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Morning, all! I'm helping an elderly relative replace her lighting on her 150gal softie reef. 2 out of the three T247s are going bad, so she's springing on the 66" Blade. The T247s were running 100% Blue from 9am-7pm, whites 20% 10am-5pm. What kind of settings should I be going for to not...

I cut the small piece of the protruding plastic (in the back chamber) on my Flex 15, in order to fit my protein skimmer. small pieces of plastic got into the water column, I tried my best to get them out of the water with a fine net but could this cause damage to any fish or corals in the long run?

Hi, I’ve posted about my tank before on other groups but it’s kinda going backwards so I’m asking for help once again. I set up my Fluval evo in march. I have 2 damsels, 5 pieces of life rock, and a mangrove. I have the stock light. It’s been looking brown for about 2 months. I thought it was...

Hello I was curious to if anyone knows if this is ich? Thank you so much

Hi fellow reefers, I’ve been battling low pH issues in my Marine X 110.4 for a long time now, and I’m really concerned. My pH just won’t go above 7.7 (sometimes it even drops to 7.6). I’ve done everything I can think of to improve the situation: I’ve moved to a bigger apartment, opened doors...

I have a 30 gallon setup that will eventually go into a 150 gallon next year. I have a basic ni crew light, a heater, a fluval canister filter (no sump) a hang on back oase protein skimmer, a fluval uv light that connects too my filter, a auto top of system, auto feeder, 2 wave makers, carib sea...

Hello, I have been dealing w a weird algae/ Dino’s? I was wondering if anyone could help me ID

Hello all, I’m having some troubles with the corals in my 65g tank. It’s my first reef, so keep in mind I’m fairly new to this. None of my corals seem to be growing, and I’m really lost as to why. I have lost two corals (Kenya tree and Duncan) for unknown reasons. Other than those, I have some...

As the title says, I have a new tank. My livestock consists of two clowns, two nassarius snails, and two cerith snails. I feed the clowns pellets and mysis shrimp (not at the same time. The mysis are a treat). The nassarius snails do a great job on the uneaten mysis, but they really don't go...

So I’m moving and want to take my hobby with me. Sort of. I’m keeping my livestock, and I have moved with fish cross country before and feel comfortable with it. That’s not my problem area, I’m really torn on my actual aquarium. So I’ve had a Red Sea 250 set up for a while and I don’t exactly...

Hi all, need some urgent advice. My mandarin dragonet I’ve raised from when he was a baby is extremely messed up right now. His breathing is slow, all his fins are damaged, and he has these visible white patches all over. I have him in a new bare bottom tank right now, what does everyone...

So have had this issue for last 3 months. Established tank of over 10 years. Looks like cyan but local FS looked under microscope. Pics and video attached. Chen clean doesn’t work. Used 2 bottles and no change . Sheets like cyan but is a bit fiberous. Has anyone seen this and what do I...

I posted a thread not too long ago about this but it’s gotten a lot worse since then. I’ve cut down on feeding, and I’m scraping and picking out as much as i can every day but it just keeps growing!! Any suggestions pls lmk! P.S. I will be upgrading to a 65g soon so the larger body of water...

Of course im new to the hobby, my tanks is 4 months old. I’m running a 80 Gal redsea G2, with two reef led 90s, reef mat, skimmer and Red Sea reef spec carbon. I religiously do a 10% water change weekly and all my numbers have been steady. I think I understand the ugly phase but I don’t know how...

Have had him for a little over a month and he is finally getting along with the other tangs in the tank and now I see these dots … they were not there last night or two nights ago I’m sure… no other tangs or fish have dots…I do have a lot of torches, hammers and bubble tips so maybe be got stung...

I know most people consider these a pest but i love mine. it was big and pink but has shriveled up and turned a greyish color its the only coral in my tank to do this. My parameters are Nitrite - 0.2, Nitrate - 20, No ammonia and my my ph is steady 8.3, i dont have test for anything else it is...

Hello, I have a new aquarium arround 2 months old, and have some sort of ugly phase or Dino, or something else I am not sure. From two days I had awful smell in home from the aquarium. My parameters are good: KH 7,5; CA 430; MG 1400; PO4 0.02; nitrate 2,5; This is the picture of the algea that...

My Scorpionfish (I believe he's a Scorpaenodes Brasiliensi) has had what looked like a little fog in his eye for a little over a month, my lion had the same little bit of cloudiness and it disappeared on its own so I didn't think much of it. My params are perfect 8.2ph 0amm, 0nit, minimal...

These little buggers are buiding sand tubes everywhere and have these mucus like strands that retract. They are in the sand and on the live rocks. They are everywhere. Very ugly, also dont know if they are hurting my coral or making life hard for my sandsifting star fish considering the tubes...

I’ve had my 30 gallon tank setup for about 3 weeks, everything is healthy and good. But I am going through the algae stage, I’ll clean the glass spotless and the next day it’s covered again. Side question. It was originally brown algae on the glass but now it’s a green algae, does that mean...

I purchased a 14g pre established tank a few weeks ago it has 2 clowns some hermits and a snail. I Introduced a emerald crab and a Sand sifting starfish. I have started noticing these white strings everywhere connected to rock and even some in sand. Based on my research it seems likely they are...

Yoyo, so awhile ago i say maybe around a months ago ago my brother noticed my fish Deadpool was turning yellow and i looked it up instantly and saw that apparently he has that gold dust disease, so i went to my local petco and got the coppersafe. He's in a two gallon tank so i put half a...

I have had this pair of clownfish for about 10 months, and they have been doing well until lately. My male clownfish spends his time around the wavemaker, or in the spot shown in the video: He eats fine when its time to eat, however he then spends the rest of the day at the wavemaker. At...

Hey everyone, need help identifying this crab, was sold to me as a emerald crab, I have some doubts. Emeralds crabs are pretty hard to find in Australia, soo thought I would take the chance and buy it, just seeing if anyone can confirm if its a emerald crab, or a pest crab. Thank you in advance