hello, this for some reason seems to be a tricky one for me. I have 4 Kessil a360x over my 150g mixed reef tank. I’ll attach a pic. I am I’m trying to set it and forget it, but the advice I get varies greatly, right now I’m running it at 75% intensity with 100% blue 100% violet 50% white during...

Hello fellow saltines, I'm looking at a couple corals and need help as to whether they are peaceful. I haven't found much information on them and I'm getting conflicting info. I have a small tank with small fish so I need everyone to play nice with each other and no fish eaters. :-) I currently...

I got this picture from someone looking to trade for some zoas. Is this possibly a gonipora? If so how does one care for them. Never had one before and I need to know everything. Aggression level mainly. If it’s agressive I don’t have room to isolate. Can it go on a frag rack or will it murder...

Hello everyone! Just wanting to introduce myself here, my name is Reichel (Rachel) and I setup my first reef tank (fluval evo 13.5) in Sept. 2021, now I have a clown fish, an orchid dottyback, an emerald crab and a nassarius snail! I have a cabbage leather coral and two green striped mushroom...

So I posted this in SPS and butchered the title. But I am wondering if my new rainbow monti will grow ok on the back wall of my biocube 16 LED? I have it setting on my lower rocks right now so it can adjust to my lighting.

Hey guys. My wife bought me an awesome rainbow monti and I need to know where to place it in my biocube. Will it be ok on the back wall so I can let it encrust everything?

Hey guys I have a 40 gallon reef tank set up and it’s almost out of the cycling stage. I plan on keeping hardy corals in there and adding them once the tank is about 3-6 months old, or at least after the algae bloom stage is over. I am thinking of adding the following fish: - 1x Clownfish: I...

Hi, I'm pretty new to keeping marine aquariums. I've kept freshwater planted tanks before and I thought I'd take a shot at saltwater. I have a 20g Waterbox Cube that's been cycling for a few weeks. I received a shipment from WWC of my first coral frags ever and was pretty excited. I got a...

Hi I know it’s normal for corals to slime when you first get them….. They came yesterday at 2pm uk time and one of them just stopped sliming couple of hours ago.. 24hours later They look white from the slime so would you just leave them to naturally get rid of the white coating or blow it off...

I was wondering if a good hanging filter with a protein skimmer would do well for a 30g frogfish coral tank? I'll be willing to get a different type but this is the easiest option right now. I'm turning the tank from fresh to salt and I already have a small hang on filter that I'm sure wouldn't...

Hi Everyone, I recently had a spin test done on my reef tank, its generally ok parameters but some can definitely use a little boost. My PH is 7.8 , nitrates are 4 , salinity is 1.025 , phos 0.2, Calcium 365, magnesium 1191, Alkalinity 6.1. I purchased the red sea line of calcium, alk and...

I got motor oil in the tank.... I’m gonna try and keep this as short as possible and provide as much info as could be needed to help find a potential solution. I have a 1 year old 30gal half moon, mixed reef with a HOB filter. Roughly 30lbs or more of live rock, and 20lbs of sand maybe more...