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Hey all, Only been on the saltwater side of this hobby for just under two years so this may be dumb but I just haven't seen it before. Tonight a large portion of my macro algae has turned white. Wondering what could be causing this. About 1 1/2 weeks ago I had a surplus in my refugium (in...

Hey all, I recently replaced my Yellow Tang with a small Kole Tang (maybe 2 weeks ago) and I have yet to see him eat. I have tried multiple meaty meals in conjunction with "Julian Springs Sea Veggies" and some emerald entree veggie based foods. The fish is very skittish. It picks on my rocks...

Hey all Was looking at my refugium this morning and was noticing that the surface layer of water is fairly stagnant. The only issue I see with this is about once a month I clean off a surface layer of algae. Now, my refugium seems very healthy so I'm really not worried about it but was...

Hey all, like everything in this hobby I am fully aware and am willing to be patient, however, I want to do this right. My lfs had a rose BTA for $60! And seeing as anemones are the reason I got into his hobby I got it. My tank has been up for a year and a half and all parameters are solid and...

Looking for thoughts on Asterina Starfish. I have a 75 gallon tank that is about 1 1/2 years old and I have noticed a substantial population boom over the last two months. Now I really only see them on the glass at night but my biggest concern is for my Zoa garden that has a fairly good start. I...

Hey all. Had to move some rock work this morning and while doing so saw this. Was hoping someone could help me with ID and how to take care of it. I probably wouldn't care hit it is starting to grow on my toadstool. Thanks in advance

Hey all, My gf apparently likes my hobby because she wants me to setup a new tank. Although she gets my love for reefing she really wants to enjoy more variety of fish and wants me to set up an eel tank. Although my current mixed reef is great now I went into this hobby a little hastily and...

Hey all, Just picked up some new SPS. My lfs is very awesome however with the amount of corals they have they tend to group the frags by family not necessarily by name. Any help would be appreciated

So last night I found a blue banded hermit crab inside the "head" of one if my sacrophyton. I removed it and it went back, then again, then again, and then I realized that there were little brown specs on the sacrophyton. Now I may be wrong however I think that this hermit has laid eggs on my...

Hey all, Was doing some tank maintenence and noticed that my heater (in my refugium) has a hard white "calcified" substance around it. Wondering A: what is this (salt I'm assuming) and B: is this ok? Thanks for your insight

Hey, I've got an algae blenny and a tank that no longer seems to have a good food source for him (obviously there is algae just not an abundance). And reality this is good because all my waste parameters are solid and staying steady. My question is what is the best way to feed him now. I've...

Hey all, This is my first week back from a 3 week business trip (had my lfs help take care if my tank) and I noticed something interesting. It looks like one of my sacrophyton has tilted it's "head" and is moving across my rock work. Also, he left some of himself behind. I figure this is a...

Hey all, Kind of an exciting reef day today for me. Saw some stomalia throw their reproductive clouds into the water column and it would appear that my tube anemone is splitting. Maybe I'm wrong however it looks like a crease is forming on its body and the once circular mouth is taking on...

I would assume this is part if reproduction but I wanted to ask. Walked past my tank to see "clouds" of white stuff coming off some live rock. Turns out the culprits were two stomalia. I would assume this is them putting sperm/eggs into the water column? Just curious. Regardless it was a very...

Hey all, I've got a 75 gallon tank that has been up for about 7 months now and I've been struggling to keep alk my stable. (Ill include pictures of my charts) it seems to "peak" at about 9. What can I do to help this. I add Brightwell Aquatics kh buffer as recommended every other day...

Hey all, Long story short. I had a beautiful percula pair that unfortunately failed due to my female jumping out of my tank. 7 moths later my lfs brought in a single percula that is from the same facility and has extremely similar patterns as to my current male (I tried mixing species and my...

I'm sure I'm not the first to witness this. Just thought I'd share. Looks like my clown has decided to host my Galexea coral. He even chased my flame angel away which has never happened! Any potential short comings of this relationship?

Hey all, I introduced a file fish to my system about a week ago and everything has been going great with it. This morning I noticed he didn't go after food and when I looked closer I think his bottom fin was bitten off. I would assume either my yellow tang or flame angel thought it was a piece...

Just got some more fish and pieces for my tank including a tube anemone. I wanted to open up a discussion for proper practices with this beautiful creature. ph: 8.2 SG: 1.025 Temp: 77 Nitrates: 0 6 month old tank The specimen seemed very healthy when I got him from my lfs. I had them...

Hey all, Hoping for some insight on my crown leather . It looks real "droopy" without polyp extension for almost 2 weeks! And now I'm starting to see a reddish color coloring its skin rather that the usual hue of purple. Any ideas? Also, a backstory could help. This guy has gone through a...

Hey all, I've got this nice piece of live rock that has some Recordia multiplying. However there is a lot of other stuff growing on it as we'll. can anyone tell me what the green "stalks" are? Or anything else on there for that matter.

Hey everybody, Just picked up a really cool hammer coral piece and was wondering if anyone had any advice for keeping it healthy. I have successfully kept a crown leather coral and Recordias (they are spreading like crazy) for about 5 months now so I thought it was time to start adding some...

I just had a 125 gallon explode so here's the tank when brought down to a 75 gallon. Just got a new Tang and Goby! Let me know if you have any ideas!!

Hey all, So I just got my first expensive soft coral and I have a few questions. I had him in a 120 g tank which ruptured the day after I got him so I ran out and got a 75 g to stick my marine life in. I figured this probably stressed my tank out so i new it would take an extra fay or two but It...

Hey guys, I recently had an unfortunate mishap where my 125 g tank sprung a huge leak and I was forced to get a replacement tank immediately. Hence the next largest readily available tank size was a 75 gallon. So I am currently using all the same equipment in this smaller tank. My question...