coral care

If you're thinking of starting out with Acro's my suggestion is a Green Slimer Acropora SPS coral like this one. The Green Slimer Acropora is not as delicate to keep as other Acro's and will tolerate certain differences in water parameter differences. Thanks for checking out my recent and...

Hi all , can you take a look and see if you think the base of my hammer is ok. I noticed tonight that possibly the soft tissue at the base of this coral looks as if it might be tearing . The coral has been in this spot for months without an issue . I also haven’t made any changes to the water...

Hi I really need some input guys What are they what ? How do I feed them and how often ? What are the placement ? What strengthof lighting I have Aquaillumination lights Please help with exact names anyone help

My bubble coral got covered about 2/3 of the way with sand courtesy of my pistol shrimp. I was at work for ~24 hours before I came home to find the problem. I uncovered the coral, and it's looked like the picture below for a week or two now. I attempted to feed it in the picture below, but...

I was fragging my torch but when i cut it the head split into 3 pieces! I immediately glued the pieces back together and this is how it looks like now. I wasnt exactly fragging it i guess. I was trying to remove the hugeeee cement base it was aquacultured on and while doing so it snapped. Heres...

Hey guys and girls of reef2reef, todays question involves the always daunting, but absolutely stunning.... Non-Photosynthetic Coral! Weather it's an LPS such as Tubastrea "Sun coral" and Dendrophyllia, Softies such as Dendronepthya, or Gorgonians, they all have to eat, and all have their own...

Hey R2R I’m new to this reef hobby started up my first tank this fall and I did the cycle and things went great everything is going awesome! Except one of my hammer coral frags I got about 5 days ago won’t open and it seems droopy and sad. It’s strange because all the other frags look great and...

Hi everyone! I won this WWC Crimson Micro Goni coral online. It arrived last week and still doesn't have great polyp extension. Here's the picture of their WYSIWYG before I got it. I attached a picture of what it looks like currently. It gets moderate indirect light as well as moderate flow...

Hi guys, I just wanted to share a an article i found really useful for those interested on keeping Goniopora (flower pot). Enjoy! http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-10/nftt/index.php

I have had this spaghetti leather for about two months now and it has been doing great until the last week. It has retracted all of its polyps and shrunk to 1/3 its normal size. I have checked the water parameters and everything is on par. All the other corals in the tank have had no changes...

All I want to double check what I'm thinking. When looking at coral care if it states the piece needs high light can I assuming it needs to be up high in the aquarium and low light means towards the bottom? Mark

I have recently started using Red Sea's Reef energy and Reef-Roids. What time of the day does everyone feed and how often? Target feeding?

Hey guys looking for some help with some LPS coral I inherited with a new tank... 36 gallon system with a canister filter (seachem phosguard, fresh carbon, seachem nitroguard just added). Candy cane coral is the most affected but spaghetti finger leather and mushrooms looked a little off as...

hello - I am looking for recommendations on a comprehensive book that gives the details on setting up and maintaining corals. I have been raising saltwater fish over ten years. Thanks

So I am new to corals and only have one at the moment, a zoanthid. I am only using the stock LED lights that came with my aquarium kit so I was not going to introduce any corals until upgrading my lighting system at all, but it seems I gave in to try out one that was known for not needing much...

So my tank is about a month old and my clownfish seem to be doing great (they have great color and are very active) also my cleaner shrimp has molted once and he seems to be doing great (moves around the tank a decent amount but loves the middle rock the most). The only thing I think I should do...

ok I tested my calcium on Monday and it was at 390. I tested it today and it was at 410 and I have not put anything in my tank to raise it. I was wondering what would cause it to do that?

I got a bunch of corals from the wwc live sales most of the ones I ordered are doing great but a few, not so much. I'm still fairly new to corals and I have these in a 120 gallon tank I upgraded to this july. the corals I'm posting came in a frag pack so I'm not entirely sure what they are...