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Hello all found this little guy behind one of my rocks. It’s tiny and in a very low light area. On first glance I thought it may be aptasia, so I went to get it off the rock. It closed very quickly after being touched. After thinking about what I saw I wasn’t sure it was actually aptasia. I’ve...

So I’ve lost about 10 fish already including 2 tangs, 5 clownfish, algae blenny and an anthias. I have 2 wrasse left, 2 chromis and a goby with no signes All the inverts you can get basically and loads of coral. All permittees are stable and lights are dimmed down, I’ve put the temp up to...

Hello everyone! Just ordered an Innovative Marine 75 EXT a couple of days ago and was wondering what you all would suggest for lighting this tank? Dimensions on the tank are 35.4 L x 23.6 W x 19.7 H. I have been looking at other threads of people asking the same things but I have not been able...

My re-start reef is about 4 months old and already have dinos. My phosphate is at 0.08 and my nitrate at 0.0 which explains it, i am feeding very heavily which has caused a hair algea bloom but nitrate wont go up, just dose neo nitro? turn off skimmer? Thanks guys

Hi everyone, I rigged a fluval sienna 72gal for 120$ so that it can fit a sump under. The tank is 31.5” × 19.7” × 25.6”. I want a mixed reef. Here is the problem, I bought a radion xr30 g6 blue on market place for half the price, it was used 2 months. And I have a brand new orphek Atlantic. I...

Ca 492, Alk 8.7, No3 2.5, Po4 0.05 I don’t have a Mg test Tank is over a year old and most things are thriving (a couple frags have been banged up due to my lack of coordination and fine motor skills) 90g DT, 20g main sump, 30g refugium I know the calcium is pretty high but it didn’t get...

So in my home made AIO baffle system using a pvc baffle I have came across a problem. The outer seam on the return chamber has blown out, and so it is effectively bypassing the heater and filtration (I would say only about 10% of the flow through those chambers. So I temporarily moved the...

Hi all, I've setup this tank for around a month now, and I think it's time to add some coral as parameters are good (0ppm NH3, 0ppm NO2-) However, I'm a bit lost on where to start haha. I'm thinking maybe some softies first? I'm trying to do a mixed tank with a BTA eventually. Any advice on...

What's up everyone, My name is Jacob, and I currently live in Hong Kong I used to have a small tank, but it crashed right after my BTA got shredded in the powerhead. Really tragic, but I'm ready to jump back into the hobby. Below is a photo of my new tank, if anyones interested. It's a RedSea...

Very small snails hoping for an id as there are tons in my refugium

I have a very bad cyano problem in my tank and I’m looking for any ways to deal with it. I’ve dosed chemiclean four times, my mother and I have spent hours manually removing it for weeks, I’ve lowered my nutrients since I assumed my phosphate being high was the cause (and now my nitrates are too...

Hey everyone, When I first started this tank about nine months ago, I made what I now know was a rookie mistake — I went with ultra-fine sand for my substrate. At the time, I didn’t realize how much trouble that choice would cause down the road. Now I’m dealing with a few ongoing issues that...

So a couple of days ago I saw 2 of my fish had ich. I tried fishing them out but was unsuccessful. Now my goby is completely spotless ,my royal gramma is out in the open like normal, and all my other fish look completely normal. I did buy a UV sterilizer but it got delayed until today. Is it...

Have my Yellow watchman goby for 3 months in my new tank. He has a pistol shrimp which he never mated with. Used to always see him but this week barely saw him. He came out today and looked terrible. I moved rocks yesterday so maybe I smushed him I really don’t know and feel like ****. Here’s...

I have 2 maxi mini’s in a ~ 30 gal tank. One is beautiful big and fat ( we’ll call that one pancake) , has doubled in size in the last year I’ve had the tank and the other ( we’ll call that one flapjack) was big and beautiful but is behaving weird now. Pancake does have a big bubble on it I just...

Today I just noticed weird behavior with my royal gramma and noticed its color looks whiter than usual. It’s breathing is normal and still actively eats. I spent an hour trying to get a good picture but couldn’t. I’ll still keep trying though. Since I noticed my gramma was off I checked every...

Hello to you all, i have these sps corals that the green one has white tips with some brown stuff on top of this, and the other coral is starting to develop some brown stuff on it to. Is this a problem of flow or something else? Alk 8.5 Mag 1430 Calc 430 Phosp 0.1 Nitrate 1-2

hello everyone! just need to know if this is a good enough larvae and isolation tank for my gravid peppermint shrimp. its a 20L bucket with a sponge filter for gentle filtration + good bacteria + aeration, heater pre-set to about 25°C, a temporary hide because i have no spare rock, and a...

My GSP just died, I don't know why I just whent to do my semi weekly 12 percent water change and noticed my GSP was all closed up and within hours it had completely died, I tested my water, the calcium was right, the ph and alk were looking good, and so did the ammonia, and nitrate, and...

Hey, does anyone know why my fluval filter randomly turned off? I have the fluval hang on the back 30 gallon filter (the aqua clear one) and i came home today to it being off and it was still plugged in, so i tried filling some more water in it thinking maybe it just didnt have enough water but...

Hello everyone! I'm starting to feel lazy just coming on here everytime I get stuck for information, but everytime I do my own research I get overloaded with different information, conflicting information, and advice that doesn't seem applicable to my particular case :( I've got a 65L tank...

I got a goni frag from a fellow reefer. It was headed to the trash bin and I offered to try and save it. I thought it was covered in gha but I am not sure. I tried brushing it off and am not making progress. I am wondering if a dip in hygrogen peroxide would help? And how to get it back to...

Hello everyone! Today i got some live rock to add to my 65L tank to fill things out a bit and I got 2 surprise new residents (that i know of so far). I'm pretty sure the mystery star is a brittle star, which worries me a bit because i primarily keep 4 peppermint shrimp and 2 astrea snails as my...

Help please #fishmedic #fishmedics I fed my tank frozen food, Hikari spirulina mysis cube, and some LRS herb frenzy that had some freezer burns. 5 minutes prior, my clowns were swimming perfect in their frogspawn. 10 minutes after I fed I noticed my larger female clown drifting. I thought...

Hello saltwater hobbyists, I’m a young teen in the freshwater hobby (my tank is the last photo) This is my dad’s old tank from about 10 years ago and is still sitting in the living room collecting dust. He had tried to revive it about 2 years ago which was in vain. It’s been an eyesore to look...