emergency help

First of all, how do I add an emergency tag? Today, for the first time ever, I trimmed my leather coral with a razor blade. I put new carbon in my reactor before starting. I cut the coral (a sinularia) about 2-3 hours ago. I notice my frogspawn has closed up, but it looks OK. All my fish and...

I had three Banggai cardinals that went through QT, Dr Reef, and have been in my tank for a month now. They were doing good for two weeks when one stopped eating. I made the decision if he was alive the next morning I would buy a QT tank and medicate. Unfortunately he was gone the next morning...

hello everyone, i added this anrmone to my tank about 2 weeks ago and everything was great and one of my clownfish is hosting it. i recently did a water change 2 days ago and ever since then my anemome has been acting up. i had moved from its previous spot and is not opening. it’s still...

Just spotted this in my tank ( im new to saltwater with a 50 litre tank) is it aipitasia? Is it dangerous? Whats the best way to get rid of it? Whats a cheap way to get rid of it? It came in on a purple pin cusion urchin from my LFS. Currently only have bicolor blenny, cardinal fish, 2 hermit...

I recently dosed chemi-clean in my 5 ft 125 and put 13 scoops for a bad cyano outbreak. after 48 hours I noticed that the cyano was entirely unchanged since I dosed it, I don't have any other form of mechanical filtration, no filter sponge or carbon, just a protein skimmer. I put air stones and...

How's is going everyone Today while cleaning my reef tank i found this white coral like growing on my rocks , i have a few torches , zoas and one anenome in my tank , found this very odd and it's in a few spot ! is this good or bad and should i take it out asap ? i've had the tank a little...

How's is going everyone Today while cleaning my reef tank i found this white coral like growing on my rocks , i have a few torches , zoas and one anenome in my tank , found this very odd and it's in a few spot ! is this good or bad and should i take it out asap ? i've had the tank a little...

Hello, I had a disaster these couple of days with my peacock mantis + coral tank with a few corals suddenly dying in my tank which ive had for about 5 months. I got some fantastic advice from another thread (likely low nutrients), however I think I have done something wrong as my ammonia level...

Hello R2R Community, Recently I brought home a new purple tang. I was under the impression that the LFS ran copper for all their stock and it seems that may not have been the case. Regardless, I also never took full precautions on my end prior to this particular fish, so it is also highly...

Hey everyone , my main 40 gallon tank crashed over the weekend due to faulty equipment and I had to setup an emergency tank in order to save some inhabitants. I set up this fluval evo with live rock, cultivated bacteria, live sand, and bio balls from my old tank. In order to get up and running...

Hi all, My corals are dying and quickly…. This past month I have been dealing with a lot of personal issues so I had neglected my tank. That said, my corals were doing fine. A few days ago though all of a sudden my corals weren’t looking so good and closed up.. it’s been three days now and...

I have perfect parameters in my 90 gallon tank only problem I’ve ever had is my nitrates are lower. I did a water change yesterday and changed filter media as I always do every 3 weeks to a month, I wake up this morning and everything is sunken in and sad so I just assume the water change made...

Hey there guys and gals. I’m needing some help on what you guys might think would be my best course of action in trying to save these two clownfish. So here’s the deal. I’m on week 3 of a cycle and I just so happened to come across a post in my local area of someone trying to give away some free...

New Emerald Crab Weird Worm Looking thing. Need help I’m a noob and just got some emerald crabs from LFS. I just finished acclimating them, but I noticed something on one of them. This one guy has something on his back. Should I be concerned? I tried picking it off with tweezer but seems...

Clownfish in QT - treated with Kanaplex for 48 hrs ago but she seems to be getting worse - not eating - parameters 0-0-0 - what do I do?

My copperband butterflyfish has these mouth growths which initially was only one now there are 3 growths around his mouth...making it very difficult for him to eat....i thought it was lymphocystes and it will fall but its been 20 days nothing has happened im worried hell die if he stops eating...

What is this freaking algea? Got a tuxedo that does great in my big tank and he barely touches it. I beleive it to be green turf algea but don’t know how to kill it. Please help. It’s growing so fast it’s going to smother my candy canes and white zombies which are my two best corals.

My prized torch colony that I had inherited from my father recently :(, had two heads suddenly develop BJD yesterday. In morning they were fine, when I checked at night one head was already dead (siphoned it out) and siphoned of the brown jelly in the split head, which is now covered in it...

Hello all, I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction to save a new Goniopora frag I got about 6 days ago. On the first couple of days the polyps were extending and it seemed happy. Now it's completely withdrawn and polyps look like they are peeling off! The flesh looks super...

I recently got into reef tanks, I just got this clownfish 4 days ago, in the past couple days he has started to act different not swimming as usual and started just wanting to sit at the bottom of the tank. I removed him and put him into another tank I have in a breeder as I’m not sure what he...

My stratosphere colony seems to be suffering from an unidentified issue . Some can help identify and treat thanks.

Hello, about a week ago my lionfish had cloudy eyes and looked a stressed, so I went to my LFS and asked for their help. They said it looked like a fungal infection and recommended me Melafix and told me to dose it daily for 6 days and do a 25% water change on the 7th. it is the sixth day and...

Hello all I’ve got a 6-7 month old tank - got a new Anemome - acclimatised for an hour and added - was open for first 12-24 hours, stayed in the same spot, didn’t wonder about. Then it contracted into a ball like shape for the next 48-72 hours and didn’t open up. Now it finally opened up but...

My black oscilaris clown fish, today had white string by his gills on each side that went away in a few hours. His slime coat looks more noticeable and his eyes look a bit dull. He is eating well but his mouth is opening and closing quickly. He also is not in his anemone today and is just...

Greetings reefers, I honestly need desperate help with the tank. I lost all of my fish due to some disease a couple of weeks ago. After deaths. I have done two water changes after that one 50% and another 25%. I have many corals in the tank still. Now all of the sudden I see this massive...