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TLDR-is this ich? How screwed am I? Logistical nightmares ahead So the dreaded day has come.. I’m pretty sure this is Ich (tried to get a natural light photo during daylight. Pardon the blues in the video, that was taken this evening during low blue moonlight) Some context, so I have a heavily...

hello, i am fairly new to reefing and yesterday got a diamond goby. This morning i noticed he is just gone, i’ve heard they’re jumpers and checked the back of my tank and nothing. So far i only have 2 clowns, a few blue legged hermits, 2 conches and bloody mary shrimp. Any ideas where he...

I just set up the red sea reef two days ago and it is going through a crazy amount of the roll and rolling every couple minutes. Want to check if there is something wrong with my set up or anything else. Almost the whole roll in two days

I have a 180 gallon (6x2x2) and am looking for lighting options. Looking to have a mixed reef, mostly SPS. What would you recommend? I know with the xr15’s it makes more sense over the xr30’s, is that the same with kessils? I’ll probably supplement with (2) 6’ Quanta bars. I currently have a 90...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has seen anything like this? It's both eyes, Anything I can do for him, is it to late to do anything? He is still eating by himself.

I’ve been treating my hippo tang with copper in a qt for almost three weeks and at first I was seeing results and now it’s worse. No water changes have been don’t. Should I increase the dosage of copper? (Look near face and on spine near tail)

Hi all! I recently acquired this 75g clear-for-life tank and am needing suggestions/help with my stock list. The list of fish that I like and have interest in are: One spot fox face Bristle tooth tang Two-tone wrasse Multi color Lubbock fairy wrasse Adorned wrasse Yellow banded possum wrasse...

Hi Randy, hope you are doing good, this is my first thread ever. My Background: I am a software engeer with 25+ years of experience. In hobby for past 4 years along with the above electronics is my passion and I do a lot of DIY stuff. no background of chemistry Goal I am working on an...

Hello, So I'm really confused aboud flow now. I've read everywhere that it's very necessary in a reef tank and it should be strong, etc etc. Now, I decided to move everything on from my 10 gal nano and make properly equipped 30 gal. I got Tunze nano skimmer on the right back, along with 50watt...

Hi all I’ve recently noticed small white particles in my tank floating around don’t think it’s air bubbles but could be wrong any suggestions on what it could be and how to fix cheers

Not new to reefing but new to an AIO. I had a 180g w a sump but have since downsized to IM 25g lagoon and am having lots of trouble. I started w a sicce synced silent 1.0 pump and it seemed like it was pushing water faster than it can drain. I have since downsized to the same pump just the .5...

Got my fish delivery online today, while acclimating I noticed this on its gill just now?! What can I do with this/for this? Thanks for taking time to check this out!

Hello. Still a newbie, still ballsing things up here and there despite tons of research... The latest thing I seem to have done wrong was disguard what I think was our little red legged hermits molted bits. I'm now told that it would have snacked on them now it's back in his shell - to gain...

Hello, need help id the small critter I found in the tank. It looks like some kind slug, with reddish color. Reef safe or not?

I have 2 radios xr15 blues, I woke up and one of them was on extremely high brightness, I then tried to connect on the app, and the light keeps saying “request timed out”. I’ve unplugged, restarted, recalibrated, and deleted the app… any other suggestions??

Hi all, I was wondering if people could help identifying the below algae. It is a rusty brown colour,… My war parameters are all normal and everything is doing well but this algae has started to appear on my sand bed and it contains air bubbles.

Very new to saltwater, just started up a 15 Spec. I bought live sand, live rock from LFS and pre-mixed SW from LFS. I literally just filled the tank yesterday (ik the cycling process can take a month or more) but just for giggles i tested the water. pH 8.2 Nitrite 5 Nitrate 160 Ammonia 1 Is...

Really curious about the mushrooms and both the zoas on the second frag plug. The palys on the plug with the shrooms are pandoras I believe.

Hi I have a question about why my big fish keep dying> I had 5 fish that were on the bigger side and I added snails and they seemed to die off but since that incident it has been about a month or more and I bought a Maroon Pair and a type of tang it had the shape of a yellow tang but it wasn't a...

Hey all. The back chamber of my nuvo lagoon is all of the sudden too high. It’s not the ATO. We have removed two cups of water - and the chamber keeps rising too high. Like it’s keeping the same water level as the display. Even after removing water - it still stays too high in the back...

Hello, any ideas why this angelfish is not eating? I’ve had him for a few weeks, he ate at first, very slow eater but ate little bits of the floor. Now he hasn’t eaten for a several days, maybe a week. Any ideas, I’ve tried frozen mysis, plankton, angel marine mix, angel frozen mix, new life...

Suspected area near spot. Should I take out coral and inverts and dose whole tank to avoid outbreak? Or are there any other medications that work and are safe with coral and inverts?

Sooo I believe my lights are coming on backwards . Ramps up blue and at the end of the day ramps down yellow/whites ? Just purchased the “Cetus 2ss Twins” by “HM electronics” About a month ago, they have an easy mode where you can set it to Hawaii, Great Barrier Reef, etc.. but the days are...

Hi guys, i am new to r2r sorry if i am posting this into wrong thread. MY Red Digita acropora is getting white day by day. Today it is whiter than always but it has a few green and red spots on it. What should i do to save it or should i remove from the tank?

I’m about 2 weeks in to my cycle that started by dosing 1ppm ammonium chloride and used Dr tim’s one and only bacteria. when ammonia dropped to 0.25 each time i redosed ammonia waiting until it got broken down fully in 24 hours. My nitrite started to rise on day 2 and continued to (my salifert...