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Hello all I have not posted n a while but I am having some strange occurrences with my tank upgraded to a 90 gallon from my existing bowfront I used to have; I have not updated my stats yet. I have been running the current system for about one year solid now no real issues until about a week...

I have a pair of two clarkii clowns that have cohabited for nearly four years, they have always been extremly well behaved together. I awoke this morning and everything seemed fine only to get a call at work two hours later that my smaller clown was looking like it was going to tip over. Ran...

I just tested my water for magnesium for the first time in an effort to correct my KH deficiency, curious thing though my tests came out outrageously high 1680 ppm. Tested it twice just to be sure.. could this be due to my low calcium levels? wondering if this revelation is harm full to any of...

I ham having some weird stuff happening to all of my soft corals my red mushroom coral (elephant ear) were extremely upset looked like coral mucus and the likes was starting to form yesterday, today they seem better, now my Kenya trees polyps are not opening on all of the branches of my trees. I...

I just recently noticed that a few of my mushroom corals look really bad in the later part of the day for two days straight.. a couple of my other Kenya trees and green star polyp look a little rough too, I recently have had an outbreak of cyanobacteria in my refugium (lack of flow I think?)...

I was entertaining the idea of getting some Berghia nudibranch to control my horrible aptasia outbreak that is happening, it seems like the best non-chemical way of dealing with them. Peppermint shrimp and the likes did nothing for me I used to use Aptasia X but now I have an awesome BTA I dont...

I have these everywhere and I don't know how to get rid of them I believe there are possibly nudibranch's that eat these things? that is if they are indead hydroids.. They sting my corals and my anemone does not like them at all, any suggestions??

/ The stuff on top of it is hair algae but i don t have a clue what these are possibly some sort of polyp?

I just got a brand new bubble tip Anemone for my clown fish however it seems reluctant to move out and about the tank from behind my LR, I belive this is due to aptasia and hydroids that are next to it are stinging her. I was wondering if anyone has some advice on if aptasia X is harmfull to my...

I just built a HOB refugium from a HOB overflow trickle I used a mud substrate and was wondering if there needs to be any cycling of the fuge from the live mud before adding it to my setup. currently I have it recycling in to an old sump and it has been only one day, any Ideas on if I can just...

I just built a HOB refugium from a HOB overflow trickle I used a mud substrate and was wondering if there needs to be any cycling of the fuge from the live mud before adding it to my setup. currently I have it recycling in to an old sump and it has been only one day, any Ideas on if I can just...

I found out today that I had been testing nitrate with the wrong test I just found my tank level to be way high Like between 65 and 80 ppm yikes!! I just did a PWC 10 % and am doing another tomorrow of 10% from the first PWC I reduced the nitrate to about 50 ppm I have two cleaner shrimps and a...

I was measuring ph levels of my RO top off water it was around 5 and I'm trying to keep my system at 8.0 - 8.3. So I was wondering if it is pho-pa to buffer a gallon of top off water? Just a thought... does the top off even impact the PH that much or is the disolved salt in the system enough to...

This morning I lost my yellow tang... after I changed the water day before yesterday, yesterday morning he started hyperventilating he got about eight hours of that and then fell to the floor continuing to hypervenilate and expired in another five hours. I have two clown fish that are still...

Yesterday I did a 10% water change, added a serpent star that i dripped in, this morning all of my fish were respirating heavily, the night before in addition to the water change and new star fish I added 2 new impeller pumps. All the fish ate dinner and seemed fine after lights out. This...

so recently my cleaner shrimp has molted thing is just today I woke up and found my clarkii clown having what looks like a cleaner antena stuckin hanging out does anyone think I would hurt him if I caught him and yanked it out? its been there for about 24 hrs now...

I woke this morning to find my tang having what looks like two gauges in his side midway down his torso white in contrast with the yellow I'm not sure if he cut him self or if they are some other form of marine parasite showing up they don't look like what has been described as ich but he is...

I have been toying around with what would be exactly the optimal salt water gravity for my particular system. I heard that coral like a sg around 1.024 - 1.025 ? although I have been maintaining my sg at around 1.022 most of my species of corral seem fine except this older star polyp that I...

I just had the fortune of inheriting a sweet custom 130 gallon tank like 8 ft long by 2 ft tall by 2 ft wide I found in an apartment storage being liquidated. Apart from being fairly dirty it is oddly enough constructed out of all glass and silicone, it holds water I tested it, It did not leak...

I just bought some skunk cleaner shrimp, I drip acclimated them for about an hour doubling the liquid and then discarding doubling again then netting them in to the tank. this is my first acclimation how do I tell if they were improperly acclimated, was this method correct? they are hiding and...

I was just wondering, if I am doing a water change and I mix my salt with cold RO water (60 deg F) and bag salt how do I tell what the specific gravity of my water is relative to the water in my tank at 75 deg F. (1.022 grav) I followed the mix instructions and my salinity seems to be 1.030 with...