emergency

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...

Hello just received a Melanurus wrasse and when he was received he was sick and/or injured. He seems to not be able to move his back end. It has been over 24 hours with no signs of progress. Anyone have any recommendations?

I was doing a weekly 10 percent change when one of my orange hairy mushroom corals blew off its rock. I dont have any putty or superglue and it wasnt doing to good for a while. Is it to late, or is there anything i can do?

So i have a japanese dragon eel and an African dragon eel together for about 6 months and they get along no problems at all. The other day I noticed this on his tail. They did knock over a rock the other day and don't know of it just got caught under it or if there's a disease or anything it...

Hello everyone! I woke up this morning to find my eel in my sump. As I was fishing him out I found that his stomach was missing a chunk of skin. I'm currently working to set up a quarantine tank. Does anyone know what could have caused this, and if he can recover? He's pretty small still at...

Hi all, I've had these two clowns for about 2 weeks now in a 20 gallon cube. The cube is about 10 months old. They seemed to be doing great and I Just fed them and they ate well. I turned on a powerhead and within 10 minutes I noticed one of the clowns lying on the sand breathing rapidly. Not...

What happened to my gold hammer? I used about 1.5 ml of aiptasia X in a 13.5 gallon system and it totally spiked the alkalinity. I did two 50% water changes over two days, and it's starting to come out of it's skeleton, but almost all of the polyps have lost their gold and brown in favour of...

What is this weird bubble net?! Turned lights on at night and it seems to be coming out of rock work. It moves with the flow of the water, but stays together. My corals have shrunk up.

I have this peach hammer and i’m not sure if it’s growing more or is dying or becoming bleached, the water parameters are all stable and all my other corals are fine so i’m not sure what it is. a few days ago it used to be all fluffed up in the same spot but now this is happening

If I had more than one polyp of it, then I wouldn't care as much but still be worried, but it is my only polyp and is currently on top of it. What do I do?

I had to move all of my fish to a QT tank and doesed copper power after loosing 3 fish to what I believe is ich. My problem is it's been one day into the treatment and I've noticed my Dragon Goby is getting a white film over his eye and head he was healthy before the move but needed all fish out...

I have had this GSP for almost a month now, and it has been thriving, and beginning to grow more. This morning, one of the sections turned black and seemingly died (I think) out of nowhere. What are the possible reasons, and what is this? This is a temporary setup due to moving in a week and a half

This is new behavior for my clown. He was eating well today, then when it was time for him to sleep, I was noticing new behavior that he wasn’t sleeping like he usually does. After a few hours of keeping an eye, he started going upside down. He rights himself up sometimes, but goes back to being...

What’s happening to him? I just got home and he was sitting at the bottom and he’s been up and down in terms of stress but still on the extremely high end of the spectrum. Breathing is rapid and heavy and colors are showing stress. Ammonia 0ppm Nitrates 3ppm Salinity 1.026 Temp 76.4° (i know...

This seems like a no brainer.. I have two porcupine puffers living together which I have since separated for temporarily as it’s come to such desperate measures pH: 7.8-8.0 Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0-.025 Nitrate: 0-5.00 I’ve never had this issue before and he was eating perfectly fine previously...

Hi All, I've finally gotten my sump running for a 160 gallon tank, but I'm a little concerned with the return pump. The overflow is struggling to keep up, so I am slowing down the flow going out with a valve, but I noticed this morning that the pump feels pretty hot to the touch on the dry side...