coral help

Pretty new to the reef tanking hobby and I have begun purchasing my first corals. This morning I noticed a hermit crab picking at this little red looking coral on the same frag as my mushroom. I didn't think they would bother my corals but I definitely seen it picking at the the red stuff (is...

I’ve had this acan for about two months now with no problems and when I checked my tank this evening I noticed several odd ‘bumps’ on it. They look like little white spots but each ‘spot’ is made up of several little pieces. I’m not quite sure how to describe it. (Will add a picture below it may...

Favorite encrusting coral? Hi R2R community! First time posting a question on R2R. I’m not new to the hobby, been in and out of the hobby for nearly 30 years since I was in middle school, but it’s been about 15 years since I’ve last built a system, and boy have things changed!. Over the last 8...

Hello! So I currently have a 55 gal FOWLR tank. It’s now about 4 months old. Has been cycled for a month or so. I am new to the reef tank hobby and I believe I have a decent handle on maintaining a healthy/happy tank. I’ve definitely made some mistakes in the beginning and have learned so much...

Just purchased this torch coral from my LFS and noticed some of these weird feather like polyps on the bottom of the coral. Are those normal? Or do I need to try and remove those before adding to the tank? thanks!

What is the swollen area on my frogspawn? I have multiple frogspawn in the tank and a couple of them have this swollen area on them?

Hi! So our tank is pretty new but so far has been doing good. We have two small clown fish, a blue tang, a porcupine puffer, and a peony's niger trigger. We also have quite a few corals. The fish have been doing great, but the corals not so much. Please I don't know what's happening or what to...

I bought a Green Pocillopora the other weekend. I dipped in in Coral RX and placed it into my tank in the mid level section. It was doing good but then my snails or hermit crab kept knocking it into the sand bed. I finally glued it into the rock. But it has never really opened up. I would really...

Hi there! First post, bear with me. I’m concerned about my bling bling cyphastrea. It was growing like crazy for a few weeks, then I added a 2nd CURRENT USA ORBIT IC PRO light to my setup, and I think that’s when it started turning slightly white on the edge. Here are the results from the tests...

Hello! I added this finger leather a few weeks ago along with a toadstool leather and Kenya trees. The finger leather is not doing well at all. See pictures below, at times it’s stalk was long as if it were “stretching” towards the light, now it is small and limp. It’s never had much polyp...

I am wondering if Favia’s will do well in sand or if they’re better on rock? I read that that people who place they’re Favia in higher Places eventually lose colour over time, and to not have it in a high flow area. So I put mine in the sand beside a few rocks. But then I read a thread that said...

I have had a duncan coral in my tank since September now, and the past month or so especially it has been completely closed up. Can anyone help me figure out how to encourage it to open back up. It's one of the centerpieces in my tank so it would be awesome to have it back open again. Almost...

Have had my frogspawn for about 4-5 months now and it’s been fine it’s even gained some heads since I got it. I recently noticed this tube type thing stick off from the skeleton. It’s the thing to the left in the first two pictures. It’s hard so my first though was the skeleton was growing but...

Sadly I have to admit that I think I squished my blasto. It was one of my first corals I tried to glue down and after applying too much pressure to the plug the side of my finger felt a small popping. I know I damaged it as it has been looking bad since. Should I let nature take its course? Is...

Hey reefers. I’m looking at how much coral I can keep in my biocube. I currently have three zoa colonies about 15-20 heads a piece, a really small hammer with two heads, a set of candy canes with about 7 heads, one with two heads (bad shape), a set of paly grandis (three small heads) that I just...

Need help with placement of coral we are picking up tomorrow. 1 is sand or flat rocks on sand. Then we go on up to 4 where the most light gets. I don’t have an issue putting coral in the back of the rock structure. I will just post the type of coral rather then full names, if full names would...

Just got home from work and everything was puffy and nice, I’ve been sitting here the whole time and and nothing bothered it or touched it in general now it looks like this! It’s just the one polyp but that one is the biggest one of them all. Do they normally randomly shrink from time to time...

Hello reefers. I posted on here a while back asking about LPS ideas for my 32 gallon biocube. I have trumpets and candy canes (I know they’re probably the same thing but they have a slightly different look to each so I call them differently). I was recommended Acan lords and Leptastrea. I’m...

I just got these kryptonite candy canes a few days ago. They split between the pollops after bringing them home and now the tissue is receding. I’ve moved them higher in the tank where the flow is less and they’re about 8” directly below my light to get some good light. What can I do to help...

I just got this dragon soul torch 5 days ago. I’ve kept it in the same spot on the sand bed getting light to medium flow and lower light. It only really opens up partially and it’s tentacles are slightly transparent. Do I need to put it in more light or flow? Should I try to feed it some reef...

So I have a JBJ45 that's been running for a little over 6 months now and trying to get ideas on corals and placements I can add on with. I'm wanting to add to my reef and honestly pretty open to ideas! I'm planning for the bottom middle to have a clam, just waiting till I really felt...

So I found my torch with what I believe to be brown jelly. I have no idea how it even got in my tank as I haven't added anything in over a month and done two water changes since, but now I'm at a loss on what to do. I have another tank I've been cycling that is probably on week 4 now and I just...

So today my hammer had this clear like film/sac coming out of it and honestly really not sure what it is and haven't seen it before. Lately, it's been kinda upset because I'm still trying to get dosing down in this tank as I'm still learning. I also think it's in the process of splitting as it...

I started my tank in March of 2019. Things have been going well until recently. I've noticed some, not all, of my SPS and LPS corals' tissue start to recede. I thought this could be due to dosing vibrant so I stopped dosing it 4 weeks ago. My issues continued so I bought an ICP test to try to...

Anybody have any ideas what these red spots on my torch are? Not sure if this is normal or not.