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1st pic unkown , 2nd pic are sun corals and third is a star. This may help. http://www.asira.org/caresheets TO many reasons for this. Tanks age? Water readings?

Fire worm. Dont touch. With caution. http://www.chucksaddiction.com/

Un happy corals.....?

Many problems that accure in a SW aquarium take time , months or yrs , to appear , after youve spent lots of money and used lots of time , and can be much harder to fix leaving many to give up from frustration or tank crash. You cant test small batches and get long term results as many...

Smaller tanks require more time but less money. Theres no simple setup but there is a basic setup. With no fish and a few coral minimul amount of flow would work for awile but feeding fish help feed coral and CUC and pods.Low flow means a collection of unwanted nutreints and with fish no skimmer...

A 3 week tank is to soon for any stock. And a canister for water movement wont cut it. Salt water recieves oxygen from a gas exchange at the surface and the better water flow in the tank the better oxygen level. And not from pointing the powerheads at the surface. You want powerheads rated for...

Nothing , but he asked in another reply how long he should leave lights on. Sorry i didnt quote it , just read back. O K.. Unless that was a legit question then , nothing , .

8 to 12 hours. The amount of light can effect your tanks temp and algea growth though.

I agree on LPS or hammer coral , this may help. http://www.asira.org/caresheets

Yes i agree , as blowing would add air as sucking would remove the air. Just besure theres a water surface on both ends. Thats for the correct as i do that alot.

Lack of movement could be from amount or lack of oxygen. Do you have anything for water movement or an airstone?

You could also use an air tube stuck through the pipe on the tank side and then blow to force water flow.

We need to do some elimination. Tanks size and age? Whats tested for and the readings? Do you have any powerheads?

You stated you have a 265 gallon. Is this right? If so then this isnt near enough. You want a constant 5300 GPH. 2 K-4's and a 600 GPH return you only half way there.

Then the fact the airstones helps is another indicater. THe bubbles produced from them isnt the type of oxygen you water needs. Salt water receives its O2 source from a gas exchange at the surface creat from water movement. Then if you have good flow the LR and LS will convert ammonia and...