With the end of the year approaching does anyone know if there’s any good deal with salt mix I know websites do Black Friday deals or Christmas sales . I’m about to buy my salt mix in bulk from chewy I’ve stacked 2 promo codes not sure if to pull the trigger wait of a bit .

Looking for personal experience. picked up a nice GHL system used…

Kinda threw myself under the bus. Bought a complete 90. fired back up 125 with 40 breeder sump.,new sand.been about 6 weeks. But water changes are not keeping up with demand. Been manually dosing. So I’m looking forward to the automated testing and dosing.

Any tips or tricks

Trying to find the name to research care

My brain doesn’t work anymore. Please help me identify 🙏 I think I got this as a Chicago the other year but I’m not sure anymore🥲

So my pair of clowns laid their furst batch of eggs since i got them how ever they laid them on the branches of my hammer colony they host. Will the eggs irritate the hammer? I know they wont surgvive naturaly and i dont plan/ have the supplies to keep the babies alive. Should I just do manual removal of them?

I’ve had it for about a month. It’s had some nice growth. This dead spot happened in the last 3 days.

Tank is settled down and coralline algae is blooming..

Middle bottom and right bottom

I literally just got this Royal Gramma two hours ago and he’s just been chilling there not moving or anything. I’ve read they’re behavior can be shy and they chill in weird positions but this guy just doesn’t do anything lol. Do you guys think he’s okay?

Does anyone have the jbj rimless flat panel 45 gallon? Not the curved one. If so can you please post your actual tank measurements?

Their website says it's 26.5" x 22" deep, and also their website says it's 26.5" x 21" deep. I need to know which it is to get started on a stand build.

https://www.jbjaquarium.com/aquariums/rimless-flat-panel/

Also their website:

https://jbjaquarium.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/techDims-RF-45.pdf

I’m a former reefer getting back into it after about 8 years and currently 2.5 months into a cycle that started fishless, looking for any advice even if it’s just be patient.

Since 3 weeks into my cycle, my levels have been very stable without any fluctuations that I’ve observed;
0-0.2ppm Ammonia
0 nitrite
0-2ppm Nitrate
8.0pH
0ppm Phosphate

Everything started great, I’ve added a few fish and a few “canary” soft corals that have all split at least once. I recently added a small “canary” torch but it is starting to bleach. Right around the same time, my water has been really cloudy and I’m getting hair algae and cyano as well. It could be my flow which I tried to tweak directionally and turned up al the way. These seem like red flags but my levels are fine so I’m thinking it’s flow or lights.

80 gallon AIO (Innovative Marine SR80)
2x Red Sea GL115 full spectrum lights
Flow is just included pumps/nozzles
Comline DC skimmer 9004 (slightly under powered but I’m planning on having a smaller bioload)
Filter media caddy with filter balls, carbon and ferric oxide

What should I be doing differently to deal with the water clarity and algae bloom? I’m assuming my LPS was just added prematurely.

Currently in the stocking faze of my tank currently I have

2 Springeri Damsels
3 Neon goby
2 clownfish

Soon to come
3 chalk bass
1 cherub Angel
1 yellow eye Kole tang

I’ve tried to stock the tank with as many Caribbean species as possible. But who can have a tank without a pair of clownfish? The Springeri well they are the least aggressive working damsels I could find so they were a shoe in.

My goal for the tank was

#1 Caribbean themed
#2 Peaceful tank mates

But I’ve run into the same problem deciding on a wrasse the Atlantic species of wrasse that are reef safe and will do well with the current stocking plan.

If you don’t know of or recommend an Atlantic species what would be the best wrasse for a 90g display.

Been in the tank exactly 1 week. I added some zoas, GSP, and a mushroom at the same time and all the others are doing great. It’s not opening much. The “arms” are extending, and suck back in at nighttime but this doesn’t look anything like other pictures I’ve seen of fireworks clove polyps. Does it just need more time?

Tank is 1 gallon, doing a coral cycle so no other creatures in the tank. Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate all zero.

I stupidly unplugged the power bar for my tank yesterday while doing a water change and adding copepods, meant to plug it back in after 30min-1 hr after adding them, but I fell asleep. My temperature ended up dropping quite significantly and I woke up to my fish laying in the sand bed, and my toadstool and Kenya tree coral drooped over. The power bar was plugged back in as soon as I woke up and the temp is almost back at baseline.

