This flatworm looking creature came off my lettuce nudibranch. I purchases this nudibranch about a month ago not really any problems with it until now. When I was checking the tank a lunch it looked as if it had laid eggs. About 3 hours later this thing has been moving around the tank. The...
Hi so I got the light and was wondering peoples experience with it and what you suggest height of the light on a standard 10g lid tank? There’s a plexiglass strip on the Lid as long as the tank and 4-6inches wide(or should I get rid of it ). Also what would u put the in intensity and light...
hey guys, I was just cleaning my tank when I spotted these weird things on the glass. There are 6 of them in a line and extremely small. I don't know what they are but I'm concerned. am i doomed? BTW this is a 6 week old tank and my first salt water tank. Any help is needed. Should i wipe them...
Ok everyone I’m in a bit of a situation and I can’t figure out what exactly to do. So I got 6 peppermint shrimp a while ago and wanted them to eat some of the aptasia in my tank but after 3 months they didn’t touch the stuff. I feed my tank heavily and noticed they took a liking to eating all...
Hey everybody, so I have had an aptaisa infestation for a while and decided to get peppermint shrimp I can’t rember if I got 4 or 6 but either way they weren’t eating the aptasia so I’m going to get Bertha nudbranchs. I have managed over the past week and a half to catch 4 shrimp I religiously...
Any input is appreciated. My cleaner wrasse has an open red sore. Idk what it is or what to do next. I don't want it to kill my tank if it is sick.
Can anyone identify this?
Thanks
I've just started my first reef tank and about 3 weeks into the cycle. I am now encountering a problem. there is brown filaments growing all over everything. Its growing over my Xenia and Macro algae's. My emerald crab seems to have taken some interest but is very slow. What should I do? PS no...
I’ve had two small mushrooms disappear, my LFS tested my water and parameters were in check but as I was doing a water change the other day I pulled an old/dead piece of my hammer head that had broken off of a large colony out of the tank to do alittle closer inspection. The picture is very...
Hi, I've recently just bought some of my first SPS corals. I used to have a bird nest frag but it got stung to death by my torch coral. The SPS corals I got today are A Mystic Sunset Montipora, A purple Stylopora and A Bali Green slimer (Acropora.) My Alkalinity is stable siting around 9, PH...
A Friend of mine bought it and no longer wanted the frag so I got it off of him. Problem is he doesn’t know what it is he said he got it 2 days ago and forgot what it was. The receipt. Doesn’t state what it is either. I think I narrowed it down to these 3 but don’t know. Any input would be...
I don't know what light I should get, I want to have softies and LPS. I would like to be able to keep most types of LPS in my tank. Can you help me find a light, under $125?
Getting ready to plumb this bad boy into existence. Any recommendations on return line nozzles, plumbing, or overall sump ideas, is appreciated!
I plan to place an Icecap ReefSump 36XL. Currently I have a trigger ruby 36. Not a big fan of it due to little space for the skimmer I need.
Also...
So a local guy is taking his tank down and I’m taking 10 chromis off him that look pretty big and he’s had for years he also has a yellow tang blue tang acheliesc tang ect. What I’m wondering is that is it worth it to QT the fish becuase my QT tank is only a 20gal
Hello all, I have a problem with my tank, 1 and a half year old 300L (80 gal), everything was going great for a few months when all of a sudden, my alk dipped under 5 dkh and corals didnt look good, obv. No3 also dipped to 0 from 10... In an attempt to save it from this situation i did a 50%...
This glitter bomb Goni was super happy for the first few months , then closed completely a few days ago and is slowly re-opening with bent , hook shape , polyps
It is not fully opened (about 60-70%) I am just wondering if any of you guys have encountered this before and know what causes it ...
Ok so I currently have it where at night my ph is a constant 8 but during the day it rides to 8.16 is this bad for sps growth? I’m trying to dial in my oh and am curious if other have similar situations like me where they let it ambiently during the day rise and at night keep it at a constant...
Recently I’ve had some bad bleaching events and I’ve filled off a lot of the reasons why corals could of bleached but I need help with one more! Dose this schedule for kalk dosing look like it’s working becuase I’m not 100% sure that’s I’ve been actually dosing kalk from my reactor into the tank!
Got a new aquatic life hybrid light, 48” with 4 t5 bulbs and 2 radions xr15. What’s the best bulb combo/radion setting / timings on radions being on and t5s being on to maximize sps growth?
Hello, I just got this new blue hippo tang 3 days ago and tonight I noticed these white spots on him. What are they are they just stress spots or ick? And what should I do? Pls help the water parameters are perfect btw. I just separated him from a clown tang that would attack him
We got a blue hippo yesterday along with some other tank mates. Everyone went off and hid right away. Hippo didn’t survive the night. I think the bump is sand from when I scooped it out but the marks above his fin are those signs of it having been attacked?
Hey everyone so i saw a “decorator snail” at my lfs and went home to do research on it just to find out it’s actaully a carrier snail.anyways after research for about a week I went back and got the snail during my research I’ve realized there little to no documentation of these guys in the reef...
Hello, I am new here and hope I can get some help.
I recently got a new Valentini puffer on Friday August 4 and she hasn’t eaten. It is now Tuesday August 8 so she hasn’t eaten in 4 days.
I have tried giving her mysis shrimp, clams, squid. She doesn’t even nibble at the food, I’ll drop bits of...