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  1. keb10d

    Button Coral White Substance?

    Any idea what’s going on here?! Doughnut button coral.. woke up with a white goo substance on it..
  2. Mnmbrix

    Benny the Starry Blenny. Ich?

    Hi Everyone! We just got this guy a week ago and I love him so much. Worried he may have Ich. Any thoughts? He’s healthy and seems active and happy. Eats well. But he dive bombs and rolls in the sand sometimes. Thought he was playing but not sure.
  3. R

    Found what looks to be a zoanthid eating spider in tank

    I just recieved a zoanthid frag from aquasd 2 days ago which is what im assuming this came from and i just found this today on one of its polyps. I have only seen one so far and i checked the 3 of my zoanthid frags which have been doing fine but what im wondering is if they stay solely near and...
  4. Phoerut

    EMERGENCY Fit rot on royal gramma

    Okay so I’ve just upgraded my mixed reef tank from a fluval nano to a 170 I quarantined the fish for 5 days before over loaded the power in my house 3 times!! So I moved the fish over. 5 days the fish had some suspicious looking marks on the fins. Today i the tail is completely shredded, red...
  5. W

    EMERGENCY High phosphate, water changes and gfo aren’t working

    Hi all, was wondering if anyone could share any tips on how they remove phosphates from their evo’s? I’m currently sitting at 0.21ppm! I’m running a table spoon of rowaphos in chamber 1 and doing 10% weekly water changes with ro/di water from my lfs which tested 0.02ppm for phosphate...
  6. I

    Fiji live rock

    I am thinking of buying some live rock from a lfs that came straight from the Fiji ocean. I have 2 clowns 2 zoa frags and some Xenia and my clean up crew. Would the possible hitcchhikers pose a threat to any of my current animals? Also what are some things people have got from Fiji rock?
  7. corinateut

    New to me

    Hello everyone, thank you for having me here! My name is Corina and I’m a 100% beginner Let me tell you little about my journey. As a little child I had a freshwater tank, and that was back in my county (Romania). So 0 information about saltwater! Now living in UK London. After Christmas me...
  8. Kuhn

    Derasa clam gaping?

    Hello! I'm a new clam dad and I recently picked up this Derasa clam about 3 days ago. I love this thing to pieces but I noticed its Incurrent Siphon has been gaping the past two days... I've been watching it like a hawk to make sure it didn't show any other signs of unhappiness but I can't...
  9. Rham1281

    Are these zoas?

    I got these from my LFS and they look like the have a zoa-like polyp, but they're quite tall. Any thoughts?
  10. B

    Clownfish in need of Help! **Desperate!**

    We have a 29g bio cube reef tank that is 7 months old, and seemingly only able to keep gobies alive. My parameters are stable and have been for a while. Tests today read- Amon- 0 N02-0 N03-10 P04- 1.0 PH- 7.8 Sal- 1.026 It’s got a 75 gallon filter on it with a good media...
  11. Zoa_Fanatic

    Torch head tissue

    Just wondering if this is the correct amount of tissue on my torches skeleton or if it is experiencing tissue recession. It’s fully open and happy in the daylight. It’s slowly split from one head to around 5 now. Does the tissue look like it thins out as new heads grow? Photo in blues and...
  12. C

    House fire help

    I just took backup tank, filter, water, liverock, heater, powerhead, rodi, a little salt and most livestock (rip leopard wrasse) could not dig her up. let me know whatever help you can think of and If there is anything I couldn’t think of, my mind isn’t 100%.
  13. R

    Torch coral shrinking spontaneously then having mouth open

    My torch coral here has been doing fine ever since i got it around a month ago and then all of a sudden i noticed that it was almost completly shrunk (coudlnt get a photo of that started freakign out). After a minute or two it started to open again but the tentacles were very small and the mouth...
  14. C

    Blue worm/ shrimp looking thing

    Cleaned out my HOB filter today and found this guy on the filter. Never seen anything like it before. Currently the tank has a six line wrasse, a diamond goby, and a couple hermit crabs. Tank is 29g also, any idea of what it could be?
  15. R

    Hello Bubble magus dosing pump

    I just got a 7 stage dosing pump just to be overkill now I’m stuck thinking what I should put in it anyone have any suggestions on what I should put through it?
  16. Rham1281

    Creature ID

    I've got a 10 gallon frag tank that's been up and running for nearly 2 months now. Inside are just some basic softies: GSP, Eagle Eye ZoaK, Kenya Tree, and a few others. I added some new coral from my LFS a couple days ago and now this little blobish critter is cruising around my glass. I had...
  17. Cole_Voeller

    Fish Flashing

    Hello all, So in one of my tanks, I have two fish who I have seen flash: a blenny and a fang blenny. A while back my tanks got ich (Very visible ich too), and all fish were flashing like crazy and I quarantined all fish. All fish underwent 30 days of copper, and then an additional 60 days of...
  18. ChuckTownReefer

    What kinda NUDIBRANCH is this? How BAD is this??

    Found this nudi just walking around on the side of the tank. I have put Berghia nudibranch in the system like 7 months ago but it really doesn't have the same colors as a Berghia nudibranch does. This one has red and a brownish body. I don't see any bit marks on anything just went through and...
  19. T

    Vacant reef tank suddenly full of worms

    My tank was taken down by a parasite, and after losing all my fish, I let it sit for a few months. No, I’m looking to get back in. I need to do some major maintenance. As I am beginning to clean and replace the water, I’ve noticed my tank is now infested with some strange worms. Should I...
  20. vaguelyreeflike

    Talk me through fragging Favites and Porites!

    These are what I have to work with. I do not want to sell these frags without keeping some of them. How can I go about fragging these off the plugs? we dont have a band saw or a dremel, i have a collection of different metal cutters that we use for fragging euphyllias but dont know how well it...
  21. B

    Is my birdsnest dying?

    Is this RTN? I got this coral frag for free and I'm not too knowledgeable about keeping sps coral. What does this look like to you? I have .08 phos 5 nitrate 8.4 dkh 8.2 ph idk my calc or mag unfortunately Redsea blue bucket salt 1 foxface 2 clowns 1 neon goby 1 YWG and pistol shrimp combo 1...
  22. C

    EMERGENCY Torch coral losing tentacles

    I’ve tried FB and looking online but can’t seem to find my exact issue…my torch’s and elegance are long time happy residents. Up until the last 2…3…weeks. I was bringing my tank back up from 0.0 nitrate and 0.02 phosphate (now 6.0 and .04) However over the last few weeks I’ve noticed my torch’s...
  23. chemicals

    Mysterious snail deaths and behaviour

    Hi all, Currently dealing with such a frustrating phenomenon. Two months ago one of my trochus snails started flipping itself on purpose. Even if I put it right again, after 5 minutes it flipped itself upside down again. Apparently this has been reported but no real explanation/cause has been...
  24. sackles

    URCHIN help!

    Afternoon ladies and gents, I purchsed a urchin today as part of my CUC but i have a problem, "he" seems to have lodged himself in a hole in my rock and i cant get him out, common sense says he walked in he can walk out, but what if he gets stuck?
  25. Pelagikos

    HELP! FILTER LEFT OFF FOR HOURS!

    I have an AIO mixed reef with fish by Waterbox. 50.3g. I turned the filter off last night at about 8:00 p.m. to feed and dose phyto. ...woke up this morning to a cloudy tank... Only then to realize that the filter had been left off all night! 12+ hours. Somehow temperature is still reading 78...
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