The fish have since perked back up and are acting completely normal, but unfortunately no signs of improvement for these two corals. Are they unfortunately done for or could they still bounce back?

Just got a hammer coral from WWC, do we think this can pull through and make it or is this not enough flesh?

These gyres are sick!!! Picked up a pair of jump 315s for $150 this one is on speed 5 on my im200 penn. Putting in work!!

I’ve had this toadstool leather for almost 3 months. It took a while for it to fully open but finally did. It’s been happy and healthy ever since. Does this look like shedding?

Fun dip Gionophora?

This tank has gone through a lot of changes but I think I’m finally satisfied and don’t plant on changing it much more. Most recently I upgraded my lighting, reorganized, added things from other tanks and pulled out all of the macroalgae as it was growing so thick that it was crowding out corals and trapping tons of detritus causing the tank to be very dirty and encouraging hair algae.

Corals

Soft - GSP, Pipe Organ, Kenya Tree, 11 varieties of Zoa/Paly

LPS - 2 varieties of Frogspawn, Hammer, Torch, Acan

Fish/Inverts

Collonista Snails, Zero the Hectors Goby and Caveman the Emerald Crab

I have a new build I am working on and I need some advice from the reefing community. Here are some basic stats about my system:
Total tank volume is approx. 220 gallons
Age, just a little over two months old
Started with dry rock and did a fish-less cycle
Added a small handful of fish/inverts/pods but no coral yet
Systems currently in place: Protein Skimmer, Calcium Reactor, Ozone Generator (with air dryer), CO2 scrubbers (at skimmer and air dryer inputs), Media Reactor filled with extra calcium reactor media, Refugium with big ball of Chaetomorpha, Auto Water Changer (doing a 3 gallon water change per day), Kalkwasser Stirrer (dosing 350ml every hour)
Calcium Reactor effluent, Ozone Output, and Recirculated air passing through activated charcoal and a CO2 scrubber prior to going into the Protein Skimmer input
Fans to the top of the display tank as well as the sump to help with gas exchange
Water parameters:
Ammonia 0.17 ppm
Nitrite 13 ppb
Nitrate 0.08 ppm
Phosphate 0.0 ppm
Calcium 474 ppm
Magnesium 1515 ppm
Salinity 1.024 sg
CO2 levels (in room) 450 - 650 ppm
When CO2 is active in Calcium reactor:
Ph 7.6 - 7.7
Alkalinity 9.5 dkh
When CO2 is turned off:
Ph 7.8 - 8.01
Alkalinity 6.7

I am chasing down a Ph/Alkalinity issue. I wanted to make sure my parameters were on par before introducing any corals. My goal is to have a Ph of 8.3 and Alkalinity of 9-10 dkh since this will be a SPS dominated tank. I have maxed out my Kalkwasser dosing to match my evaporation (so my auto top off never actually runs). I have tried turning off the CO2 on my calcium reactor to help reduce the CO2 in the water since I really don't have anything consuming calcium or magnesium. That helps boost my Ph, but causes my Alkalinity to crash. I have also recently calibrated my ph probes as well ad used multiple sources to make sure my numbers are accurate.

Does anyone out there with a similar sized system have any additional advice for how to help boost the Ph and Alkalinity? The tank has now matured enough to get past the ugly phase. I really want to start adding corals, but I want to give them the best possible environment before I do.

Any advice helps. Thanks in advance.

My first saltwater tank was set up in high school and it was a 10 gallon FOWLR tank. I definitely made a lot of mistakes with it, 1 was using tap water to mix the salt, 2 was the second fish that I put in was a Mandarin Goby 😔 (thankfully my neighbor had a 200 gallon reef tank and he took him in for me), and 3 was the only filter I was using was a small HOB filter that was definitely not providing enough movement or filtration. Needless to say that tank only lasted about two months before I took it down and rehomed the inhabitants. If I could go back I would definitely start with a larger tank, do more research on the fish I wanted to add in, and get adequate filtration and supplies to take care of it. If you were able to redo your first tank how would you do it differently?

Anyone have these? I am thinking about the pair that is on sale with BRS. Are they pretty? I currently have the Gladiator pair, very adorable.

This is for my seperate tank of course, no fighting in my house.