husbandry

I'm not writing this in the NPS section because I'm hoping to stir up some interest in the wider reefing community. Nearly all general advice you find online about filtration, feeding, and nutrient reduction assumes you won't ever be keeping any NPS corals. The assumption behind most reefing...

Hi all, This post is me being selfish and wanting some advice on how to get better practices on my husbandry and overall more knowledge on this wonderful hobby we all love. I’ll be going over my lighting, parameters, equipment, water change process, and livestock I have in my 20g long nano...

Hello, I am new to reefing and being overwhelmed with the amount of info on which corals can sit next to which and what light and flow each need. Should have done a lot more thinking while I was building my scape. I would like to have a mixed reef with softies, LPS, and eventually SPS. Here...

Over the course of my 5 years in the saltwater side of the hobby, I have had my fair share of fights with everything from parasites, to nuisance dinoflagellates/cyano/algae. I can say my current system has been clean and running beautifully for awhile now, and I haven't had a run in with Dino in...

We just lost a montipora stellata the other day, and I'm starting to wonder if our track record is starting to look uglier than the average hobbyist. Weve got about 30 - 40 some odd corals in the tank. So far, we have killed: Red Planet Acro - Spent a lot of time in the air on the way home...

Well... I woke up this morning and started getting ready to feed my tank. as usual my shrimp and brittle star we’re already looking for food. Normally my star will slide along the bottom and my elegance and other torches don’t react. This time my elegance decided to obliterate my star. The...

R2R has alllllll kinds of opinions I'm opening up my husbandry skills to be discussed, debated and challenged. I'm a big boy and can take constructive criticism Tank 6ft 180g, sump in basement 100g rubbermaid. 5 diff species of tangs, mostly zoas/palys dominate, 200lbs of large LR. Tanks been...

What's your thoughts on keeping SPS without doing WC religiously (say once every 3 months) and keeping the trace elements (Basic 3: Mg, Alk & Ca) via dosing and No3 export via heavy skim (carbon dose)? Has someone done this in the past for whatever reason it maybe (perhaps lack of time)? The...

Is "Going Slow" the most controversial reefing topic? I could be wrong, but I presume everyone has heard the old reefer's motto: "Nothing good happens fast in a reef tank." I don't know who said it first, but they were dead on. So how is it that, regardless of experience or circumstance, we...

Due to time constraints, I've fallen so far behind on my usual 20% (20 gallon) water changes that I've decided to re-adopt a water change strategy that worked well before, but requires smaller chunks of time to pull off. I'll be doing 5 gallons a day - which is only 5% - but it'll still give me...