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Sooo I believe my lights are coming on backwards . Ramps up blue and at the end of the day ramps down yellow/whites ? Just purchased the “Cetus 2ss Twins” by “HM electronics” About a month ago, they have an easy mode where you can set it to Hawaii, Great Barrier Reef, etc.. but the days are...

Hi guys, i am new to r2r sorry if i am posting this into wrong thread. MY Red Digita acropora is getting white day by day. Today it is whiter than always but it has a few green and red spots on it. What should i do to save it or should i remove from the tank?

I’m about 2 weeks in to my cycle that started by dosing 1ppm ammonium chloride and used Dr tim’s one and only bacteria. when ammonia dropped to 0.25 each time i redosed ammonia waiting until it got broken down fully in 24 hours. My nitrite started to rise on day 2 and continued to (my salifert...

Hey! Tried to find a post on this but couldn’t find anything — more LPS questions from me. These wellso/Trachy are right next to several that are super happy. Per earlier post about meat corals I have not been feeding these corals adequately, so I am starting to do that now. What would you...

Hello guys, New Reefer here. Please help me identify these. Worth keeping? Will they spread like crazy? Thank you all?

Hello everyone My Duncan has been closed up for about two weeks now, and I’m starting to get worried. One of the two polyps is so far into the skeleton that I don’t know if it is even still there! I started this tank around 5 months ago and got the have had the coral for 3. No problems until...

Hi All, Posting this here I have a RSM130 and everything on it is all doing well touch wood. All happy inhabitants good parameters and I am in control of my parameters. I am right around the 2-3 week mark from initial startup. Have one thing that’s more of a nuisance it’s this chalky white...

Hi, I have this curly strange looking thing that just grew over night Any idea? Please help! Should I remove it?

So i Got this trachy about a month ago, and today it showed bleaching signs on the upper parts of the coral. All other corals Seem happy (trachys, scolys, favias, montis, torches, hammers, acros) . Any advice What to do?

Hello all, I just setup a small 12 gallon AIO that I am going to use to keep and grow out frags and small corals. I am planning to keep some live sand as well as a little rumble of live rock on the sand and then 4 frag racks on the stand covering above the sand. My question is would it be ok and...

Hello everyone! I’ve been having issues with my protein skimmer that I cant find anywhere online. First off, I'm not collecting any skim. The foam only moves up about 2 inches from the water line (pictured below) I clean it out regularly but that doesn't seem to be the issue.. I’ve had the tank...

Hello all! Been reefing for a super long time and always had nice tanks but no real way to take quality photos of them other than using my iPhone 13 Pro with an orange lens finally I decided to upgrade to a DSLR camera. I got a rebel T6 from Canon and realized it wasn’t just quite doing the job...

Hi, I’m very new to reefs I got a 5 gallon nano tank for my room with a nice light. * I am sorry to say what I’m about to say*. Setting up the tank I used filtered water from my sink and mixed it with instant ocean and added it to the tank. I saw it said that on the back of the instant ocean...

Can anyone help identify what is taking over my tank? I don’t have access to a microscope to check it accurately. Parameters: Salinity 1.026 Temp 78f Po4 0 (Hanna ulr) No3 0.25ppm (red sea pro) Alk 8.7 Cal 440 Mag 1340 I cannot get detectable nutrients (apart from some nitrates when I feed...

Hello everyone, I just set up a 75 gallon tank and currently have three pajama fish in there that seem to be doing good and eating fine. I also have a anthias in my quarantine tank that I will be adding within a week or two my local fish store has a really nice small yellow wrasse. That is very...

Hey! Anybody know what’s happening and why all these fish stay in the corner. So before the clown was on the other side of the tank no he’s migrated to where these catfish (not sure exactly what they are). Those two always stay in the corner and never swim around in the tank the clown hangs out...

Clown fish is acting strange not moving really at the bottom of the tank seems like he lost all colour in his top fin all water parameters are fine noticed this when I was going to feed them turned the light on and place my flake into the tank he start swimming on the bottom of the substrate...

Hi all. I have had this clown exactly a year now. It's had this spot on its side since shortly after I got it but it's always been quite small. In the last few weeks it's gotten to be quite large and I'm not sure what it could be. It's never caused problems but lately he's been having trouble...

Well, my beloved pair of blackstorm clowns have suddenly decided they wanna bite and yank my hammers. Particularly the female. She just killed my new 150 buck hologram hammer in 2 days by biting it so much. I didnt know it was her messing with it. I thought it was just adjusting so it didn’t...

Hi. I have a new nano a couple of months old. I’ve recently added a few new fish (about 5) all little fish to a stable Cpl mths old brand new Red Sea nano max tank. It’s been roughly 1 week & I today read my seneye to find Ammonia spiked from stable NH3 from 0.001 to today 0.030 & over the last...

Hey guys! I’ve had this starfish for a couple months and at first she (or he) was under was under the sand a lot and come out every now and then. Recently she stays on top of the sand and I noticed this white spot on top. It’s not sand because it doesn’t come off. Also not sure what’s...

Good Morning! I am incredibly new and mostly let my husband do everything with the tank but i am trying to learn more. So please have patience lol We are upgrading our tank from 55 gal to Waterbox Infinia Reed 150.4..... My husband and i have done a lot of research but getting conflicting...

I purchased a tank off of Facebook marketplace. I was understood it to be a cycled tank. But when purchased I was only given 5 gallons of the water. There for I made all new water. I know my tank is acting a little funny and not opening up like it should. I bought the regular test kits and all...

Hello, I have a clown that has been thriving in my tank for a week now. All the sudden it is breathing heavy, swimming on the sand bed, and not eating. The water parameters are 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 20ppm nitrate, salt at 1.026, tempature of 78, with a PH of 8.0. The only thing difference...

I just got a diamond goby this morning, right before I was going to sleep, I hear a flop on my floor. All of my parameters are good, 0 ammonia, 8.1ph. Any tips to prevent?