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Hi everyone. Its been a long time. Been busy fighting cancer and feeling good today. So I have a question. I have one of those aqueon tank from Petsmart I got 11 years ago. Never been moved and on a flat stand since it was first setup. Today I was cleaning the trim and noticed these cracks. Is...

Was doing a water change on this aqueon 55 gallon I have had up and running 9 years. Never moved it from the spot it's in. It's on a full stand and leveled since day 1. Today after the 20% water change, I noticed real small air bubbles in the right seam. From the top to the middle are these...

Hey guys. Has anyone had a green polyp leather literally frag itself? I mean actually ripped a piece of itself off and grew the missing part back in? https://imgur.com/gkXPivq https://imgur.com/hFCVCDD https://imgur.com/WNlZsg7 https://imgur.com/FmDIK1x https://imgur.com/AuIHTGZ...

I hate to keep posting all the time like this but It's like once I got back into the hobby it's been problem after problem. First that weird algae, then the killer clowns and now I have a serious amphipod infestation. I mean I have THOUSANDS of them. They always keep my zoas closed up crawling...

So I have had the same clowns for 6 years. Lately it's like they have went nuts! No matter what I put in the tank they attack it to death. It started with some Duncans. They attacked it CONSTANTLY! Smashed their faces into it and started grabbing the tentacles and snatching them. The 9 headed...

Hey all! So I have a client that want an aquarium cause he suffers from ptsd and aquariums calm his "nerves" as he says. He is in an apartment built in 1917 on the third floor. His landlord said he can have an aquarium. So he got a 50 gallon with a stand that spans the length of the tank. His...

Hey everyone! glad to be back posting! Finally kicking cancer's but! But I have a problem. I bought a big colony of Duncans and my clowns that I have had for years saw me feeding it mysis and now they are tearing it apart thinking it's mysis shrimp in it all the time to the point the duncan...

Hey guys. It's been a LONG time since I posted on here. Cancer had a strong grip on me but I'm back now ;) I know this is a loaded question but what do you guys think about not having a skimmer on a 55gallon lps, softie tank. I have a eshopps skimmer on it now but i have a very low bio load...

Wow been a long time since I been on here. This cancer is kicking my butt. But I have a question. It might be a dumb question but do leather corals excrete toxins or do they have to be close to a coral to release it. I have some ricordias that were fine until I added 2 green neon leather corals...

In the 10 years I been reefing I have never come across this algae before. I have taken every rock and scrubbed the life out of it. Did a huge water change. Added phosphate media, clean everything I can clean including skimmer and sump. And this crap came back the next day with a vengance...

Anyone ever had this type of algae? In the 10 years I been reefing and the MANY tanks I have setup, none of them have had this brown, furry kinda algae. It's not bad cause it wipes right off, easily come off the glass and rocks. Doesnt grow on corals or sand. A water change and it dies off...

Ok this is getting annoying. I have this white "Film" All on my back glass and rocks. No snails will touch it. Troches, Nerite, Margarita or turbos. Anso its making my sand clump up. There is no cyano ( I know what that is. Had it long time ago) I have tried wet skimming, Water changes, Dr. Tims...

Hey guys, sorry I been gone so long. Cancer was getting the best of me and now I'm doing better so I decided to get my 90 gallon back in full swing. This will be my 4th reef but I just want some advice cause sometimes I go over board. I want a good cleanup crew. I was thinking 10 Scarlet...

Hey everyone. Been gone for a while due to cancer and heart surgery. BUt I have a question. I have had this torch coral for maybe 9 months and up until 2 months ago it won't fully extend anymore. I'll put up a before and after. Before it used to extend nicely: After: The tentacles won't...

woke up last night to see if my clownfish babies hatched and noticed my candy cane corals has this wierd growth on them. Looked like dinos cause it had ait bubble coming from it. It's only on my frogspawn and candy canes. No where on the rocks or sand. any ideas?

Ok so for months I was fighting a losing battle. Never figured out why my corals were slowly dying after 6 years. Now my rock has this stringy thick algae which im thinking now is dinos or maybe some form of Cyano. It started growing on my corals except for my 27 head torch coral which I have...

Ok I have posted alot about my tank going down hill. First off I was using 15 gallons of distilled water a week. Finally thought to test the water and it was at 164 tds. DISTILLED WATER!! So bought a 5 stage Ro/Di from brs and been doing a 15% water change every 3 days. As many of you know my...

Hey guys I really really wanna add a sump to my aquarium. Only problem is it's a 7 year old reef and the tank isn't drilled. tired of cleaning this canister every weekend. I really wanna add a sump but too scared of the horror stories of overflows and destroyed floors. I'm on the 4th floor and...

I don't know what happened. I have had the same coral for 4 years. Never changed my tank habits. I do everything the same time on the same days of the week. For the last 2 months, my corals have started receeding little by little. First it started with my duncans closing up and have been closed...

Hey Guys, I have some Duncans and Frogspawns that have ALOT of heads on them. So many to the point that the heads are crowding each other. In the ocean this doesn't seem to be a problem. But in my aquarium the polyps on the outter edge open up very wide. The ones on the inner part barely open up...

Ok I am really thinking about taking this tank down. Something is very wrong. Tank has been up for years but recently after a water change most of my corals are pissed off. frogspawn won't open up, Hammers stay closed and Torch won't extend. I'm not a rookie but it seems like after I used this...

I swear I am at my wits end! Tank has been setup for 7 years. for the last 2 years mostly all the corals look like crap. Lps won't open fully, Sps bleaching or browning out. BUT EVERY TIME I do a 20% water change once a week they are open fully and fat and happy. Very next day they look like...

So I have been fragging and reefing for about 8 years now. I ALWAYS use the super glue gel from the dollar Store. So I used a little bit to keep 2 small rocks together from shifting and falling. After a month or so the rocks move cause of me adding a frag to the tank and I notice the spots where...

Ok i need some help cause I am stumped. I have had this colony of frogspawn for about a year. it has about 12 heads and 6 of them open well and 6 only a little. When a do a water change within 4 minutes ALL of them open very very wide. I mean the best polyp extension. The next day, the same...

Hey everyone. I was doing a water change and knocked over a rock on accident. When picking it back up I noticed this coral growing. I have no idea what it is.... Also I got this free from a friend and it was doing fine for a long time and now it's got white spots all over it. Bleaching?