crack. damned it I love this tank... going to the pet store to buy a temp before it let's go and floods my house...

The study was on Pocillopora damicornis, a bleached coral put against a healthy one for 4 days healed within weeks. The test was on frags from the same colony.

Work in progress 👀👀👀

Dosed Reef Flux, how long before I notice the algae turning grey? The picture doesn't show much.. but mainly on the upper rockwork around the SPS.

It has been a week and no changes, is it safe to dose more?

gonio is around 2 months in my tank and the clowns are 6 days in.

usually after lights out (this is ambience light from the living room) the gonio did not retracted as bald as this but today after work i found them rubbing and wiggling really close onto the gonio ball.

do they eventually will kill my gonio? anyone have experience?

Did a fair amount of rearranging, and added some awesome new corals:

- Acropora (fingers crossed it likes my tank)

- Leptastrea

- Leptoseris

- Pavona

And yes, I’m being weird and have a chalice and a pachyseris affixed to the back wall. 😂

Just filled my first nano tank and I’m so happy to start cycling, water is still a bit cloudy and I’m not sure about the water level in the display/sump but yay at least I started

everyone loves when i dose phytofeast

So hard to get a good photo and of course half of them started closing when I switched the lights to get a picture.

11 varieties of Zoa/Paly in this tank alone. I think I have 14 between all my tanks but this one became the dedicated Zoa garden.

Thoughts on my attempt at a diy stand for my tank plus sump? Still haven’t sanded or painted. Took me WAY longer than I expected 😭

I have already posted in R2R but posting here too for reach because I’m pulling my hair out trying to id and deal with these suckers.

I’ve tried a three day blackout didn’t work.
I’ve tried running UV sterilizer for weeks. didnt work.
tried siphoning them out and removing them…. hasn’t worked.

There’s no bubbles in the display. It’s not really stringy. It’s hanging out on the sand bed and on the lower part of my rocks and it stays there pretty much 24/7 it doesn’t really go away.

Any ideas?

DISCLAIMER: I’m not complaining. I know this is part of the hobby. I’m still learning, as is everyone in the hobby, please don’t yell at me (I’m more fragile than a Red Sea seam)

Got this frag the other day and noticed what I had thought was algea on the frag. Did my usual dip and crap of crud off the frag and though I got these little things. Low and behold... theyve popped out of hiding again and it kinda looks like there's more. They look like little feather duster worms to me but id love to hear thoughts.

Nervous I've introduced a pest from a ineffective dip.

Edit: thanks for the quick responses. Consensus was hydriods so I pulled the frag out and scraped and rinsed it off in another bucket. Cheers.

I cant get a straight answer on Google. I have since moved my tank around and there is a large one almost touching my frogspawn. Im not sure if I should remove it or move the spawn

I added this nem to my tank over a week ago now. Originally placed him just underneath the large plate on the left of my scape where I thought he could put his foot and get a good amount of light without too much flow, fully expecting that he would move and find himself a new spot.

He’s been floating round the tank now for over a week. My concern is that he keeps ending up in areas of low flow and can’t move back out of there since there’s no rock for him to grip onto, only sand.

Any advice on what I should do? I could try placing him again but he always moves anyway

It’s been a fragging kind of week for us to list on our site and make room in our main displays.

Have been spending some time growing out and organizing some colorful frags lately, and I’m loving how these are turning out! 🪸💚💜 Always fun seeing what pops under the reef lights.

I guess you could say I’m just goni with the flow while my Acro obsession keeps branching out! 🤣

What are everyone’s personal favorites in the reef tank world? Are you team Acro, Goni, zoas, euphyllia, mushrooms, or something totally different? Always love seeing what everyone else is obsessed with! 🐠

I came home after a long weekend and noticed about 25% of a small patch of zoas was gone (maybe 10 polyps).

There was a scheduled electrical works for one of the days i was away for 4-6 hours, i'd just assumed it was an adverse reaction (tank is 20g) to that and they'd melted.

Later this week i noticed a the polyps have turned up wedged into a crevice on the other side of the tank. They're tucked in between a large rock and a smaller rock with a devils hand. Still getting light and were open.

Any insight how this would happen? My CUC is 7 trochus and a hermit crab. Would a trochus have bulldozed through, somehow they've attached and then subsequently detached?

Or alternatively a trochus detaches them and they're them picked up by the flow and randomly deposited?

Cheers

Hi Everyone!!
Any suggestions on how to fight cyano?
I am running my Noo-Psyche light on the default setting for 10 hours per day and I have two Sicce Voyager Nano 2000 wave makers on each side of my 44 gallon tank.

So I have about 10 years of experience in the hobby but that was also almost 10 years ago. I recently wanted to dip my toe back in the water and get started on a nice little nano reef. Found a steal of a setup on market place (innovative marine 10gal, ai prime light, ATO and DIY hood) and went to my lfs to get the rest. I was talking with one of the employees about how the indistry has changed and he seemed pretty well experienced. Live aquaria is apparently trash now, live rock is much less available and instead carib sea "life rock" is the standard, and the most shocking piece of advise i was given was how to cycle my tank. Now ive cycled quite a few tanks before and was planning on doing some "life rock", live sand, ammonia, and an api test kit and wait like normal. He said the best way is to simply add the rock and sand and throw a fish in there and even a hardy coral and do a fish in cycle day 1. "Just let the sand settle". didnt even recommend getting a test kit. Online seems to refute these claims saying a fish in cycle is risky and harmful to the fish. Before I go any farther I was looking for the internets take on things. I didnt end up getting a fish or coral (yet) and havent dosed ammonia (yet). still deciding what path I want to do. Any bonus info on how the industry has changed is appreciated in here as well. Thanks!

My temp probe on my Hydros Minnow error'd out last week and I contacted Coralvue support. They responded the next day and asked me for my receipt and a photo of the probe with wires cut, which I sent back that afternoon. It's now been 7 days and no one has contacted me or responded to my email with the proof of purchase or my follow-up email asking for a status update.

I've sent another email to see what the status is this morning. Has anyone had a similar experience with their support? Is it just one guy that does it all and it takes forever?

My parameters are okay, my other corals are thriving but ever since my ducan started to sprout two new heads three weeks, it’s been closed. Should I be concerned or is this on brand?

Hey guys, currently I have two 75 w heaters in my 40 gal AIO reef tank that each have their own chamber, but im trying to save space, so I was wondering if its safe to put both heaters in the same chamber?

Hey guys! I have a 15 gallon saltwater cube and im wanting to put a pair of clownfish in there. Is it possible to also put a Royal Gramma in there?