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Got a beautiful white and blue Alveopora a few weeks ago that looked great for the first week and then almost totally retracted into its skeleton for the past 2-3 weeks. It’s not dead, I can barely see a few polyps, but I know it’s in bad shape. Only parameter I really had off was low alk, which...

Hey everyone, My porcupine puffer started getting fussy about eating two weeks ago. It escalated to where they are chewing and then spitting out almost all the food they get. They are now getting too skinny and I don't know what to do. Tank parameters: 125 gallon long 1.0225 salinity 0...

Hi, I just noticed there’s something wrong with our Blue Tang, I don’t know if she got injured or if it’s a disease. She is swimming fine, and we’ve had her over 5yrs. Can anyone please help?

Hi all, recently noticed my clowns are starting to develop a minor white haze. I will post a picture below. Recently when through a small ugly stage otherwise the parameters are been stabile. Any advise would be great on how I should move forward. Thanks

Came home from work and the female has been just chillin here. Is this considered gasping for air?? She did have white stringy poop the other day. The male clown and blenny are acting completely normal. Trying not to panic lol please help and tell me what to do. @Jay Hemdal

Hello I need some urgent advice regarding my tanks 1x 200L QT tank containing 2x Clown + Bengal (juvenile) + royal Gramma + Longhorn Cowfish (juvenile) + Hippo Tang (Juvenile) Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 5 1.025 sg 26degC 1x 600L +100L Sump DT, UV Sterilizer Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0...

My new puffer fish has a diet of mysis shrimp and I saw him poop out this can someone tell me if he is sick or if this is normal (it wasn’t only these red dots there was normal looking poop too)

Hello. I am new to the hobby. I have a blue-green chromis that has a white spot up near the dorsal fin. It showed up first this morning. I have had him for about a month. I don’t have a QT and fear I am about to see the consequences of that… he has been swimming around and eating fine. The tank...

My powder blue tang is 3 years old and has been healthy and happy up until a couple weeks ago. He started acting odd and I noticed he had what looked like small white strings coming off of his head. I freshwater dipped him and it seemed to have work for the time being. Fast forward a few more...

Hi guys! Today I noticed these tiny white spots on my clownfish, is kind of weird cause it only looks like that under blue light, just wondering if you could give me some advice on him (I am new in this hobby just started this year), he is swimming normally and not acting weird at all. I do...

Hello, I have been searching nonstop for anything regarding sick marine bettas and I just keep finding that they basically just “never get sick.” mine has been doing great for months. Eats great (I feed him live feeder ghost shrimp) and is one of my favorite fish. He’s recently stopped eating...

Hello! I currently have a fire fish that is either swimming vertically (nose down) or on its side. It has no external symptoms (curves, lumps, etc). It is in QT tank with a blue tang, clown fish, watchman goby, and skunkback. The reason for the QT is the blue tang had velvet so I took...

Hi! My clownfish has been acting a bit weird he is just parking in one corner of the tank, time to time, he swims to the bottom or the top of the tank in that same corner, he is eating well, and he is not having any trouble breathing, does not have any visible ich or velvet. But I don't know I...

Hi, this is my first saltwater fish (1 of 2 clownfish), and it doesn't seem to be doing well. There's a white "flake" coming out of its side/gill, and it's breathing hard from its mouth. See video below. Can someone please help me figure out what it is and how I can treat it?? See the white...

Hi I am new to the saltwater hobby. I have a had my pair of gold nugget maroon clowns for about a year now and they have seemed to be healthy up until today. My male clown if sitting on the bottom of the tank not moving, not eating and is breathing heavy. The female is very active breathing...

Noticed last night that she didn’t look herself. She’s showing her mouth a lot and is going back and forth between being very deflated and deflated. also noticed some other corals are unhappy this week (lps specific) so may be parameters?? I did directly feed her for the first time in a long...

Hello. I have a newly set up tank and started with a filefish. He was doing well for about a month and then we added two clownfish. The tank is 26 gallons. The filefish mysteriously disappeared. Mind you the ammonia and nitrite had been zero before we put the fish in. Two days later one of the...

blue tang died as I’m writing this And coral beauty showing severe decaying flesh Fish have what looks to be bites taken out of their tails I have started melafix today. What treatment should I be using ? What is their disease ? any information will be helpful !

new tank and my clown fish did fine for the first day and day two they started to lay on their side and breath super heavy and not move around to much and will not eat I don’t know what’s wrong but I don’t want to lose him I already lost my other due to the same problem I checked my water it all...

I recently got a dwarf flame from an LFS. It initially explored my 65 gallon but since then has been staying in a specific "cave". It might venture out a little bit but otherwise just kinda hangs there. It also isn't really eating. I don't see spots or anything and the lfs copper treats it's...

I just purchased these two clownfish but I noticed on one of them a little discoloration I’m new to the hobby and I’m not sure if it’s discoloration or the color of the clownfish it seems only one fish has it. Does it look like anything to you guys?

Good afternoon, Quick synopsis…mature reef, 65 gal 1.025 Nitrate 5 Phos .8 Alk 9.5 Cal 500 Mg 1470 pH 8.1-8.3 Tank been running for 6 years Running Modified Moonshiners 1000ml kalk I’ve had the yellow tang for well over a year. Quite healthy or so I thought. Wife noticed ‘white dust’ on him...

Hello everyone, it's me again, you may recognize my name as I have been having a lot of fish related bad luck this past week with 1 fish dying and 2 more becoming ill, all-in different tanks. I was on the forum yesterday and today to get to the bottom of my sick snowflake eel who I suspect has...

Hello, My name is Jeff. I am new to this forum. I currently have a 250 gallon, 75 gallon, 55 gallon, 35 gallon, and 10 gallon aquarium, all saltwater. This post is about my new 1 week old baby bamboo shark. For some background I want to put out there that I have a lot of experience with sharks...

So I had a 4 or 5 finger staulk 8 inch to 9 " long happy sinularia? Green. For a year. About 3 weeks ago, it started retracting. I had moved it away from an anemonee that was bothering it. I figured it would be fine. But now i notice a "tear"? In base and black stuff? And it has been...