coral advice

Hi guys just looking for a bit of guidance and a steer here. I have a Fluval spec marine (basically the Fluval evo 13.5G) but a 16 gal version. All with the stock setup / lighting etc which is It’s been up and running for over 3 months now and is stocked with 2 clowns, 3 hermits and 2 turbo...

Hello! I am a saltwater newbie: been running a fully cycled Fluval Evo for 2 months now. All equipment are stock. The ph has not been super consist, but for the last two weeks it has been a steady 8.3. Ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate have been consistently at 0. Salinity has been steady at...

Can multiple leptastrea be mounted on the same surface and live together? I’m thinking of buying another color if so.

I have had this ric for like a month. I left yesterday to go out of town and came back today and it’s shrunk to half it’s size. Is this normal? It’s 1/3 up the way in my biocube 32 led. Anything I can do to bring it back?

I have several zoa frags whose heads are getting smaller. They aren’t melting and they’re still reproducing fine they’re just smaller. If they’re ok I don’t see it being an issue I like my polyps to be relatively the same size anyway. The zoa in question are my vamps in drag, purple monsters...

I purchased this coral from a local shop thinking it was a cyphastrea (it may not be perhaps but it's something close-ish). Does this look like it's bleaching? Perhaps the light is too strong but the polyps seem to have good coloration and extension but the base tissue looks completely white...

So I just won an acan coral for dirt cheap in an auction online. Is this the dangerous kind of acan (like is it a lord or an enchenata)? I don’t know much about these guys so I’m looking for some help. Can I put this in a tank with my Zoa or will it kill them? If I put it in my 16 biocube led...

I recently received a new coral for free after buying a new Prime 16HD, Trying to figure out exactly what this coral is since I'm new to saltwater. I currently have a EVO 13.5 and have the prime mount 10 inches above water, Any tips for acclimation mode and Lighting programs? I have GSP, ORA...

Hello all, I’m new to reefing and I have started off my journey with a Red Sea Max Nano, all is going very well! I bought my first coral yesterday which is the torch you can see in the photos, I think it’s happy? Anyway, it’s come on this big black square frag plug which doesn’t have a stem...

I bought my first 3 frags a week ago today. The one in the back was the Paly at it’s finest, at least in my tank. At the LFS it fell off the plug during bagging but i took it anyway. After a few days i loosely attached it to some dried epoxy with fishing line. My blue legged hermit crabs had...

Help needed. In the last 10 days I have lost 2 hammers, an octospawn and currently a frogspawn. They have all showed the exact same symptoms. They retract for half a day then look like they pumps start to disintegrate and then polyps bail out. I have not seen any brown jelly. I have...

I recently purchased a aquacultured ORA Vargas Cespitularia and these strange acorn looking things are growing on the frag, I know they’re alive since I’ve occasionally seen them come out and retract

Hey, I recently had a problem in my tank. It’s about 7 weeks old but it was going really well and I couldn’t really tell what had happened. All my corals were open but after i did a 20% water change they all closed up and none have opened back up since then. I thought it might be that one of...

I’ve been struggling with this colony for nearly 3 weeks now. About a month ago, these heads were beginning to split, which they did. But seem to have never recovered, and now I’m worrying about polyp fallout. When I feed about 2 days ago, the bottom head perked back up and looks half normal...

Will Xenia rob a tank of nutrients if allowed to grow out large? I read that in another post on another forum but that sounds like crap to me. Dad had a bunch in his 180 that just disappeared one day. Just trying to make sure these dudes won’t rob my tank of all nutrients and kill my Zoa collection.

I’m about to get some pulsing Xenia that’s loose. How the heck do I attach it to a plug or rock or whatever? Not sure about the size of the frag I’m getting.

Ok so I am not new to reefing. I’ve been doing this like 8 years. I am however new to leather corals. I’ve got a line on a great little toadstool leather frag I’m picking up Thursday. My question is do these dudes sting other corals? And what about the toxin they release into the water? Do I...

So I just watched the tidal gardens video on Duncan coral and their Duncan’s polyps were al stretched out and flowy like a torch coral. Does anyone know why mine looks like little stubs? Or how to make it look more opened up?

Hello I am new to the hobby i have a fluval evo 13.5 it has been running for 7 weeks i was wondering what types of testing methods incan use for the water and what i am aiming for to grow sps ect? I have attached a few pics of my current tank.

Hello I am looking to set up my fluval evo with a coral garden, i am more interested in corals than fish i owned a planted tropical tank a few years back and with the extra time on lockdown have decide to set up sat water nano tank. I will post pics of thank now 8 weeks after setting up . I...

Hello hello.. I've decided to take a stab at some montis recently, but im having some trouble. I added these two frags on Dec. 30th and they looked great. Now, the flesh is lightening up quite a bit, but the polyps are still extending nicely but the color is dull. Any help/tips would be...

One of my Zoa colonies won’t close not for some reason. I’ve blown food on them and touched a little with a sea squirt and they won’t close. They look like small umbrellas. Is this cause for concern?

So I’ve got a biocube 32 led coming after my old one cracked. I ordered two frag rocks that hold three plugs each to make zoa gardens. I want to know about this possible combination for the two rocks. I plan to make one bam bam/Rasta/GB packers+Utter chaos (combo plug). The second I plan to make...

Are the ceramic zoa frag stations safe for my reef and my Zoa? I’m thinking of getting two smaller ones so that my Zoa can grow out to big colonies and create sort of a small zoa garden.

Help, I bought too many frags during the JFox Sale live sale last week. The long story, please feel free to skip this part and go straight to the coral section- I upgraded from a 20g AOI to a used RSR 170 a few weeks ago. Cycled the tank in a few days using rock and media from the old tank...