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Hello, Everyone Im having trouble deciding what fish to add to my 30 gallon tank 36”w x 11”d. So far I have a pair of clownfish, pistol shrimp and some hermit crabs. I would love to add a yellow watchman goby, a starfish and a midas blenny. However I feel like I need more movement in the tank...

2 Oc. Clownfish 1 Spotted Coral croucher 1 cleaner shrimp 3-4 hermit crabs Any suggestions for stocking ideas or changes to current plan would be wonderful! I am new to saltwater but have kept multiple freshwater aquariums. Thank you in advance! Edit: any beginner coral suggestions would be...

HELP!!! few days ago i noticed few white spots on my favia (2week old into the tank), some people said to me theses were mesenterial filaments and they were probably a sign of stress or whatever and they would disappear after the polyp wasn’t stressed anymore. it was gone for two days and...

I've been battling hair algae for a long time in my 25 gallon. I have tried everything, lowering nutrients, adding a ton of CUC, manually picking and scrubbing the rock in peroxide and can't seem to beat it. I have read the reviews on brightwell Razor and it seems very mixed... some people say...

I just got a round ray that needed better home conditions currently in a 200ish gallon tank she’s pretty small for now so will try to get a bigger home very shortly anyway the problem is since adding her my snowflake eel will not eat he is too stressed and scared. Also cuz when I try to put the...

Hello, I plan on mounting my GHL Doser and KH Director on the wall or on the inside my stand. However, I'm not sure which method of mounting to go with. I saw this GHL mounting faceplate on SaltwaterAquarium.com which caught my attention. However, I can't seem to find a real photo of someone...

Hey everyone, I’ve had this pistol shrimp and YWG for going on 3 months. A couple weeks ago I stopped seeing my pistol shrimp all together and their burrow slowly withered away until my goby eventually moved to a little cave under a rock else where. I have since covered up their old home but...

Hello, I have a goblin popeye scorpionfish who has been glass surfing since yesterday (with breaks in between) he normally did this behavior only at night sometimes but he has now started to do it during the day as well. He basically goes against the glass swims for like 15 seconds then falls...

Hello everyone, I’m reaching out because I need some help with my 250-gallon (1000 liters) marine aquarium, which I’ve had for about a year now. All my water parameters are stable and within recommended ranges: - **Salinity**: 1.025 - **Nitrate**: 5.3 ppm - **Ammonia**: 0 - **KH**: 8.3 dKH -...

Hey guys got this regal tang about a week ago it’s been doing very well eating and swimming until a few hours before. I upgraded my filter and added the filter floss from the other one and my ammonia is 0 he did eat a bit of food but not as much as usual. Please help it’s a very beautiful fish...

Hello, I recently got an XR15 pro gen6 and I’m working on a template. Right now, I’m using the phx14+ spectrum, but I’m having a bit of trouble deciding between two options. Should I have a peak intensity photoperiod of 2 hours or should I have a sinusoidal period with a peak intensity that...

I have a Prostar 150 it has 150gal of total water volume. 120g display and 30g sump. I have 3 filter socks and a protein skimmer. The tank has 4 fish total 2x orange storm clowns 1x foxface 1x 6 line wrasse 3x emerald crabs I have zero coral but would like to have a LPS dominate tank and maybe...

I recently set up a 65g with a 20g sump, but my clownfish pair is young and small so they’re not really producing any significant amount of ammonia. Someone I work with at my LFS suggested adding a few green chromis so I got three, and being that they aren’t really hardy fish anymore due to...

Hey friends! On October 23 I got what I assume to be a favia from Petco. It was labeled as an Australian coral, I tried to Google image search it. I did a coral dip from tropic marin before adding it into my tank. The first night, he put out some longish feeder tentacles (not sweepers). The...

I recently added a Midas Blenny to my 35g aquarium, with a pair of clown fish. The last Blenny that I had was super peaceful and shy, but this one has been periodically nipping at the clownfish fins and one clownfish has some damage to his back fins now. Anything I can do to help with the...

Hey guys ive been having issues with brown algae but at this point I don’t have idea what I’m dealing with. Please can you help me to identify?

Totally devastated by my latest build. Whatever it is that’s in the water or on my corals is making me lose both SPS and LPS. A little about my system: 2 year old system 100 g total volume, 3x reefled 90 2x coral plus, 2x 460 nm strips with peak par at 320 for 6 hours Skimmer with air from...

I got a pair of clownfish yesterday evening and fed them when they got home. They did not eat, probably because they weren't hungry or just aren't used to the tank. They had been hanging around the sandbed but one of them had been exploring a little bit and going around the tank a little bit...

Hello fellow Reefers! I made a post a few days ago asking for help validating some hitchhiker ID's I made. It didn't garner too much attention, but for the most part I got the answers I was looking for, with one exception (sort of). At first I thought there was some Aptasia in my Acan colony...

First tank and fish. The one clown is doing great but my other guy seems to be struggling. Added 4 days ago. Still gets up and moves around to eat. Added the air stone last night to help his breathing and been adding garlic guard to food to help boost immune system. What do you think is going...

Hello! I noticed this white blobby stuff in my rock cave about 6 months ago, but couldn't find much info on it so I cleaned it out to be safe. It appears its back now though, and after doing some more research it sounds like it could just be sponged/filter feeders? Posting here to get...

Hello! I have been freshwater keeping for a few years, and I have just started cycling my first saltwater aquarium. I know I have a lot to still learn, and it's going to take some time, but I'm ok with that and excited to start reefing! Equipment so far: 40 gallon breeder 40 pounds of live...

Bought my mushroom a few weeks to about a month ago, noticed some weird activity from it acting normal, to not expanding/shriveling, then acting normal. I noticed a purple looking growth going down the side of the rock it’s on for about a week now. I look into my tank tonight to find it...

Hello, I started in this hobby over a year and a half ago and this site along with many others have helped me navigate the reef tank world for all this time with major success and the occasional incident. Finally, I made an account days ago and was going to post a fun thread introducing myself...

I just finally finished setting up my 65g and turned the pump on for the first time. I noticed the flow seemed really loud so I looked in the corner-flow section where the noise was coming from. It turns out that there’s a hole on the underside of the elbow that my loc line is connected to, and...