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Good morning everyone, Yesterday I woke up and found my Carpenter wrasse at the bottom of the tank looking weak. I have had this fish for about 5 months now, so he isn’t new. I managed to put him in an isolation box within the tank, but as of this morning he is behaving the same. No other fish...

hello everyone, i am in dire need of helping treat my beloved hingebeak shrimp. all of my water params are normal for a good marine tank (i tested them immediately) and no other tank inhabitants are showing signs of stress. this shrimp, who I named Big Claws as he was my only male for a time...

Hey Reefers- I'm looking to get as much input into this as possible, ideally from all sides! Mods, please help/feel free to post this where it's going to get the most traction if needed! After going through another incredibly sad experience, speaking with some of my fellow reefers who are...

Hello. I have been learning about keeping saltwater aqariums for a bit over a year now, I already have freshwater tanks and have had those for years. I know live rock is important. A local shop in my area is about to move locations so they have live rock on a LARGE sale. The tank I have that...

Hello, I am currently active duty and am having to execute orders from SOCAL to SC in January (great weather for moving fish). I am currently in the process of planning to move my 75 gallon aquarium. I currently house 6 Amazon puffers, 3 gouramis, some random community fish, and an inspector...

Hey guys, I’m looking for some advice on my Joker Torch (Euphyllia glabrescens). I’ve had problems with tissue recession since September and suspected Euphyllia Eating Flatworms (EEFW). I found quite a few egg clusters on the skeleton, so I removed the coral from my display tank and put it into...

Hi! I’ve had copper in my tank for a while now (2.5ppm on Hanna tester) and I’m seeing more and more white spots on many different fish. Despite the concentration being high for many weeks, more spots keep forming. It’s a 75 gallon fowlr tank with sand and live rock. Any advice? The pics show...

Hi, I have a Jebao SOW-3N wavemaker in my 6.6 gallon reef jar and it works great but its lowest output is 500 gph whilst I have a hammer, torch, and Zoa heavy reef jar which likely needs a wavemaker that functions closer to 150 gph. I love the sine function and the random function the wavemaker...

I just got this anemone 2 days ago and he hasn’t attached at all and now seems like he’s just floating around. I just had another anemone die prior and tested my water and all good there. I’m not sure if he’s healthy or if he’s dying? Please help! The tank is only like 2 months old.

Last night i noticed this pinch on my wrasse, it very much looked like a pinch into a raised bump. Now today, the white spot has expanded to a larger area and looks smooth. Im also missing 2 anthias. I cant tell if i have a crab biting then at night or if it is a disease/infection. Any ideas...

Can somebody identify this for me. I was sold it at my LFS and I just wanted some macro algae for my purple tang and my one spot. I put a little in my AIO chamber and some in my display. I don’t want it if it is gonna be a pest or problem. I can manage some but I don’t want it to spike levels or...

I just got a free 180 gallon reef tank and have started moving everything from the old tank including the fish (who are in a cooler right now) to move this one in, but the new tank has two corner overflow boxes built in, where the holes are drilled on each side for a sump tank. My only problem...

Hello everyone, I have a quick question. I’ve been out a Reefing game for quite some time. I used a quick start in my tank & cycled for about a week. I did use live sand a little live rock. I bought some macroalgae today and I purchased two sexy shrimp the little guys… here’s my question. I...

Hello Everyone, For the last few weeks I have been trying to get my protien skimmer tuned and I just can't seem to get it to the point where it is actually pulling anything. I've got the pump set at 3/5 and the gate valve is completely open at the moment. I keep getting crap building up in the...

Please help! I have a 60 gallon AIO with sock filters and a protein skimmer. It has been running for about 7 months now. Over this week I noticed my corals (mixed reef) not doing great- polyps shrunken, staying closed up, etc. so Friday night I decided to test everything. While my main...

I got a Japanese Swallowtail Angel a couple days ago at my LFS and I just noticed it has a little white dot on one of its sides. It doesn't LOOK like ich to me but as a new reefer with no access to a QT tank this is potentially a nightmare scenario. Is it ich, and if it is, what steps can I...

Looking for help on how to deal with this disgusting biofilm. I don’t even want to put my hands in the tank anymore, because when I do (or when I put anything in the tank, for that matter) they come out covered in these disgusting brown specks of stuff. It’s been a problem since around the time...

Emergency. I have lost a couple large colonies of SPS and a massive chalice that I’ve had for years. It seemed to start when I had a large SPS colony break off and when I try, I couldn’t get it to be in the same exact spot, and it slowly started dying off. Then I noticed the chalice started...

Ok, so I’m getting some conflicting information on my research on what to do with this acro. It’s a WWC fruit mix and it’s getting really pale but I’m not seeing any rtn or stn as of now. The lighting where it’s placed is only around 200par at the moment and it’s been lower as the lights have...

Hello, I am seeing this creature that looks almost like spider web but it is moving and it has these rentable like things coming out of the sand. Does anyone know what it might be? Is it a pest?

After some help please!!! Just set up a redsea300xl and I get the water level to stay around 60mm from the overflow and it stays constant until the backbox will drain rapidly, causing the pumps to push out oxygen then will fill back up again, hover around that level until it happens all over...

Hey guys, I’ve got these snails in my tank. I’m having a really hard time trying to get an ID on them as I believe they are a hitchhiker. Also, I have a few of these egg sacks popping up here and there they could be related to these snails. Any help much appreciated, sorry about the bad...

Hey everyone, I'm looking for some advice on lighting for my Waterbox Marine X 110.4 Peninsula. The display dimensions are 47.2" L × 19.7" W × 21.7" H (1200 × 500 × 550 mm). My goal is to keep primarily soft corals (zoas, mushrooms, leathers, etc.), but I'd also like the option to keep some...

So I'm setting up my new 110g tank and asking for a bit of advice as to why it smells a little not to bad but bad enough to notice also a little cloudy maybe milky I put 3 bags of live sand and mixed my own water, I put some old bio blocks in the sump along with a small piece of rock which the...