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Got jolted out of bed around midnight last night by a 5.0 shaking my house. Kids were yelling, dogs going crazy and my first thought was......oh man, I hope my tank holds it together...lol It did, I didn't have to clean up 125 gallons of water, coral,sand and rock off my living room floor...

I just added a really big male Bird Wrasse to my tank and MAN is it cool. The thing is huge and full of character. Watching it eat is a trip, I'll feed it a silverside that it catches in its long beak then it smashes it by opening and closing its beak or it will literally smash the silverside...

So through my journey of reef keeping I'm the most stocked I've ever been. My 125 gallon is a year old and running great. I lived through Marine Velvet although none of my fish did and I've re stocked. I now have... 6 really big green chromis 1 yellow tang 2 clowns 1 square back...

I have a yellow tang that I've had for 2 months or so. Medium sized, eats like a pig. Very active but totally non aggressive. Only tang in the 125 gallon 6 foot tank. Yesterday I see him flashing, oh no, not a flashing tang!!! So he has no ich spots anywhere, but his left side fin...

So a month ago I bought a bluejaw Trigger. Big fat and healthy. Didn't quarantine but dripped acclimated over 3 hours before adding her to my lightly stocked 125 6 foot tank. From day one, she is super shy when it comes to feeding. She's out swimming all day and really sociable, no...

Question, what would make my deep water acro loose it's colored tips? I bought one like 6 months ago and put it on the sand bed. It was mostly white/beige with purple tips. the tips have faded and now it's all one color, the white/beige color. It's still growing and the tissue is alive, not...

A few months ago I noticed little fuzzy hard thing growing everywhere in my tank. They were on the rock, walls, overflows, ect. So I've been watching these things grow and I'm almost certain now they are pink birds nest babies! I think my coral spawned and now I have little coral growing...

So I'm going away for 4 days and my ATO will normally last 3 days with my open top system. I want to lay a coupld of large sheets of transparent plastic on my tank leaving a couple of inches as a gap. Now I have dual overflow into a open top 40 gallon sump so I'm sure my oxegen levels should...

Ive had my skimmer running 6 months. Am I supposed ti take it apart and clean it from time to time? What maintenance do you do on your skimmer?

I have these all over the tank. They look like little sps coral that are small little cone shape things. If you touch them they retract the fuzzy polyps that cover it, just let ke an sps. They are pointy, almost shaped like a snail shell. I can lile 20 of them in various places in the tank...

I'm blown away. I added a tiny sand sifting goby to my tank and he literally cleans the entire sand bed daily. He never stops working and my sand looks AMAZING! Why has it taken me 6 years to discover the wonders of the goby???

On Friday I bought a Naso tang. He's looking healthy, swimming around my QT tank but hides when he sees me. Thing is, he doesn't eat. Wont take in any frozen food, no pellets and I cant tell if he's eating the seeweed or if it's just being broken up and sucked into the HOB filter. No...

Does anyone have a squarespot anthias? I put one in quarantine on Saturday and he's littereally been lying on his side under a rock hiding since. I hear they are "slow acclimators" but is this what they mean? I'm wondering if he'd be more comfortable in my display with lots of rock work ect...

Just getting into zoas and would appeeciate somw names if you know them...

Oh man did my cleaner shrimp become a jerk! He realized that coral take in food and harrassed every coral that he could looking for peices of shrimp in their mouths. He created a routeen. He'd start with my bubble coral. He picked at this so much I think it may die. Then he'd clean all the...

I don't know why but i've struggled with drip acclimation. Not getting drip to continue, not getting a slow drip, tube falling off the tank. Just didn't work for me. Then I remembered that I have dosing pumps that drip akl and cal into my tank. I just took the "in" line out of the calcium...

The LFS just updated their facebook page with ricordia, her favorite coral. She went to the store solo and bought 2! Her first solo trip since I starting reefing 5 years ago. Thats right, not only is she ok with the reef, she is now participating on her own. Oh ya I can sense your jellousy...

Ok, the history... 125 gallon tank gets velvet and wipes out fish..... I let the tank go fallow for 8 weeks. Add quaranteened fish to tank (4 of them over a month period). Less than a month after the last fish was added, velvet is back and kills 3 of them.... So thats the only changes in...

I set up my tank in July and I don't have one drop of coraline algae. My rocks area all basically off white. I have no bad algae at all either but I'd like some purple. Why would I have none? My LED lights too bright? My glass litterally does not have one speck. Werid...

Well after loosing all my fish to velvet I've set up a quarantine tank. It's cycling now so it doesn't have a fish in it. I've read article after article on these tanks and all say no liverock or sand. My question is why no rock? I would think it would help with the amonia like in my display...

Well for the first time in 5 years of reefing I got hit with Marine Velvet and hit hard! I lost all my fish. So now I have my reef fallow and will for 2 months to make sure the parasite is gone. My question is, with no fish in the tank do I need to feed the coral (LPS and SPS)? I always...

I have an extra phosban 150 reactor laying around, I figured I'd add some nitrate media to it. Any suggestions? Biopellets? Is there a good brand or something?

They have a saltwater tank in the head of household room. They are now 91 days into the show, who's doing waterchanges? Who's checking salinity? Who's topping up the water? :lol:

So a strange event is taking place. I have a nice pink tail trigger in my tank. totally healthy and eats like a pig. So 2 nights ago I was removing the shedded shell of my coral branded shrimp and as I'm bringing it up from the bottom of the tank my trigger swoops in and steals it from my...

M almost ready to give up on this...lol. One of my durst drains is silent, the other is like a loud bong. The quiet one feeds into about 7 feet of one inch pipe. It drops 6 niches then travels about 6 feet then elbows to a 2 foot drop. The noisy one drops straight from the bulkhead into the...