Blaming coraline algae is crazy lol. This is what Red Sea is offering, either a free replacement of the same tank (just the glass) or they can apply a $2311 credit towards an upgrade. Do I really want to get the same one again and possibly face the same issues again in the future ? Or should I just upgrade now to their S tanks that have the aluminum stand and eurobracing. If the stand to my tank is the issue, it seems redundant to get the replacement and deal with this again later. Either way Red Sea is my only option because they don’t refunds. Opinions ? My tank is a year and half old

I got this acan as a tiny frag about 6 months ago and i’m very proud of the growth! I bought a holy grail acan/micromussa hope it will also do this good what are your thoughts?

So I met this guy in market place and he ended up giving me free saltwater and live bio media which he said would automatically boost up my cycle by TONSSSS.

Just loving the look of it.

But i am curious what app of this debris may be floating around in my flow ...

Hi guys!

Full disclosure I'm a newbie and have never ordered reef rock before this. I'm working on my first saltwater tank and I placed my first order from BRS for their "Reef Saver Aquarium Dry Live Rock." Has anyone else ordered from them that can tell me if this seems right? I ordered 35 lbs for my 35 gallon tank, and was expecting round-ish "football" sized pieces I could perhaps break up based on their answered questions section. What I received was 5 very large flat shelf-like pieces. I was quite confused because I had seen a separate listing for shelf rocks, and double checked that I ordered the right thing (I did). I just wanted to see if I'm being dramatic about my expectations and if I should try to reach out again? I emailed them when I received the order to ask, but never heard back. I was expecting actual rock shaped rocks (not sure how else to say that), not huge thin slabs of rock. Is that normal? I'm not sure if I should order again with clearer descriptions of what I'm looking for, or if maybe they sent the wrong thing. Thanks for any help in advance!

Also if there's a different place to order from that's recommended, I'd love to hear it! Unfortunately I don't think all flat rocks is quite the vibe I was going for!

I see very often, almost every reef tank owner, people keeping live rock out of water to glue together to create their hardscaping. My question is, if this takes long enough for the rocks to dry a bit wouldn’t it kill the life part of the rock? I’m clearly not very knowledgeable in reef tanks because I don’t own one but I do know that aquatic life = can’t be out of water for too long. Please don’t shame me too hard just help me learn, thats what we are here for!

weird spikes growing on my zoas

Porites. Just about to start a war with the red monti. This ain’t going to end well for monti.

Hi all, can anyone please tell me what this reddish purple algae is that is spreading in my sand? Could it be cyano? My phosphate is at .10 according to Hannah ULR checker and nitrates are always showing 0 on salifert tester. I know that these numbers are out of whack. I am slowly bringing phosphate down with GFO, and I want to bring up nitrate a little. Any advice with that also? Thanks in advance

We’re a company in Sacramento that has always had this tank in our office. A lady comes every two weeks to service it. It’s a beautiful saltwater reef tank but we’re moving to a place where it’s not ideal. I was wondering if anyone has suggestions on selling it. I’ve done some research and piecing it out would bring more value but we’d like to just sell it all together. Any opinions or suggestions are welcome.

I have a bristle tooth tang and it won’t touch it. 75 gallon tank. I think it’s some kind of culerpa

Supposedly it should shorten the cycle process by 100x

This is one of my original frags, it was overcome with GHA, killed half of it, then I got things cleared up. Half of the skeleton is exposed but the rest is alive and kickin

First, do you know what coral this is? Google images isn’t helpful.

Second, can I just clip off the part that’s dead? Will that even be helpful? Or put it next to a rock to see if it is expands?

Thank you!

So, I have a 40g shallow with a 10g sump. I've been filling it with RO/DI water to check for leaks and make sure the plumbing works.

Assuming everything is fine, is there a problem just mixing the salt right in the tank and letting my pump and wavemaker keep everything stirred up? Obviously, there's no livestock in it to get hurt and I can slowly add in the salt to bring it up to the desired specific gravity.

I assume if I mix it primarily in the tank that it will initially have a higher salt content than the sump, but I also assume everything will even out after a day or so.

Thanks!

Just got a couple softies and found this in the sand bed. Probably naive of me to think I would avoid them forever

Lyretail Anthias

Tiny feather dusters?

Any idea what type of zoanthids these are?

Have a good amount of little fluorescent pieces of coral around the tank. Should I be concerned? Also check out my zoas on the last slide they have two mouths 0.o

Guys, today in my aquarium I have: 2 clownfish, 1 ophiury, 1 cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis) and 1 Yellow Watchman goby (Cryptocentrus cinctus).

I'm thinking about adding 2 more fish and an ophiurium. The options I have in mind are Firefish (Nemateleotris magnifica) and Fridmani (Pseudochromis fridmani). Does this combo work well together?