coral care

I have a Fluval Evo 13.5 gallon and I have been trying different salts to see which one I like the best. I currently am about to try tropic marin which is what the local shop uses and a lot of people like it. A lot of people also like reef crystals and say it works great. I just want something...

Hello all, I just got a Pectinia coral from my LFS about a week ago, when gluing it to the rock, I was unable to use super glue and had to use coral putty when placing/setting the coral, I damaged about half the tips and some of the base. The coral had some bare tips at purchase that the...

Hi friends, i picked up this really sad looking Cynaria at my LFS 3 days ago for 20 bucks. Any advice on keeping it happy and helping it recover? I feed my tank LRS Reef frenzy, and dose Reefenergy AB+ daily and reefroids weekly. Nitrates hover around 10-15 and phosphates are at 0.02.

I've had my aquarium running for around three months now (since the beginning of April), and It's a 48"L x 30"W x 30"H or around 190 gallons. I recently just introduced my first batch of coral frags to the tank (mushroom, ricordea, leather, and GSP) and a green BTA alongside a maroon clownfish...

This green/yellow slime is on one of my coral frags and i don’t what to do. One of the frag’s arm is stunted as shown in the photo and i don’t know what that is caused by. Any help would be great.

So I've had my 10 gallon for about a month now and my pair of clowns look okay so I want to add corals to encourage them to hopefully explore more of the tank since they still like the right side of the tank a lot more. I've heard mixed opinions on torches and hammer which I'm interested in but...

Ok so I know ones SPS and one is LPS but can these two corals coexist on the same rock or will one run the other into the dirt with coral warfare? I have a Mr. Freeze lepto I want to pair on its rock with a cyphastrea but I’m not sure how they would interact:

Anyone who has used cyphastrea as an encruster for your back wall, is it easy to remove when it encroaches on your rock wirk? I am getting a sweetheart cyphastrea soon and want to use it on the bacj wall but don’t want it to grow over my rockwork where it touches the wall and encrust over...

I had to move my bubble and now it’s like this, will it be okay?

Hi everyone, I currently have 2 a360we’s over my 40g breeder.. I was only running one up until recently at about 70 intensity, and now that I have a second one I am wondering what I should have my intensity set to so that I don’t fry my corals. my aquarium currently has softies and lps corals...

Hey folks! bought another coral from the LFS and forgot what it was before I made it home! I know the leathers, just not the other! o_O Can you help ID and offer some advice for care? Looks like one of the branches has opened its polyps, but the others remain closed, not enough flow? Too much...

So I've done well with other euphyllia, frogspawn and torches do great for me. The two hammers I've had, one died from a metals issue with previous sand I had, the other randomly just polyp bailed out on me. I believe this was possibly because a dip in magnesium and being stress by cyano. I've...

I’m a beginner. I think this is an LPS. I can’t find any info about the care of this coral anywhere. It’s on the Pacific East Aquaculture website. Can anyone tell me about it? Where is a good place to find info about corals like this that you get nothing from google or YouTube?

So the other day I took my hammer out to do an iodine dip because he wasn't looking too hot. Been having a bit of a cyano problem and some had grown on it's skeleton. I dipped and basted him with a turkey baster and I guess I hit him too much with the baster because it looks as though part of...

Over the course of my 5 years in the saltwater side of the hobby, I have had my fair share of fights with everything from parasites, to nuisance dinoflagellates/cyano/algae. I can say my current system has been clean and running beautifully for awhile now, and I haven't had a run in with Dino in...

So as of right now, I feed my corals and fish Rod's about 2 days a week, sometimes 3, and Red Sea A + B along with phytoplankton about every other day. Should I be adding in something else or substitute? I use to use Reef Roids, but noticed phosphates and algae problems with that. I just...

Heya yall! I got one heck of a doozie for you! I bought a live rock for some sponge growing on it but I noticed what looks like a coral...or more than one type? I have no idea if the second one is a coral. It looks like it has coral features. Likewise, I'm almost certain this is a coral...

I just want to know the secret. I've had my tank running a year now and I can successfully keep most everything I've tried except zoas and acans. I'm not sure what it is with my zoas but getting them to grow is like pulling teeth. I'll be lucky to get a new polyp every month or so. It's been...

Hey guys, so I have never owned a plate coral, but a local hobbiest is selling some I couldn't pass up. I could use some advice on lighting, flow, and I've read mixed things on putting on rockwork or in the sand. I prefer in the sandbed, my concern is him getting knocked over or moved by my...

What is your opinion on it? Did it work?

Hey reefers. I have a small candy cane frag with two heads. It has coralline algea growing on the plug it’s on. I am just now noticing on the places where the coralline is growing up the stalk the coral tissue is receding. The frag is doing fine and is open otherwise. Is the coralline algea...

Hey guys. I’ve been feeding these kryptonite canes pellets. I think I’ve been feeding them too much. I was feeding them daily. A few days ago they stopped accepting pellets and since yesterday they aren’t opening as wide as usual. Is this normal? Nothing else in the tank is acting strange. Even...

So yesterday came home with some new frags and placed them in the sandbed before lights out. Well I guess at some point my conch knocked over this new birdsnest I got on top of a really nice frogspawn. Now it looks like there's recession and brown spotting where the birdnest had fallen on. Any...

I collect rare torches and last year was sold this awesome piece called “OG Holy Grail”. I was warned the torch was a slow grower which has proven to be true - a year later the single head is nearly 30% larger and show no signs of splitting. The torch originally was a vibrant yellow with blue...

Getting ready to purchase my first corals and right now I’m interested in LPS and Soft. I was curious do you need to dose and keep Calcium, Mag, Phos, and Alk up like you would an LPS tank? And as far as feeding I’m assuming something like Reef Roids would be my go to for these guys correct? Im...