advice please

I have a 30 gallon setup that will eventually go into a 150 gallon next year. I have a basic ni crew light, a heater, a fluval canister filter (no sump) a hang on back oase protein skimmer, a fluval uv light that connects too my filter, a auto top of system, auto feeder, 2 wave makers, carib sea...

Spent around 6 weeks cycling the tank and just added the clowns yesterday and they seem to be doing great and took to the tank almost right away. Whats else is in there is: 5 blue leg hermits; 2 trochus snails; 1 green star polyp coral. Everything seems to be going really good on day 2 so far...

Hey all! Looking for some advice here as I haven't really found consistent answers in other threads I've been checking out. Today is May 15 and by the end of June I will be moving to a new place. I'm taking this opportunity to upgrade my tank and have some questions about the process and...

Hi all, after years of looking in from the outside I’m finally in a place financially where I feel comfortable jumping into reef keeping. There’s only one issue and that is that there is a high probability that I will be moving in June of 2025. My question: Is it worth buying all of the...

Hi, I hope you are all having a fantastic day! I just purchased this beautiful Hammer/Frogspawn coral that has 5 of them attached to 1 frag! Incredible! After acclimated, I pit him in this corner and was hoping to seek the advice about the flow, too much, too little, or just right? I have...

Hello, I have always been using api testers and then upgraded to salifert. But I want to get a phosphate Hannah checkers. But on BRS they have 3 kind which are phosphate ultra low range PPM then the. Phosphate low range colorimeter, and the last one phosphorus ultra low range. I want to know...

Hey Folks, I need some experienced advice here. So before I start, my system is 240 G but spread across four units - a full-blown 40G refugium (also naughty fish habitat), two displays 1 - 150 and a second 55, and a sump. Everything is growing and happy. I have been thinking of upgrading and...

I am new to the reef hobby but have been planning on a reef aquarium for many years. I started building a very large aquarium years ago but needed to move on (literally). I now realize that size tank would have been ridiculously impossible to keep up with… let alone afford! I am ready to...

I mocked everything up and liked the look of it, the tank had water in the tank already so when I put the rocks in, and then the sand. It was Super cloudy, so I couldn't see the end result until the next day when the water cleared up. In the picture it's still a little cloudy, only because i...

Hey guys so I’ve had this CC for about a month now and I realized that the mouth part looks like it’s sinking a lot. Is this a problem? If so how do I deal with it? I think there’s some skeleton starting to show as well

Some clove polyps hitchhiked into my tank somehow. They are isolated to a small are about the size of a half dollar on a movable top rock. I have contulinously removed them by removing the rock and brushing them off with a toothbrush destroying the polyps under running water. I don’t do this in...

Calling all Copepod culturing experts! I have done some research and I want to start culturing copepods, not only to feed my fish but also just to challenge myself and try something new that won’t break the bank. I want to culture them from the beginning so including culturing phytoplankton by...

Hi, I am new here. I am trying to get started with a fresh water tank but only looking to do real plants. I will be getting a 20 or 25 gallon tank. Any help would be appreciated. I am going to have a beta & shrimp I do know that. Need help with also tank mate ideas. Any help anyone could give...

Already added: 2x Baby ocellarus clownfish 1x Skunk cleaner shrimp 5x nassarius snails 2x cheeky hitchhiker porcelain crabs 1x turbo snail 1x small BTA Fish plans: I still need help deciding what other small fish I should add seeing as I removed the Yasha hase goby from the list because I...

Just wondering if this is the correct amount of tissue on my torches skeleton or if it is experiencing tissue recession. It’s fully open and happy in the daylight. It’s slowly split from one head to around 5 now. Does the tissue look like it thins out as new heads grow? Photo in blues and...

This is an urgent emergency there are tiny saltwater ghost shrimp and I cant go back to let them free for a while, I need to know how to keep them alive and raise them. I have not found anything on the web about what to feed new saltwater ghost shrimp, it is all about freshwater ghost shrimp. I...

My dad just got back from florida with around 5-6 lbs of Gracilia Marco algea. If I quarantine this stuff and only use a small piece is it ok to use in my reef tanks and to pass along to friends? I’ve never taken anything from the ocean before.

This is going to be a really stupid question but as my candy canes split should they tissue cover the entire skeleton or just about an inch below each head? They’re around 50 heads now and the tissue doesn’t cover anything but between heads that are close together and about an inch below each...

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...

Hi everyone new member from the uk so after many years of wanting a reef tank I finally got a red sea reefer 425 delux tank has been running for 5 weeks now.has 30 kg tmc eco reef 64kg mix of caribsea pink Fiji and arag alive Bahamas used atm colony my question is after 2 weeks my lsf suggested...

So I posted this in SPS and butchered the title. But I am wondering if my new rainbow monti will grow ok on the back wall of my biocube 16 LED? I have it setting on my lower rocks right now so it can adjust to my lighting.

Hi I’m relatively new to marine tanks. I’ve kept small all in ones before but now I want to move into a large scale. I don’t like the style of many marine tanks and have came across the Juwel Vision 260 Marine Aquarium, I’m also considering the size up (450). I really love the curvature of it...

So I’m selling some toadstool frags and by necessity they’re small. Is 15$ too much to ask for a Tyree Green frag? I really want to be fair to my buyers. Also this is the first time I fragged it so I’m guaranteeing life for a week after they pickup from me. I feel like these are small but mine...

Can I frag a tyree green toadstool in my tank or will it hurt anything? It’s not absolutely massive but it’s running out of room and needs to be fragged.

Hi all, I’m in need of some help with an algae/detritus issue I’ve had in my 125 gallon tank for over a year now. I’ve tried many things such as manual removal, scraping the rock with a toothbrush, flux rx and seachem pristine however nothing seems to get rid of it. The algae/detritus can be...