Hey everyone! A week ago I bought the reefbreeders photon v2 48 light. I am very pleased with this light and am in no way downing it. All my coral are adjusting great....except one. My acro have completely bleached. They never really grew well in the first place but I still would like to keep...

:wavey: Hi I'm Lauren, Glad to be part of the reefing community! Im 30 live in london and have been into marine fish keeping for years! I finally got given a tank for xmas in 2015 and now spend my days researching online and watching you tube for the best advice for my tank and hopefully...

Hey guys, I have had a candy cane acan coral for a little while now. I have been playing with it, moving it around my tank. I can't quite get the perfect spot. It is on a fraq plastic piece so it is hard to find a spot. It is in the sand and has fluctuated from being really small to really...

Hi guys, recently i purchased a 3 gallon nano aquarium that I intended to convert to a reef only tank. I set it up with live sand, live rock and added marine bacteria about a week and a half ago. i bought my first frag today and about 3 hours after putting it in, it started secreting brown...

I have recently got a elegance coral from a guy that had it two months but I've had it in my tank for two days now it's not open tentacles seem to be withering away. Tank params are good. Don't know how to post pic.

Real quick background. I recently upgraded my tank from a 90 to a 180 (6 months now) old tank was a little tricky to keep my levels stable in, so as a result the corals, mostly sps, did not have the best colors. they wern't so much brown, they are just not vivid. I had them under 400W MH's which...

Our 55g Oceanic tank has been up and running for at least a good year and a half. We bought a new lighting system at christmas the prior year. We just replaced the 2 double 65w daylight/460Nm bulbs in it 2 weeks ago and the 150w HQI light last week. the tank has a model 75 oceanic filter syatem...

I had been running a Corallife MH on-back of tank (15K, 150W) for a couple years. I had six corals doing great. I finally replaced the bulb and the tank crashed from the new bulb. I mean I lost all coralline algae, the rocks went white etc I had moved the coral to the bottom and raised the...

Sunscreen Stresses Coral Reefs AFP <!-- ## SPACER --> <!-- ## ARTICLE --> May 23, 2008 -- Sunscreen lotions used by beach-going tourists worldwide are a major cause of coral bleaching, according to a new study commissioned by the European Commission. In experiments, the cream-based...

Hi Everyone!! I'm considering a hard Coral for my tank. The lfs has a special 5 frags for a 100 bucks. I'm wondering I could have one to add color to my tank? Right now everything is either green OR brown:(. I have a 150 with 40 gallon sump new aquac skimmer mh 2 140 watt 14000 k with 40 watt...

MACNA XX September 5-7, 2008 in Atlanta -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are excited about this year's MACNA conference. We already have Pre-registered and paid as many as most of the total attendance of the first 15 or so MACNAs, so it...

I've been reading....and can't for the life of me remember where I read an article or something about dying corals on coral reefs...the article stated that there was a new belief that some of the corals that were thought to be dead were not actually dead but pulled inside to , well, like...

One reason to have fluctuation in our tanks and to not shoot for all stable parameters. I have always thought that my daily temp swing of 2-4 degrees could be helpful in helping corals survive an enviornmental stess. I had a temp spike about 2 months ago where we had a warm day and I had...

Just curious

I'm going to combine a couple of posts here into my first post because I don't want any one to get too long. The first will be the past, second the present, and the third will be my entry's setup thread, the first two will explain why I am doing this. The past: As many of you know I am a...

Hi, Been having trouble keeping sps's from burning. It was suggested that I feed more and change to dry skimming. In the process of feeding the tank more (fish) I noticed that a problem with some brown slimy type algea dissappeared, been trying to get rid of it by starving the tank, but it...

I've been reading alot about the Phosban reactor here on TRT, and was wondering if people felt it was a good option for controlling/removing phosphate from a system? I am thinking of suckering off for one and wanted to get opinions and advice as to setup, running it, any pitfalls to watch out for?

http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33958 A post to thank himself.

Fellas- I know there are no general rules for coral placement and there are lots of variables. How do you determine when a coral is in it's happiest location? How long should you leave a coral in a certain spot before you decide if it likes it there or not? Some like more flow and more light...