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I have a Red Sea nano max xxl 52 gallons tank. Nano mat and protein skimmer. I bought this coral 5 days ago. The tank is about a month or more old. It seemed very happy the first 3 days and then up to today has been barely extending polyps and shrinking in size. I checked my parameters and...

Thought I'd go ahead and make a tank build thread, so anyone new, can see WHAT NOT TO DO. :face-with-tears-of-joy: Is my tank even considered a tank?? I'm definitely a glutton for punishment (but it's working so far). Please enjoy this wonderful step-by-step diary guide of 'Things Not to Do"...

Introduction Hello! As the title suggests, this is my first reef tank. I'll use this post primarily to document the aquarium's progress over time. I'll share what I'm doing and learning, hoping it might help someone along the way. I studied aquaculture, and I already have a densely planted...

Hello everyone, I’m finally able to slow down life and make somewhere home for a couple consistent years. I have never owned fish as an adult. I’ve moved so much in my line of work from America > Afganistan > America > South Korea > Germany > Poland > Germany > and now onwards to Brazil...

Hi, I am relatively new to salt water reef tanks. I got a 80 gallon tank for free luckily about 8 months ago. About a month and a half ago I noticed very tiny like shrimp bug things and did some research and saw posts about centipods, amphipods etc and thought maybe this was them. But I am not...

Hello everyone, I have a 55-Gal Tank and Today I am looking into Lights for my tank. I currently have a FOWLR tank, and I don't think Ima add coral for a while as I'm new to the hobby and trying to learn before jumping in! With that said I don't mind getting something that will support corals...

Hello Everyone, Welcome to my build thread. I am 27 years old and grew up watching Tanked I always wanted an Aquarium. I have recently gotten the itch to try this hobby out. I researched before I started but not even close to how much I needed to do. I want to start small with a 55-Gal FOWLR...

Hello everyone! I have recently got the urge to get a saltwater aquarium not sure how in-depth I want to go tho. Definitely going to stick to just fish and live rock. I currently have got a 55 gal tank with a HOB filter. The biggest problem I have ran into is my tap water even after using...

Howdy everyone, I am planning my transition from freshwater to saltwater over the next few months and I need some help designing my sump. The aquarium is 67.5 gallons, like a tall 55g. I have kept a reef with my dad when I was a teenager and helped him set it all up, that was 15 years ago and...

Starting a nano 5 gallon will be my first time doing coral

I’m new to salt water tanks and forums so I apologize if I’m asking this for the 1000th time, set up this tank two weeks ago using live sand and rock. This yellow stuff showed up practically overnight. I just got the test strips but my alkalinity and hardness are too high, everything else is...

Since I'm only a month into the saltwater hobby, I figured I'd ask if anyone had any funny stories to share during their experience with the hobby. For me, when I first got my corals, fish, inverts, and shrimp, my partner and I were putting them all in the tank one at a time. Lastly, before we...

Hello everyone, I just got a tank from my girlfriend as a birthday gift, I waited an about a week to let the tank cycle then added two clowns after I got my water tested. I then added a fire red shrimp to clean up excess food and that has been in the tank. I’m not sure what I should do as of...

Hey everyone! Brand new to Reef2Reef. It has been my dream since I was a little kid to have a saltwater aquarium. I think I may start moving in the direction of actually having one now. I have started to read a little on here but I would love some feedback from the pros! I have compiled a list...

Hello all blukorr here, I've been dreaming, researching and saving for five years to break into the salty side of the hobby! I've saved up around 5 grand to get my dream tank and equipment and I feel it's time to pull the proverbial trigger and start buying things. I've seen that a lot of...

Hey, all. This is my first reef tank, and I am overwhelmed with all the equipment needs. I purchased a Waterbox 25g AIO peninsula tank and have an appropriate custom stand, but that is the only 'hardware' that I own at this time. Included below is a potential build list. If possible, I would...

Hi everyone, I'm really new to the hobby and I have just started work on a 75 gallon saltwater tank. It was in use less than 24 hours prior to my bringing it home, and the live rock, dry rock, filter (media) and sand as well as some of the original water from the tank came home with me. I'm...

Hey, all! New to the forums and semi noob to reefing. I’ve been in the aquarium Hobby for 10+years done Plenty of high tech planted and enjoyed it. Looking for great advice been creeping and a lot of knowledgeable peeps here. I have a chemistry and biology background so I have a great...

Hi everyone! I'm coming from over 20 years of freshwater tropical hobbying, mostly with planted shrimp tanks. Starting to figure out this whole salt water marine stuff and taking over my siblings 240 gallon beast of a tank. It's been super neglected and only had basic maintenance but I was...

I recently set up a 90 gallon sump tank with 30 gallon sump underneath and there seems to be a loud overflow sound. The overflow pipe is submerged in the sump, I could use suggestions on what I could do to make it quieter. If I need to make adjustments to the overflow head or the overflow piping...

Hi all, I'm from the UK and dipping my toe into the saltwater and reefing hobby with a 35g juwel lido 120 setup and plan to upgrade along the way, eventually to a big tank in a few years. I have done so much research over the last month and have had my tank setup for a week now awaiting...

So for some reason one of my GSP frag closed up. It was open last week and now it closed up and looks like it is disintegrating (seeing the green polyp) The other frag is doing well though and it was part of that frag I cut off. That part of the frag was already closing off when I cut that...

Hello, I am new to saltwater aquariums. I had no idea that I have to cycle a tank before I add any livestock. I brought two clowns from lfs, bought aragonite sand and three live rocks in 15gallon fluval tank. I understand some ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates swings can happen during a cycle...

Right, here goes. I have little more than an idea-explosion making waves across my mind and it is saying, "build a low-tech cube or lagoon reef." I want to build an aquarium from scratch but then I look at these AIO aquariums available left and right across several price points and my dreams...

My Salinity is at 31ppt. In theory could I just use salt water in my auto top up to increase my Sailinity. Will this cause my any problems? Any alternative methods?