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So i've had STN come and go and come back again over a six month period. Im like 90% sure it bad bacteria because the only swings I've had was an ALK. drop -0.7 one day and left ATO off another day and Sal. went up to 1.026.5. my tank is full of frags and its only effecting my birdsnest: STN...

Hi there, I just checked my parameters and my alk and calcium are both very low: Alk ~5 dKH Calc ~350 I measured both with Hanna Checker. I ordered some all-for-reef to get into dosing but can I also just add a bit more the first several days to get around 8 dKH en 450 calc? After I get to that...

Hello all. #reefsquad I have a pretty new system with juvenile fish. I have a 150g DT with 2 Vlamingii (will remove soon) 1 Pacific sailfin tang, a regal tang and 2 lawnmover blennies (which are so graceful to watch) my lfs has a new stock, he has a couple of tangs that interests me such as...

Howdy y'all! It has been a hot minute since I have posted on here in awhile. Life has been busy with my new transfer to my new University - Texas A&M. Howdy all fellow ags!! I just transferred over this semester after my freshman year at my local college in New Jersey. I joined the Corps of...

Hello! I received a Dejardini Tang the other day from someone who could no longer take care of it. However when I received it, it was in terrible shape. It looks like it has HLLE and I’m not sure if it has tail rot as it was previously housed with a porcupine puffer. I also can’t tell if there...

Hi guys, it's been a while. I did a water change yesterday approx 15% and everything looked perfect until today when my partner sent me a photo of my prized catalaphyllia which appears to be detaching from the base, iv had this animal for around 12months and I feel like crying. As you can see in...

I just moved my livestock to a new tank, and when I picked up my big hammer colony for the first time in months it had these dark worms and white spongey stuff all over the base. What is it? Is it harmful? I see some of the same white on another hammer. What is it?

These showed up today and I’m not sure what it is. He is still eating like a pig and seems fine. It lives with a yellow eye kole tang which could have gotten him or it could be some kind of disease or infection I’m not sure.

My display tank has ick and so far one clown and the 2 tangs have it. The clownfish is also listing fin color a is developing brow stops on it any advice? The only medication I have is ParaGuard from seachem.

I'm planning on getting into saltwater, for 3 creatures in particular: The golden dwarf moray, the skunk cleaner shrimp, and the blood red fire shrimp. I want to make a reef tank out of a 32.5 gallon fluval flex (apparentally the light grows all of the easy tentacled corals that i love) and am...

Hi all. I have a 150g DT and a 75g sump (which I maintain at 35g) my DT has three fishes, a couple juvenile Vlamingii and a juvenile Hippo tang. Tank salinity is 1.021. I plan to start reefing in 6 months time so I would like to gradually increase the salinity to 1.023/4 for my fish to get...

this machine is called the Waterlink. All my local fish stores have it. I would like for someone to help me unpack this ans tell me what is too high, and what is too low. What is just right. I have a full softie tank Some of these numbers they divide to get the actual ppm. Like alkalinity i...

I'm about to get hit by hurricane Ian, is the ecotech power backup only for ecotech pumps or is it universal??? I know I can build one cheap but I don't have time to.

Hello. On my wave maker, when I set it to the pulse function the motor will spin 1 or 2 times and then it will stop working. It works on constant mode. Any suggestions

Hello, recently i noticed my frag tank being off. Stuff didn't look open, didn't look happy. Everything looks depressed as i could say. I do water changes weekly. 10% 40 gallon frag tank + about a 10-15 gallon sump. I went to the fish store to get my water tested and could not happen to get to...

Hi all, i live in india and i've just started setting up a 150g DT and a 75g sump. ive added live sand and art rock in the main dt with two wave makers and an ato. my sump consists of a one cove i-200 internal protein skimmer, a media reactor, an algae reactor, a bubble magus roller filter, some...

i added some green chromis stupidly to my tank without quarantine and my coral beauty angel randomly died i didnt take a picture of the body but she had a very apparent wound running from the top of her head down to her front bottom fins, it was a perfectly straight wound. ive been reading it...

my lyretail antias is refusing food and wont do anything but lay on sand or swim in a stationary position behind the return pump in my tank, she has been here for two days now we dripped for 1 1/2 hours salinity is 1.025 and tank mates are as follows two baby cinnamon clowns about a inch long...

Hey guys so i was inspecting my aquarium on lights of i went to grab my flashlight and i hit the outside corner of my aquarium with it a cause a little internal chip if i pass my finger across it i cant feel a thing On the front ints 1/4 inch long by 2/16 wide and goes 2/16 deep the glass has a...

Just tested alkalinity and it’s at 14.3 should I do a water change to bring it down?

[Little bit of info/background]: I had this 16g tank running, empty, for months. It never had lights on, only sunlight, and I thought it was cycled based on the ammonia/nitrate being none or low. A couple weeks ago my poor clown was dying and I tried to save him, so I put him in this tank (the...

So I recently upgraded to a aquanight 30w A029 2nd gen light for my 20 gallon tank,, however the sunrise/sunset feature dose not appear to be working (although the light was bought brand new) I’m just wondering how important the sunrise/sunset feature is as appose to just turning it on and off...

hey guys i need help with my gsp ive had my gsp for about 2 years and it was doing great spreading in my tank and everything but for the past 4/5 months it hasnt been the same not fully extending when its open and it is not half of once it was can anyone help me figure it out my calcium is 550 i...