mixed reef

I got bored of looking at my RGB-filled gaming PC which I always thought looked like an aquarium. Recently, my partner got a freshwater tank next to her painting studio and so I went down the rabbit hole of fish tanks... Here is my first marine tank! Current State (3 Months): For my purposes...

Hello all! I was cleaning and moving some corals around in my tank and found that near a colony of some zoas there appears to be some kind of brown clove polyp growing around them… which is weird because I’ve only ever had firework cloves in my tank which are never brown, even when young...

Hello! I have been on R2R for quite a few years, but usually just lurking in the background reading endless forum posts and trying to learn from all the incredible people on here. There are some incredibly smart people out there and I enjoy learning from each of you. I am looking at taking...

Hey all. It has been a while since my last little reef build. The Mrs. and I are in the process of moving, so a new larger setup is out of the question. Not sure if I want to go reefing fallow though, so I’m setting up a tiny reef tank on my desk to keep the coral side of my brain happy until...

Hey folks. My name is José and I currently live in Augusta Georgia with my wife Erika who contributes a great deal to this tank as well. I'd love to introduce you guys to our new Nyos Opus G2 69 gallon tank! Unfortunately, our previous 50 Gallon SCA cube tank crashed back in September...

Just a short video of my gold torch!

I'd like to know if doing a Cipro treatment on DT has any effect on fishes and invertebrates? I'm doing Cipro for the first time as i have recently lost a hammer and torch and i suspect its BJD. I have tried iodine dip and coral rx, unfortunately have been unsuccessful. I have decided to do...

Looking at getting a reef octopus but not sure what model as I think getting too big of one will prevent it from really working? Looking at the Reef Octopus Classic 110-INT. Seems like a good size for the Innovative Marine 100 INT (about 86-100 gallons when factoring in rock and sand...

Hello R2R! Very excited to start this build, beyond excited actually. The time has come to combine all three of my aquariums into something big and beautiful. Decided to go with the R120 (Check them out here) by Ultum Nature Systems. These tanks are so so so beautiful. On top of that, so well...

Hey everyone! I finally got back into reefing a little bit ago and have set up a display reef tank, a display macro-algae tank, and a frag tank since then! i didn’t take much for pics along the way, but i take a ton now that it’s all set up! i’m super excited to be getting back to growing...

The tank is a Red Sea Max Nano XL with a layout of 19x 19 x 19 inch cube. I already have a point source LED light (Red Sea 50w LED) but it’s not powerful enough and doesn’t have the spread/coverage I need to grow Acro/SPS colonies. Many of the popular lights discussed are gauged towards...

In today's video Blaine takes us into the studio where we get to see an update on the Red Sea Reefer 250! This has been an update we have been waiting to put out because A LOT has changed in this system since the last time it was showcased here on the channel! Love to hear your favorite newest...

Hey there guys I wanted to start a new thread I keep seeing old ones regarding this topic from years ago. I have a 75 gallon mixed reef with 8 nems 3 black widows, 1 ultra bubble tip, 2 normal rose bubble tip, 1 nexus, 1 Sherman rose and one rock flower with some other corals and such I have had...

Hello reef2reef forum! I want to contribute and show my aquarium that I am setting up in my kitchen. About me: 40 years old have been tinkering with saltwater and reef aquariums since 2014 with a break of a couple of years. Lives just north of Stockholm in Sweden. former aquarium: fresh water...

Hey everyone first time posting to the forum. I've read it and looked for advice for a long time. I have a 9 month old mixed reef tank. I've noticed over the past 3 or 4 weeks my filter socks have been clogging badly. Well tonight I heard them overflowing and found this thick brown slime all...

Hello everyone , old but new here, been in the forum for quite a few but wasnt active , now im really into this forum, im a hobbyist, who started with a 65g tank back in 2019, lost all my coral in 2020 and built back ever since. Ive build so much that im grateful of being able to be a vendor...

Hey Reefers! I've recently decided to pull the trigger on a Red Sea REEFER 200XL (I had to get this due to space restrictions), and I've also decided to document the entire journey. The ups, downs, good, and ugly. I first started the hobby with a JBJ 20 gallon, then upgraded to a 110, and...

Here are some pics of my mixed reef tank before and after :) Almost 2 years old, plan is to fill up the rest of the sanded with scolys, acanthos, wellso, etc! Let me know what you guys think 150gal 4x2 x3 XR-15 PROS G6 x3 NERO 5s no skimmer (just fuge can chemipure blue) no reactors dose...

Hello everyone! I just wanted to hop on here to say I’m excited to join the forum! I’ve been a freshwater hobbyist for a long time, but the past couple months I have been running a 24 gallon mixed reef tank. I have learned quite a bit from this forum and YouTube, but am excited to get more...

Hi all, After my 32g tank went through a 2000km house move (from Germany to Spain) in a car's trunk with 100F outside and 1 year of minimal maintanance I decided to give it some love and make a brand new setup, and of course, write a Build thread about it! Some background: I initially downsized...

Hey Everyone! Been out of the game for a little over a year after a move from Arkansas to Louisiana. I decided that even though there isn't much here in the way of a LFS (closest is around 3 hour drive), I couldn't see myself without a reef tank. I have previously owned a 180, 125, and 75 gallon...

Hi all, a bit of a story, we went to this wonderful small bay in Fiji last year. My first ever time snorkelling and also had the taste of my first ever dive on the rainbow reef. The mind blowing shoal of fish around beautiful coral colonies had me wanting to recreate a tiny of bit paradise in...

Hi everyone, my name is Leianne and recently became the proud new owner of an ESHOPPS Mariner 100! I’ll update soon with more details; just wanted to quickly introduce myself and say hey!

Hey all, I am just doing research into starting up a mixed reef in a aqua one minireef 160 and I was just wondering what would be an adequate lighting upgrade. I plan to start off with livestock first (stocking to be determined) so the included 40w led should be sufficient until I upgrade later...