general advice

Hello all, I hope all of your weeks are off to a great start! My apologies if this is not allowed here/I posted on the wrong forum. I recently placed an order with @CoralsAnonymous, one of which contained a "medium colony" sized xenia. Now I know that there tends to be some discrepancy between...

So I’ve had my sdc xstream for a few Months and love the pump. But over the past few weeks every night the pump loses the custom programming I scheduled for it to run. As a result the wave maker drops to running at 8% and constant. I’m wondering if anyone’s having this same problem?

Hey guys! I have a 55gal tank with softies. I’m wanting to add some euphillya in the future, what steps should I take for my water chemistry to make sure they thrive? I have attached the results of my latest water test. Thanks!

So I’m not good at aquascaping and I’ll own that. What I have works meaning it’s allowing flow and fish safe habitats. However I want to add more coral and just feel like the current scaping won’t allow me too much creativity for that. Like there is to much empty space. To add to that I have...

Hey all! It’s my first post so hopefully I’m using this right. I have a 60 gallon reef tank- mostly softies- with nearly a dozen fish. I was looking for some midwater colorful fish I could add to the group. Here is what I currently have: 2- tomato clowns 3- blue green chromis 2- spot blenny...

Ok so my parameters are as follows…. Salinity 1.023 Alk 9.34 Cal 466 Phos .09 Ni 5 and I know that’s a little high Mag 1383 I just performed a 25% water change and added cheato two days ago but the brown dust is back, which I’m pretty sure is detritus? I have done 25% water changes and just...

Hey everyone, I have coralline algae growing on my front glass. I know that’s a good thing because my tank is mature and healthy but it’s also annoying because it’s so difficult to remove. My question is what would be the most effective way of removing it without an expensive blade or scraper...

Found someone on ebay selling chaeto for a good price the issue is he is shipping priority mail. How long could it last in a padded envelope? Would it be worth the risk with all the shipping delays?

Two weeks ago I made the worst mistake to date when it comes to my nano. I went to dose my iodine (Lugol's) and did 2 drops instead of one. Then I dose double the amount of trace elements. I had planned to do a 20% WC the following morning. It seemed to be too late. My zoas, green stars, lepto...

Hey folks! Fee free to skip down a ways if you want to get to my questions! so I started my reefing journey back in October 2020 with a 55 gallon peninsula tank. Fast forward a month and my husband gifted me a 130 gallon acrylic tank! Fast forward a few more months and I decided to tear down my...

Here is the story of how I prevented my reef tank from crashing during the TX winter storm a few weeks ago. It was truly a miracle that I managed to have such few losses considering what happened. This storm was completely unprecedented and there was really no way we Texans could’ve anticipated...

Hey, I recently had a problem in my tank. It’s about 7 weeks old but it was going really well and I couldn’t really tell what had happened. All my corals were open but after i did a 20% water change they all closed up and none have opened back up since then. I thought it might be that one of...

I just wanted a critic or some suggestions to get my water a little better. The LFS where it was tested said everything was good. So im looking for thoughts and advice. I posted a picture of the results.