#reefsquad

First time posting, so please direct me to the correct forum if this is not the place. I have a 9 year old mated female clownfish who has spawn many clutches over the last 2 years. Now she has what looks like lock-jaw for the last 3 weeks and I wonder if her aging is what is causing this. I can...

On January 28th I purchased a 30 gallon hexagon tank off facebook. It looked so extremely sad, seller said he's take $75 and I figured why not. I assumed all the trumpets were dead but one head was still alive, barely! I gave the tank a decent clean and did an 80% water change the night I...

I have a nano reef (Fluval Evo 13.5gal) setup going on a little over 3 months now. I've managed to get past the diatom bloom, and a case of dinos followed by cyano. The worst of the ugly stage seems to have passed. My question is about ongoing water changes, and maintaining at least some low...

Greetings, all. I've been reading the forums, watching YouTube videos especially the BRS research related ones, for a number of months and finally took the plunge and set up a new Fluval 13.5 tank on July 15th, 2022. The plan is to just keep minimal fish, and soft corals. As background, I used...

Hello! New to reefing here and trying to get my quarantine tank ready for fish but I cant seem to get my Nitrates down! Been running for about a week now; used fishless fuel as my ammonia source and twice the recommended dose of Turbo start on Day 1; after temp and salinity were achieved. 24...

I have a 2 year old Black Oscellaris that has been swimming with its head down toward the bottom and is breathing slightly heavy and has isolated itself from the others (1 2 year old black and 2 juvenile regular) since I cleaned all the dino slime off my rocks which stirred things up a bit all...

Ok so I have a 250 gallon fowler tank I've always had high nitrates tank has been up for 3 years. I started running with a bashsea bio pellet reactor in the middle of October I added 1 cup the first week another cup a week later the 2 more. I haven't seen any drops in nitrates. The tank has been...

recently got a blue spotted puffer(Canthigaster solandr,i think) (, no sign of ich when i got him (12/23) until today 12/28. from what i know/read puffer dont do well with copper but I might take that risk unless i can get some more opinions/help. I believe he got ich from stress? i know puffer...

Hey everyone, I have recently added a second fire shrimp to a 85 gal system with plenty of rock work and I didn’t see the new little guy for 2-3 days after adding to tank. Yesterday I finally saw him and noticed he was missing some legs one of his claws and most antennae (I’ve attached pictures...

Ok so here is my situation I had about 175 lbs of old pukani rock and it had a lot of algae on it bought it of of fb market place. So I decided to bleach it I used 3 gallons of regular bleach and about a half to 3/4 no spill bleach. I saw the water foaming I rinsed a bunch of times just letting...

Is this cyanobacteria I did two back to back treatments of cyanobacteria no improvement any suggestions?

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Okay so, my tank is about 5 days old but it came with live rock, live sand and 2 corals which r doing fine. Now someone gave me an offer which I think is a very good deal but I'm not sure if I can add fish yet, ( I've been using bacteria in a bottle ). The offer he gave me is : 1 firefish 1...

Can anybody tell me why is it that when my tank get really dirty and I scrub the glass off and blow off the rocks my acro frags die every single time. The frags will look great the entire time until I clean the tank... This very turbid water the cleaning creates clearly ticks them off to the...

After reading a bunch, I recently took the plunge into collecting what I need for a FOWLR tank. I've had freshwater tanks, but this will be my first SW tank. Some day I might upgrade to a reef tank, but for now I want to focus on the basics of keeping fish alive. I have a 37-gallon column tank...

Hello, Not sure what this is and its all over!! 250 gallon fish only Nitrate 25ppm Alkalinity 9.5 Salinity 1.026 Phosphate .08 It does blow right off the rocks

Hello, Not sure what this is and its all over!! 250 gallon fish only Nitrate 25ppm Alkalinity 9.5 Salinity 1.026 Phosphate .08

Hello, Not sure what this is and its all over!! 250 gallon fish only Nitrate 25ppm Alkalinity 9.5 Salinity 1.026 Phosphate .08

I recently added a bunch of coral and dipped with coral RX I'm not sure what this is or if its harmful thanks in advance

I received my new GBTA yesterday, and after acclimating, put him in a nice little glass container on the wall of my DT where my clowns have been hosting my ammonia alert. They were immediately interested, and then they started picking at his mouth. I read on other threads that's petty normal...

Anyone have an idea what these white fibers/strands/hairs are on my frogspawn coral? I can't tell if it's coming FROM the coral or if it's just wrapped around. I can say though that it's gotten more pronounced and it is moving onto/attaching to the rock as you can see. The coral itself is always...

My system is a Red Sea Max E-170. I have installed the sump upgrade kit. My question is how to balance the pumps: the one in the rear sump and the one in the undertank sump. I want a tank turnover of about 18 times per hour with our seahorses, so with our tank volume the pump should be about...

Hello, I'm new to reefing and I currently have a 20g Red Sea Max Nano with corals and a neon blue goby. I'm looking to add two more fish and was debating on getting two Ocellaris Clownfish (not necessarily a breeding pair - just two juveniles). I've heard as they mature, clownfish get aggressive...

Hi All, I am hoping I can get some help with my green bubble tip anemone. I have only had it for 2 weeks. From the start, the anemone would inflate and deflate several times throughout the day. I wasn’t too concerned as it would usually inflate within an hour or so. In the last couple days...