emergency

My coral has been doing really bad as of lately. Some have bleached and others have died. As for the past year I haven’t had many fish only 1 clown in a 60 gallon. The nitrates have been at 0 for the pst couple months and everything else seems pretty normal. I haven’t changed my lighting in a...

hi everybodies, so i finally have the time to raise my fish and here goes. my larval tank is about 3liters, it’s a black bucket with a bubbler so i’m raising neon gobies here’s a time line -fish hatches -i do a minor water change -i buy more rotifers for backup and put them into the tank - i...

So our greedy Lionfish stole a piece of shrimp meant for the puffer and was too big for him. (Lion is only 2” long) it’s been stuck half in his mouth for a half hour and he looks distressed like he can’t swallow it or spit it out. The piece is about the size of his head and it doesn’t seem like...

Hi guys, bad news. One of my Holy Grail torches seems to be deteriorating. His head has almost fully detached and all of his internal filaments are visible. This is the third torch in the same amount of days to do this, there is no sign of brown slime? Searching brown slime disease just brings...

Hi everyone. I have got terrible news that my house needs to be tented and fumigated. There is no other way around it. I asked if it can be sprayed but the infestation is so bad they need to tent. I have a 32 g tank right now and decided to buy a 15 g tank to house my livestock while the...

Hello All! My new bta has been in my tank for 4 days now and it appeared ok for the first 2 or 3 days, but today it's not looking too hot. It has these big white lips, around its mouth and there is pinkish purple stuff coming out of it. I hope it's not zooxanthellae :( If someone could help me...

Hello friends, Last night during a water change we noticed a leak coming from the return tubing on our 160 gal mixed reef tank in our school. When we took a look, it was actually coming from the tank-bulkhead connection. We were able to wiggle it for it to stop leaking, but of course we want to...

Hi, I got a pair of clownfish from my LFS about 2 weeks ago and both seemed healthy. They spent some time in an acclimation box in my main tank and then went into their own tank 9 days ago. I've been feeding them pretty regularly and all seemed well, but the last time I saw the little one eat...

I've had my apex set up auto dosing for a while, today when getting back from the store I noticed it was running, it dumped a whole liter bottle of alkalnity red sea solution into my tank. Thoughts? I can not even get it to turn off, the pump is just continuously running. It is scheduled to...

Hello. I'm having an ich outbreak in my 20g DT. I have no quarantine tank, but I could throw together a Home Depot bucket with a heater and filter if I need to. A month ago, my royal gramma came down with ich. it was my first ever SW fish and I was devastated. I removed it and placed it in a 5g...

I have had 2 clowns that have been a bonded pair for almost a year. This one that was exhibiting signs of dominance until recently, and I assumed was the female, has now been obsessing over the powerheads the last few weeks and yesterday she was fine minus a LITTLE fin fraying. Now her fins are...

I recently got a small frag of a greenish toadstool leather (it was in the bargain bin and I don’t know the specifics on species, coloration, polyp length, if it’s even actually a toadstool, etc.) and after the first few days with it extending remarkably tiny and short polyps, it now has gone...

I just got this puffer in the mail today, the bag had hardly any air in it so I tried to work fast. I floated him for about 10 min and drip acclimated him for I’d say 45min doubling the water volume twice. I did not net him or remove him from the water he did not puff up at all. He was swimming...

Sorry for posting about freshwater here but this is the only forum I have and I need to go to work in the next 10 minutes. Two days ago I noticed a fish that I believe just had babies swimming oddly and sort of spinning top to bottom either near the bottom of with it's head in the substrate...

My powder brown tang took an extra day to arrive and was very close to death. Water was freezing and some damsels that were also in the package were DOA. I got the temp up slowly for the tang and then began drip acclimating (water he was in had almost no alkalinity - my guess is dissolved CO2...

This guy suddenly died about 5 minutes ago. He looked awesome until just randomly looking like this since, he has become much mote pale. He’s already gone, just wondering.

Please help my skimmer was working fine for a while and out of nowhere makes microbubbles and overflows and I have it set on the lowest setting and I also haven’t added anything to effect the skimmer... I took it out cleaned it made sure nothing was in the pump and it’s still overflowing like crazy

I have some fish issues and need help diagnosing so I can treat the fish. For the last 2 - 3 weeks I have noticed my sharknose goby constantly nipping at the side of my yellow tang. From my research I understand they are either cleaner fish mimics or actually eat parasites. Either way about 2...

Hello! I recently purchased a montipora capricornis online and it has undertaken some serious damage. At first I thought it was bleaching but I don’t think that’s the case as the other corals I have, including 2 other montis of different species, are doing just fine. Perhaps something is eating...

Tiny white dots on him, no scratching, and lethargic, and bumps seems to have emerged over the past few days, only visible on fins, but now all over body doesn’t really look like ich, no signs on other fish except a clown who is a little lethargic

I have a new tank I put together a few months ago and recently put in 2 new clownfish. I got them from liveaquaria ORA and they've seemed to do pretty well. I had a makeshift QT where I just observed and treated with Prazipro and Metroplex for the recommended times (about 2 weeks total) and put...

I was gone for the day working a 15 hr shift and when I cam home I found my new 1 week old pre-quarantined goby on the floor in front of the tank. He was very dry, but twitched when I picked him up, so I got him in a bowl of the DT water immediately. He had cat hair stuck to him, so I pulled it...

His guys, I just picked up a mated pair of Coral Banded shrimp from my LFS, and they were fine when being acclimated in a bucket. After being drip acclimated for a few hours, I released them into my DT tank (80gallon), and they each swam off to a different corner of the tank. When the met in the...

Hi all, I have used reef2reef for my saltwater aquarium issues and I know you guys are very helpful. Does anyone know why Ph in an African Cichlid tank would drop from 7.8 to 6.6 within a few days. I didn't change anything other than doing a water change. I use well-water that is normally...

Hey guys, today i bought a pair of bumble bee shrimp and i noticed one has a parasite. I don't know much about this parasite, if its lethal, if it goes away on its own or if its treatable. Any information would be helpful, thanks.