emergency

Hi all. I am currently freaking out. I’ve had this 75g tank for 3 years. All my inhabitants have been great. Until recently, I noticed my uv (coraline) and protein skimmer weren’t working properly. (Uv had pump issues, skimmer had calcium buildup) After fixing them, a lot of shtuff went into my...

Honestly just looking for confirmation of what I believe is Ich. Planning on setting up a 40g QT if it is. Should have done it before hand but I’m that impatient guy who’s never had an issue with other fish lol. white spots on his left and another on his right. He did go in recently and was...

For some context I picked this tank up fully set up at reefapalooza this weekend in orlando i’m a little confused on what’s going on with this guy it’s a five gallon fully set up tank from the macro lady i was told since the clowns have permanently flared gills they can live in this tank for the...

Hi I have a 32 gallon bio cube with softies, 2 clown fish, mandarin, and a royal gramma who seems to have ich, I am most worried for my mandarin because of copper based treatment may suffocate him. This is my infected fish:

I have had my tomini tang in the display for roughly 1 month. Although it is not breathing heavily, scratching/flashing, etc, it does seem to have some white spots on its fins. I just noticed the spots today. I've done some research and seen that this could also be fin ray fractures or lympho...

I have just installed the classic 110 int OCTO skimmer I currently have it running with the valve completely open, I read I should leave it like that for 2-4 weeks so It can break in. Is that correct? Should I leave it open for the 2 weeks or do I adjust the valve sooner what should I do what...

Hello everyone, I am new to saltwater. It would be great if you people could help. I got the Clownfish on the 8th of April. Turned on the new skimmer on 12th april. Just after turning on the skimmer it created a lot of lot of microbubbles and it was released in the tank by the return pump. So...

Ny chevron tang isn't looking good any ideas maybe stung by the foxface?

My pink-streaked wrasse decided to jump out of my tank while i was wiping the glass. I couldn't find it for about 5 minutes, until I found it in the back of the cabinet. I have it isolated in a cup at the moment. It makes little jerks to swim from time to time, but is mostly still. Still...

Help I’m thinking about buying a protein skimmer for my 55 gallon tank. I have a sump and I did all the measurements for the skimmer it would fit tight with enough space for the pump to function, and collection cup to be cleaned. but I’m wondering if it’s too much for a 55 gallon tank or if I’m...

Need help on getting a id on this. Found a few on one of my rocks. It almost looks like it has tenticals or sweepers out.

My anemone has been looking really poor since about 2 weeks ago. Its stomach is partially sticking out. I think it may be a bacterial infection, but I don’t have a QT tank and this is a nano so I’m worried it might die and nuke it. Should I remove it from the tank?

My black and white clownfish started tilting, swimming sideways, and face down yesterday afternoon. Her front half and top fin have gone pale and she can no longer right herself like she did yesterday. She doesn't seem to want to eat anymore like she did yesterday. I really need help cause I'm...

Hi, I received some corals and fishes last week. Unfortunately it wasn't a lucky shipping, since animals were stressed because the water temperature in the bags was 16°C. Since some days I noticed the sarco started to lean to the ground. Today I noticed the stem was detached from the head, so I...

Need help I guess overnight my skimmer decided to go haywire and because I have a recirculating co2 scrubber, it sucked water through the media and back into the tank. Ph shot up to 9.6, it is now down to 8.5 after water change and lots of surface agitation. Normally between 8.2-8.3 I’ve...

I don’t know what to do anymore. I feel like I’ve tried almost everything. I have a big problem with cyano, and I can’t get it under control. I’ve tried manual removal and I’m running as much flow as possible without blasting my corals. At the moment, I’m running 10 hours of light, including a...

Howdy, I can't seem to keep my snails alive lol. My tank is matured, 2 years old at this point. When the tank was new, snails had no issues, but once my algae broke out my snails seem to last 2 weeks and then die. When first adding this last batch they were flying all over eating algae and...

My grey angelfish is breathing very heavily and I checked his airway and there’s no sign of blockage from what I can see but is breathing extremely heavy and almost gasping? (The food I feed has carrots) I pulled him out and tried to massage and see if he’d spit anything out.. also had some bad...

Hi everyone, I’m having trouble with persistent nitrites in my small reef tank and could really use some advice from more experienced reefers. Tank setup: 50 L reef tank (running for about 5 months) Started with ~5 kg of CaribSea South Seas synthetic rock and ~1 cm layer of live sand Using...

Hello Has anyone seen the below happen with a walling hammer? Had the hammer about two months - flesh band has grown and it's expanded to 3x thr size when I bought it I performed a water change this eve and all of a sudden the hammer flesh looks like it's bubbling and flaking. Also the left...

I just bought my first RODI system (5 stage brs unit), and after connecting the nut to the black piece seen here to split the water and be able to still use the sink normally, I tested to see how tight it was and im glad i did because the section of tubing leading to the sink started spraying...

Hello, I am looking for help with my McCosker's flasher wrasse. I have had it in the tank for 1 month, and it had been doing great (swimming well, eating). This morning I found it laying on the sand bed and breathing rapidly. When tuning on lights to inspect or take video it started curling up...

4 dead in a row, I suspect a 5th soon. Inhabitants were 2 clown fish added originally. 6 nassiarus snails, 5 cerith, 5 astrea. They were in the tank and did great until I added a mandarin last week (seeded with copepods and was advertised as eating several types of prepared food so wasn't...

Hi guys, I have 2 clowns right now in my tank and one of them (the male) has suddenly started breathing very radidly and is not eating. He ate great yesterday but did not eat today. He ate maybe 1 pellet. I tried spot feeding with both mysis shrimp and pellets but he isn’t interested in it and...

hey all, i’ve been reading for hours on here and believe i’ll get the same answers but i figured it’s worth a shot. all parameters are within normal range. i have the possum wrasse, a tail spot blenny, and now a bicolor dottyback in my 10 gal. the dottyback was added just yesterday. i am...