#reefsquad

Hi guys, A sew days ago I noticed that tiny black bugs (only visible up close) started to appear on the stones, the glass and the sand. I couldn't take a picture of them because they are so tiny, verity visible to the naked eye. My question is, can they be harmful to the tank?

Hello, I need some help. What could this be on my coral sand? Is it harmful to the aquarium or can it be left in?

I started my nano tank with Prodibio Biodigest on 26 February, and on 12 March I started using Modern Reef on the advice of the specialist in the shop. In the last 3-4 days I have noticed algae appearing in small specks on the stones (I guess this means the algae change has started). The...

Hey everybody! I've got this ongoing issue with consistently low nitrates and phosphates, except when I go overboard with feeding but really feeds hair algae problem. I do manual removal of the hair algae but it always seems to come back with vengeance. I'm thinking of addressing this by...

I bought a tds meter separately from my RO/DI system, the three ways that came with the tds meter do not have the little blue clips. I’ve inserted the RO tubing into the fittings and tugged on them and they have not come back loose. Same with the meter probe itself. Am I good to pressurize...

First time posting, so please direct me to the correct forum if this is not the place. I have a 9 year old mated female clownfish who has spawn many clutches over the last 2 years. Now she has what looks like lock-jaw for the last 3 weeks and I wonder if her aging is what is causing this. I can...

On January 28th I purchased a 30 gallon hexagon tank off facebook. It looked so extremely sad, seller said he's take $75 and I figured why not. I assumed all the trumpets were dead but one head was still alive, barely! I gave the tank a decent clean and did an 80% water change the night I...

I have a nano reef (Fluval Evo 13.5gal) setup going on a little over 3 months now. I've managed to get past the diatom bloom, and a case of dinos followed by cyano. The worst of the ugly stage seems to have passed. My question is about ongoing water changes, and maintaining at least some low...

Greetings, all. I've been reading the forums, watching YouTube videos especially the BRS research related ones, for a number of months and finally took the plunge and set up a new Fluval 13.5 tank on July 15th, 2022. The plan is to just keep minimal fish, and soft corals. As background, I used...

Hello! New to reefing here and trying to get my quarantine tank ready for fish but I cant seem to get my Nitrates down! Been running for about a week now; used fishless fuel as my ammonia source and twice the recommended dose of Turbo start on Day 1; after temp and salinity were achieved. 24...

I have a 2 year old Black Oscellaris that has been swimming with its head down toward the bottom and is breathing slightly heavy and has isolated itself from the others (1 2 year old black and 2 juvenile regular) since I cleaned all the dino slime off my rocks which stirred things up a bit all...

Ok so I have a 250 gallon fowler tank I've always had high nitrates tank has been up for 3 years. I started running with a bashsea bio pellet reactor in the middle of October I added 1 cup the first week another cup a week later the 2 more. I haven't seen any drops in nitrates. The tank has been...

recently got a blue spotted puffer(Canthigaster solandr,i think) (, no sign of ich when i got him (12/23) until today 12/28. from what i know/read puffer dont do well with copper but I might take that risk unless i can get some more opinions/help. I believe he got ich from stress? i know puffer...

Hey everyone, I have recently added a second fire shrimp to a 85 gal system with plenty of rock work and I didn’t see the new little guy for 2-3 days after adding to tank. Yesterday I finally saw him and noticed he was missing some legs one of his claws and most antennae (I’ve attached pictures...

Ok so here is my situation I had about 175 lbs of old pukani rock and it had a lot of algae on it bought it of of fb market place. So I decided to bleach it I used 3 gallons of regular bleach and about a half to 3/4 no spill bleach. I saw the water foaming I rinsed a bunch of times just letting...

Is this cyanobacteria I did two back to back treatments of cyanobacteria no improvement any suggestions?

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Okay so, my tank is about 5 days old but it came with live rock, live sand and 2 corals which r doing fine. Now someone gave me an offer which I think is a very good deal but I'm not sure if I can add fish yet, ( I've been using bacteria in a bottle ). The offer he gave me is : 1 firefish 1...

Can anybody tell me why is it that when my tank get really dirty and I scrub the glass off and blow off the rocks my acro frags die every single time. The frags will look great the entire time until I clean the tank... This very turbid water the cleaning creates clearly ticks them off to the...

After reading a bunch, I recently took the plunge into collecting what I need for a FOWLR tank. I've had freshwater tanks, but this will be my first SW tank. Some day I might upgrade to a reef tank, but for now I want to focus on the basics of keeping fish alive. I have a 37-gallon column tank...

Hello, Not sure what this is and its all over!! 250 gallon fish only Nitrate 25ppm Alkalinity 9.5 Salinity 1.026 Phosphate .08 It does blow right off the rocks

Hello, Not sure what this is and its all over!! 250 gallon fish only Nitrate 25ppm Alkalinity 9.5 Salinity 1.026 Phosphate .08

Hello, Not sure what this is and its all over!! 250 gallon fish only Nitrate 25ppm Alkalinity 9.5 Salinity 1.026 Phosphate .08

I recently added a bunch of coral and dipped with coral RX I'm not sure what this is or if its harmful thanks in advance