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I bought two corals recently and dipped them with ME coral dip. The first one I dipped just fine, but i didn't have enough water for the second one to sit in, so I put more water from my tank into the container with the second coral and by accident, used the same pipette with the ME coral dip...

There is three of these in my tank as of now, should I be concerned with them?

Originally I only fed my fish once every two days, for a while my nitrate is stable at 5 ppm but my phosphate struggles to stay stable going from .25 down to zero. I have been dosing bright well's Neo nitro and Neo phos at 5 ml daily because I want the nitrate to go to 10 ppm and for phos to...

In the past month I beat a severe dinoflagellate problem and moved forward to testing calcium, magnesium and alkalinity. when I tested calcium it read 400, and alkalinity read 9. but when I tested magnesium with the Salifert magnesium test kit, I was only seeing pink and no blue. I tested the...

I had a massive dinoflagellate outbreak in the past few months, and took the necessary steps to fight it off. I dosed PNS pro bio's purple non sulfuric bacteria, dosing 150 ml daily until I killed the bottle. Fed my cope pods reef nutrition's phyto feast and they've exploded in population ever...

A couple months back, I made a big mistake of putting unfiltered tap water from my bar sink into my reef tank because I was being lazy, and while nothing happened immediately it eventually messed everything up in my tank. As a result I got a massive bloom of green hair algae and dinoflagellates...

I recently figured out that I actually have dinoflagellates and not cyano through quick researching. do you just increase nitrate and phosphate then dose bacteria and pods, or is there more than just that? do I still do weekly water changes or stop doing them? do I still run my protein skimmer...

I had a porcupine puffer a long time ago and I suspected that he got lock jaw before he died. He used to eat a plethora of food krill, shrimp, clams, and even squid. I thought about getting another puffer in the future but what can I do to prevent lock jaw from happening again?

This freak accident happened to me a long time ago. One night I was topping off my tank with new water; the snowflake eel I had was sitting on one of the rocks, and I did see the new water being converted around him, before this night, the eel was just fine when I topped off the tank in the past...

This freak accident happened to me a long time ago. One night I was topping off my tank with new water; the snowflake eel I had was sitting on one of the rocks, and I did see the new water being converted around him, before this night, the eel was just fine when I topped off the tank in the past...

I haven't done an update on my 125 gallon tank in a long time, but now I need help for my tank. By accident I added tap water from my sink and as a result I have a massive outbreak of hair algae and cyanobacteria. I treated the tank before with chemi clean and not only did the cyanobacteria...

Hi all! For the past 2 weeks it seems like my tank is going downhill and I don't really have an explanation for it. A bunch of my torches are receeding/dead. My Scoly seems to be super shrunken into its skeleton. We have had a bunch of montis die after they seemed like they were doing fine. It...

Hello, I run a club teaching members how to maintain freshwater and saltwater tanks at my university. One of the tanks we have is a 13.5 gallon AIO Fluval saltwater tank. One of the members performed a water change by himself, but forgot to plug everything back in and has been unplugged for...

Hello Reefers, I have a 20g long tank and I'm loving it, my tank has been up and running since February of 2021. I've lost about three corals, a sand sifting star, three fish, and two emerald crabs since the start of my tank. I'm afraid I'm going to lose more of my corals, because of gha and...

Mistakes I learned my first year Reefing When I first started reefing I had hydrogen sulfide in my reef tank. I saved all but 1 fish by adding as much aeration as I could. I had Diatoms, Cyano, hair algae, bubble algae and now only have Aptasia How I solved hydrogen sulfide max out all pumps...