29 gallon saltwater with hob Marineland 350 filter
AI prime HD
Leather coral
Hammer coral
Zoa coral
And a couple other LPS
Pair of maroon clowns
Striped blenny
Black cardinal
Diamond goby
Tank is at 35 ppt and ~77F
Bought it used and tank was about 2 years old with the clowns. Kept the rock...
I did some tank maintenance yesterday and temporarily got rid of my frag rack, moving my coral frags on to the rocks in the mean time. This morning I woke up and noticed the frogspawn had not opened (not surprised or worried, it probably doesn't like its new spot), however I did notice what...
So I got home yesterday and noticed a little something extra growing on my emerald crab.
Is it aiptasia?
Is this normal?
Have yall seen this?
What should I do?
Blake Hamilton
I love the way that Emerald crabs look and I think they are pretty fascinating to watch. I’ve also read they are great for keeping algae in check. I just added two small ones into my 20 gallon cube tank and one of them IMMEDIATELY went to my blasto frag and started cleaning the base. In a ten...
*NEW* welcome to Malakai's Reef! i am the Father to this tank as it was sort of a gift to myself for a change of pace and a learning tool for my newborn child! starting this with him we have come to reef2reef many times for question tips and how too's and finally have one of our own!
12/22/2019...
I am having an issue with some of my Zoa frags being flat out devoured by something in my tanI while others go unmolested. The dastardly deed happens over the course of a 24 hour period and the only critter I ever see near them is a typical small CUC hermit or snail.
Could my PB tang or...
Ok so in my nano I have a pump pumping water into a refgium and than it over flows back into the tank. The pump failed and the refugium had a salinity of 1.036 by the time I noticed. I keep a zebra hermit in it to both survived and don’t seem stressed. The crab is there to help prevent algae...
I know plenty of you have them with no problems. I wasn't so lucky. I had one that loved to eat my SPS. I saw it going to town on a staghorn SPS frag the other night. I made a trap to try and catch it. Jar with small opening, baited with Mysis in a mesh pouch. The emerald could care less...