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Howdy All! My name is Reinboordt and I last kept a reef aquarium with my dad when I was a teenager 20 years ago. It was a great tank but my dad was impulsive and expected me to do all the research on what he had purchased instead of before. Some major family changes and moving to the other side...

I have attached images of my 40 gallon startup to my now 75 gallon. I had a tank with a sump for over 30 years. I developed a hair algae breakout and could never recover. I broke down the tank and sold everything. 10 years later I started again. I was going to do a cichlid tank but could...

I have made a few posts about my system which is a little unique. It’s a 135 mixed reef filtered by canisters, with a 35g cube display refugium plumbed in. I’m looking for some interesting inverts for the display fuge. Currently it houses two clowns and a ORA mandarin. Along with 5 sexy...

I just noticed these red balls on my starfish, they weren’t there two hours ago. If anyone knows I would greatly appreciate it.

Hello! So when I first entered this hobby I had no idea that reef inverts were so diverse and interesting. So much so that I already want to do a small tank for inverts. Could you all recommend something that would live happily in say, a 5g fishbowl? I was thinking a few sexy shrimp with rock...

Is Fritz maracyn safe for anemone starfish and cleaner shrimp?

Hi everyone! One month into the tank’s cycling process (29 days to be exact), these are my current water parameters: pH: 9 (has increased in the last 5 days, previously stable between 8 and 8.5) KH: 8 (was 9/10 at the beginning, now stable at 8 for the last 10 days) NH3/NH4: 0 (stable for 20...

I recently had to deport a rock hermit crab from my display into my sump due to it getting a bit peckish with my snails and it got me thinking.. What critters do you keep in your sump?

Hi there, so my Pom Pom crab was on my mushroom coral today but under him was this squiggly stuff. Anyone know what it is??

Saw this stuff streaming out of my feather duster. It had some sort of mucus that didn’t show up well on camera. Looks like poo but maybe eggs? I don’t know much about them anatomically. This was the same worm that dropped both its feeding appendages and is still doing great.

I’ve been running a Nem/softy tank the dirty way for about 2 years now with fantastic growth. I don’t run a roller mat or socks on the tank and with the comes some detritus build up in the sump. With monthly WCs I clear what I can but there’s still plenty of tight spots in the sump. What are...

Good morning! .. well kind of :anxious-face-with-sweat: This morning I woke up to my adult Skunk Cleaner Shrimp on the sandbed after noticing some odd behavior the night before, 9 days after purchase. Last night I noticed the Skunk Cleaner in his usual spot, upside down surveying the tank...

Hey everyone Curious if anyone knows what type of snail this is? The “spikes” on it are soft and retract if touched, and shell is hard. It hitchhiked into my NPS system somehow, I saw it the other day on my scleronephthya (spelling?) christmas tree coral but assumed it was new growth as it...

I have an 8 week old Hello Reef 15g nano with the following stock: (2) Clowns (1) YWG (1) Skunk cleaner (1) Peppermint shrimp (3) Mexican hermits (5) Astraea snails No corals yet. Waiting for tank to mature and will attempt some zoas and softies at 6months. I didn't expect it but I love my...

There is this fluid filled sac that’s on top of my urchin. It’s not something that it picked up, it’s attached to its body. I took it out of the water. For a few seconds to inspect it and the sac deflated. I put it back into the water and it inflated again. What is this thing?

I'm running a softie only coral tank with some inverts. Recently, there has been a huge abundance of huge amphipods which I believe ate all of my zoas (my leather crown/toadstool and rhodactis mushrooms are completely untouched). Any recommendations for low maintenance inverts that eat...

I have an 80 gallon AIO reef tank (4 foot long 17 inches tall) that is 1 year old. I have a Yellow Tang, Longnose Hawkfish, Flame Angelfish, and a Mandarin Dragonet for fish. For Inverts I have a sand sifting star, cleaner shrimp, and a bunch of astrea and nassarius snails. I also have various...

Hello, I’ve finished setting up my sump for my 60 gallon breeder. I set this tank up a while ago using live ocean rock but I’m just now adding a sump and fish to it. The dimensions of the tank are 48.5" x 18.5"x 18". So far, I’ve only added a pair of clownfish and some soft coral and they’re...

Hello everyone! I'm relatively new having a fish tank, let a along a reef tank! I started my tank around a year ago, but have only recently started to populate it with more corals and fish. I've read through some of the different guides on hitchhikers and those were all super useful! Thanks to...

Hello, I have two saltwater tanks; one is a 60 gallon breeder and the other is a Fluval evo 13.5. I set up the 60 gallon breeder with a hob filter and kp aquatics live ocean rock back in May and I haven’t done anything with it since then. My Fluval Evo has been set up for a year now and it has...

I have a deal going for locals.NO shipping sorry I'm not setup for that. 3-$50 8-$100 sizes very from 1/2-3/4" mixed packs . Available in Vancouver wa. Get them while supplies last. 98682 ..also open to coral trades. Pm for details.just a local hobbyists

Never seen one quite like it anyone can ID it came in on live rock rubble it moves , it has two small holes on each end - it is soft and squishy like a slug / snail / anemone and I have seen it squirt once or twice - looking to figure what it is if NPS or a pest or a fish eater Also anyone...

So I have a large population of asterina stars. I appreciate some people have no problem with them and actually value them as part of their cleanup crew. I’ve noticed them eating my Zoa’s and I’ve been doing some manual removal but never thought they would pose a risk to fish. Checked the tank...

Hello! I have a 12.5 gallon Fluval AIO that has been running stable for a few months now and I am looking to add some more to it. Currently there is a large almost palm size colony of palys that are spreading rapidly, an orange sea star that has been doing solid for a few months (fingers...