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So a buddy of mine started a reef tank with fish after seeing mine for a while. They made a mistake and somehow something toxic got into the water. He gave me the dying stuff to see if I could save it. Most of the stuff was too far gone and everything died. I kept the corals incase they may be...

I have red and blue leg hermits and just this morning, I saw my hermit crabs eating my Anthias. All was left of the Anthias is it’s bones. When they sleep in my tank they go in the rockworks and so does my Chromises (which are 5 months older). The Anthias and the rest arent sick or anything

Hello everyone. I have had a blue spotted pufferfish in one of my many at home aquariums for about 6 months now. He was in a tank with a baby snowflake eel and a undulate trigger fish. The tank is a 60 gallon. It was my small/ baby fish tank until they got big enough to move up into my 75 and...

Hi so earlier this week i notched my cleaner shrimp just went missing. I saw his molt in the powerhead. But didnt think to much untill i couldnt find him. Owell i was upset but maybe he was soft and got stuck idk but few days later my six line is now gone! No evidence. Im clue loose. My...

Hey guys so i have just lost both of my clowns today. I have had them for about 2,5 months and they have been thriving eating and not showing any signs of sickness at any point until today. So this morning when i got up my smallest clown was laying on the sand breathing heavy, i fed the tank to...

Last night I installed a UV sterilizer. I have a dino outbreak (amphidinium) so low toxicity. This morning I woke up to a dead foxface. Last night he was eating and healthy. Quick little fish. I also saw he had some torn fins. But everything in the tank is pretty peaceful. 2 clowns, neon goby...

My slug I had for the algae died last night, the cleaner shrimp are eating it. Should I fish out the slug’s body or let nature take its corpse?

Hi all, i just ordered my first frags from top shelf aquatics and one of the frags seems like half of it is dead tissue.it’s an evergreen Galatea and It was an “almost WYSIWYG” item so I believe it was in this condition when I purchased it. Should I do something special with this to keep it...

Seems like there's always a bunch of posts on R2R about people who are 'ready to give up' because 'x' coral or fish died... But I think that some amount of failure goes hand in hand with this hobby. Lets talk about our expen$ive fails and the lessons we learned from them...

Hey guys. I’m at loss here and quite heart broken and need some help. I have a 400 litre tank that has been running for 6 month or so. Everything seems to be running smoothly. Tank is a fish only. anyway, I fed my tank this morning with some brine. All occupants ate fine. I come back...

I added an emerald crab (along with a turbo snail who is an expert level hider) 2 days ago to my tank. The crab immediately went under a rock and stayed there for a couple days. Last night after lights out I went back and checked In the hole and it was still there and moving within the hole...

Has anyone ever had a queen anthias fish jumped out of their tank? Right after my weekly weekend water change as I was doing tonight I was cleaning up, looked over at the floor and my fish was on the floor. It's skin was dry so it must have been out of my tank for a couple hours. So I'm just...

Hi all. Our blue hippo tang suddenly died and I’m suspecting it was my fault :( We had a freeze last night and the tank temperature had dropped significantly lower (72 degrees) compared to the 82 we like to keep it at. I put in two smaller heaters equivalent to one larger heater (I’m in the...

So this morning when I turned of the lights for my tank my green star polyps looked fine starting to come out and open up, then I went on with my day doing errands then when I came home I looked at it again and it was completely closed and saw a white spot on it. I didn’t think much of it...

Maybe a copepod? Harmless? A ciliate? Is it harmful? Guessing these are a type of dinoflagellate. Harmful? No idea what this is... And this is my tangs Flesh...after he died. Thinking he may have died from flesh eating worms or flukes.

I got a feather duster from my LFS yesterday. It is not quite 24 hours old. While drip acclimating and throughout the ride home the crown was out. The worm it’s self is not out of the tube and he has looked like this all the time (see picture). I tried spot feeding him this morning and he didn’t...

I bought a pair of clowns from a lfs. I had a qt setup. They seemed to have worms because of stringy poop, so I treated them with focus and metroplex for 10 days. Symptoms left and they seemed happy. I didn’t see a reason to treat copper so I transferred them to the main tank 90 gal with 30 gal...

Here is a photo taken today, from my coworkers tank below. My coworker bought this sun coral from one of our LFS a few weeks ago, they had discounted it because it looked on its way out. There is only one polyp left now. His parameters aren't 100% (although I read that shouldn't matter that much...

I’ve had this tank for about 10 months it is a 20 gallon cube tank and recently I went into the world of sps. I’ve noticed that both of them are bleaching and I was wondering what I can do to reverse it?

Hi! Total newbie here. I cycled my tank for a little over a month with live rock/sand and Microbacter7. My readings last week were at zero. I purchased my first clown on Saturday and he was fine until this morning (Tuesday). He was swimming towards the top of my tank for a bit and then later on...

Need some help figuring out what got my sailfin tang. Day before yesterday it was fine. Eating swimming, doing it’s normal thing. Expanding fin. Happy fish basically. Yesterday it spent its entire day on the sand bed. Barely swimming. No noticeable marks on skin anywhere. I pulled it and put it...

So i have a 20 gallon with about 10 hermits and theyve been doing a great job at cleaning up the frags from algae but all the sudden half of them died and they were only 2 months old. The fish and the corals are doing great, even the super sensitive goni. I tested the water and its 0 ammonia, 0...

I am stumped when it comes to problems with my 10 gallon AIO reef tank. Someone PLEASE help me. I bought the tank used just over a month ago. It came cycled with two snails and two hermit crabs. After two weeks of it running it, I bought an emerald crab and two easy SPS corals. The corals...

Hey, I started a reef tank and did lots of research on corals and I got caught lacking in my fish knowledge. I bought two clownfish around 1”, a black and regular oscilaris, and for some reason I have lost two of the black ones in around a day. The regular oscilaris has been doing great, I...

I just got this birdsnest colony last week. Well I dipped it with Bayer for 15 minutes at 10ml per cup, rinsed through three stages and put it in QT. Well I am looking at it and see something looking at me! I thought it was a stuck hermit crab or snail, so I pull the coral out and put it in a...