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I am intrigued to know as well as currently experiencing a bloom myself.

Also we have pulled some live rock out it died not enough light, and found these attached spiky white things

It does look like sargassum is that a keeper ? Opinions?

His plant has randomly started about a couple months ago ( tank has been up and running six months ) anyone know what it is and is it good or bad?

Poor thing :(. We had some itty bitty stars but they are gone now either sucked into the filtration or eaten :(

We started with a basic Kent bioreef tank great little starter tank the only thing I can really fault it for is its a bit hard to change up the water flow but for the fish and soft corals we've got everything is thriving away, I watch it for hours! I am excited for you, I love watching my...

Do you have a local fish store that sells ro water ? We've got a 24 gal so we just pay a couple quid a Month and buy it in a refillable plastic jug that is 20l

They don't seem to have any lines they cast out the crabs eat them sometimes

My peppermint shrimps took care of the one ( probably more unseen) we had no problems can't recommend them enough.

I have tried google images but so far can't find Anything that resembles these

We used fully cured live rock and sand and we have such an abundance of life! We are always seeing something new and it really cut down any cycling problems(none) we just took it slow and steady and had a stress free start up if you can be patient it's really worth it

Thank you, one down one to go

We also have a few more things growing now the two pic are of the same sort of brown cluster which doesn't seem to bother the corals and the purple things growing out of one rock

Weird! Well I have the buffer now and everything is picking up. How quickly do your corals drain the Kh ?

Should be at least 9 I know

8.5 dipping to 7

We have some mushroom corals at first they were massive nothing in the water has changed we test weekly but Kh has lowered I'm waiting for my Kh buffer to arrive would lie Kh cause this failure to thrive? My pulsing zini is doing fine but my young green star polyp has also start to go smaller...

Thank you all for the input only a couple problems to go and I'm golden one is alk the other algae but I'm getting a sand sifter in the weekend so that's one solved and I'm hoping switching over to Red Sea salt should take care of my alk prob. Although everything in the tank is thriving so i'm...

On the instructions from Red Sea say not to mix for more than 4 hours ? Can anyone shed any light on which way is best ?

Just started our tank Boxing Day and are now moving on to Red Sea salt mix previously I have been mixing, heating to temp then letting it sit for few hours at temp is this ok or would you recommend leaving it over night?

And this we have as well

Yes that sounds like these guys x

That's cool

It's not quite green enough after looking at various pics only the very tipS glow green

I used it and it went completely it seemed but re grew in the same spot? But then I got a couple of peppermint shrimps and that little pain in the butt was gone two days later and hasn't been back!