dying

  1. U

    EMERGENCY Foxface lying on the ground

    my family and I went on a trip for a couple days all the fish were doing great but when we came back 1 fish was dead, 1 dissapeared and the foxface was breathing heavily and lying on the ground. Could it be ammonia? I've moved him into a qt just incase.
  2. J

    EMERGENCY Help with elegance coral

    I’ve had him for about 6 weeks, full extending and eating good. But since last week he has remained closed and refuses to open, any tips? And here’s what he looked like before
  3. rantipole

    Frogspawn Dying and Dissolving - HELP!

    My frogspawn has been doing well for the 15 or so months I've had it. Two days ago, it was retracted. Yesterday, it started to dissolve. Today, it's worse. It could be fighting with the Hydnophora that is above and behind it, but the problem started in the head furthest from the Hydnophora. I...
  4. B

    Need help. Fish dying

    So I'm at a loss. All the fish in my tank died except for one scooter blenny I got when I first set up the tank. Tank was running smooth for the first 6 - 7 months. I had no issues and it housed a pair of clowns, midas blenny, goby and the last man standing the scooter blenny. The goby died...
  5. belly14

    Is my Toadstool Leather dying?

    Hi all, My toadstool leather has gone from open and growing to the second image below. It’s been this way for around 7days. Is this on its way out??? It’s been bigger than the open pic but not images of it. I moved it to sandbed a while back and it’s had been open and growing in the spot it is...
  6. K

    My fish tank cracked

    So my fish tank cracked when I was moving it, I used rags to collect some water and through my corals and fish and rock in a bucket, I ran to the store and bought premade saltwater, now the next day I tested my tank and it’s at ammonia is through the roof!!! Not sure what I can dose to lower...
  7. L

    LFS needs help with SPS flat

    Hi all, I have been working at a lfs over the last year and some change and I’ve seen a decline in their Sps coral flats. I’ve kept heavy mixed reefs and had success with high end sps before but now I will be taking over the responsibility of these huge systems which I’ve only had under 50...
  8. A

    SPS dying - white bug(?)

    Hey guys, Recently i lost 3 sps that died slowly as an infection or something like that. Today i was cutting some dead branches and noticed that almost all of them had this guy in it.. Does anyone know what this might be? Looks like a white venom to me, haha.
  9. TheReelColton

    Hammer Sulking Months Later

    I've had this hammer since mid September, and its never opened up more than It has in its first week. It looks nowhere like it did at the swap when I bought it (it was bicolor, blue and green) The first photo is day one in the tank, and the second is today. The last month or two has been...
  10. TheBirdsNest

    Candy Cane Health Issues?

    Hello folks! Hope everyone has had a great weekend! I'm relatively new to the hobby and got my first Red Sea Reefer 250 a couple of months ago.. Last week I added my first corals and all seem to be doing well with the exception of my Candy Cane.. The first 2-3 days it looked happy but now it...
  11. J

    Can’t keep torches alive!!!

    My tank is 1.5 years old . I can’t keep ANY torch coral alive! My parameters are rock stable. It’s so frustrating! I can keep hammer corals just fine and even some Acros sticks. Anyone have an idea on the cause? Also this type of frogspawn I can’t keep alive Dosing Kalkwasser & Brightwell Mag...
  12. W

    Anemone help!

    Hi all. My anemones has been looking worse and worse over the course of the past month or so. Started off looking awesome which I have attached to the pics. Since then I’ve had one move all around the tank and the other just not fully opened. Parameters are below. Would appreciate any insight...
  13. Z

    EMERGENCY Came home and my torch and hammer looked like this. What’s going on.

  14. Spinoyonyx

    Macroalgae dying? (some form of Caulerpa racemosa)

    My Macroalgae seems like its dying, new growth has turn whitish. Has it gone sexual or something else like lack of nutrients? This tank is a cycled tank without corals yet. nitrates are around 20-40ppm and phosphates are around 0.6-1 ppm. Light is strong freshwater plant light. If so what...
  15. Trueruby

    Is Rock Flower Nems Dying? Tentacle melting issue

    Hi Everyone I got 14 rfa in my 150 g tank recently two of my beauty started to loose tentacles. It is obviously rotting and falling a part. Does anyone ever had something like theese? Please see below pics and tank parameters First I tought they get too salinity 1025 Temperature 24.5C Ca 415 kH...
  16. Trueruby

    Rock flower nem tentacles melting!

    Hi Everyone I got 14 rfa in my 150 g tank recently two of my beauty started to loose tentacles. It is obviously rotting and falling a part. Does anyone ever had something like theese? Please see below pics and tank parameters First I tought they get too salinity 1025 Temperature 24.5C Ca 415...
  17. C

    Help! Setosa suddenly dying??

    Help! We have a huge setosa that is a real showpiece in our tank. Last night, I noticed a concerningly large section is dying off, and it's happening quickly. (Honestly, it either happened like within a day, or I'm somehow just completely blind considering I sit and just watch our tank every...
  18. J

    What is killing my clownfish?

    Okay i have a 20g tank divided in the centre for my clownfish breeding project. New fish seem to be dying for no reason but there definitely is a reason which i dont know yet. Swimming happily at 6pm then dead at 9pm. But then theres others in there which are fine. Same tank same water. The tank...
  19. ReeferMadness80G

    My SPS are dying, no clue why!

    I used to be pretty active on here, years ago. Excited to see if some of the OG's are still around. Firstly, thank you for your help in figuring this out! My Tank is a 29 Gal JBJ Cube with Eshopps Nano Cube Refugium Sump Roughly 33-35 gallons overall. Parameters are pretty stable (I will...
  20. S

    EMERGENCY Anemone health!!

    hi everyone, this is kind if urgent. So i recently got a anemone and did everything correct into adding it in. I made sure the salinity was ok(1.025), ammonia was 0, nitrite was also 0 and some nitrate. I recently got into this hobby and I read that if you wanted to add corals you would have to...
  21. dennislagoon

    Dying Montipora Digitata's

    Hi everyone, I have a reefer 170 for about 10 months now (dry rocks started cycling 2 months earlier), but one of my problems is trouble with my first Montipora Digitata's. A while ago, I decided to test some easy SPS, but things have been going poorly. I know my tank is quite new and...
  22. M

    EMERGENCY All of my fish and coral are dying

    Every fish in my 60 gallon (20g sump) has died besides my melanarus wrasse. I had a pair of pink skunk clowns, mandarin goby, lemon peel angel, coral beauty, powder tang, clown tang (both tangs were under 4” and would have been transferred to a 200g that is being converted to salt now)...
  23. Sikorskym14

    EMERGENCY PLEASE HELP - NASO DYING

    Over the last two weeks I’ve had two fish go on me, the first was my scopas tang. Looked so weak he was laying down all over the tank so I pulled him and put him in QT, however he eventually passed. Now, about a week or so later I find my blonde naso tang looking a bit weak and swimming a bit...
  24. N

    Help! My Dragon Soul torch is looking bad!

    So recently (29th of Jan 2023) I managed to get my hands on a dragon soul torch head (which was splitting). The torch coral was very healthy in the reef tank of the original owner. From the second it was placed in my reef tank the torch coral never fully extended. First call of blame was...
  25. C

    My LPS aren't doing well. Need some help with my first tank.

    I'll get the tank stats out of the way first. 20 Gallon Cube AIO with AI Prime 16HD running on David Saxby preset. It's about 6 months old (not including the cycle), and for the first few months everything was going well, corals were completely open and growing, and now pretty much all of my...
Back
Top