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[SIZE="2"][SIZE="1"]My tanks is suffering from a mini crash and I cannot seem to get it locked down. I introduced some frags a month ago and all but one is alive. I got this elegance coral at the same time and up until a week ago it was doing great. All the frags I lost were sps that stn'd...

My 14 gal biocube crashed, I was using a media basket with purigen, I recharged it and I guess I should have used more prime, I killed my tank. I was able to save my clowns and my damsel. I removed the bodies and replaced the water with RODI and have just been keeping the water moving while I...

Hi folks, In the past 4 years I have had more struggles with my tanks that I had in the 10 years prior. Part was due to personal struggles... the ohter: Magnets. I am going to remove all the magnets I can. Ok, lets be clear... we use magnets in our tanks all the time and often without issue...

Live in key Largo. Evacuated during hurricane Irma. I left my 75 gallon reef tank with battery backup air pump but it was not enough to last the 4 days i was away. We were finally allowed to come back on Tuesday and found house without power, all fish dead. Only life in my tank are a few corals...

So about two weeks ago, my Therm. Geo Heater decided to malfunction and raise my temperature to 96 degrees. When I seen the temperature, I immediately took out my green carpet anem. Its the only "coral" that lived. I did a 55% water change, and my LFS told me to do a dosage with Microbacter(7)...

my 90 gal ops softy reef had a power outrage and crashed.... well all the fish except my 2 clown pairs and shrimp died.. a lll corals are fine.. now i want to restock.. what are the suggestions.. they must include a tomini tang :dance:

As some of you may have seen, I had my tank crash over the last couple of days. My tank went from being perfectly healthy to losing all my fish beside 1 cloak at this point. I'm looking for some help at this point to see what I can do to get this tank back up and running properly. Unfortunately...

About 6 months ago I vacation internationally for a month and I was wondering if it were to happen again, what would I do with a reef tank? I can always get an ato, auto feeder, but what about water changes? My lights have timers so I should be good.

Hi guys, got some bad news, I added a bunch of corals a while ago and everything was great, but I had a Capnella species (Finger Coral Silver) and it wasn't looking flash. It started to turn black in the tank. At this point my levels were 0 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 40 Nitrate 1.023 Salinity 25c Temp...

I have a 55 Gal tank with 2" of sand and tons of live rock along with another 5-10 gallons in a sump/skimmer set up. The tank has been running for 6 months, was cycled, and working fine for a while. Has a lot of coraline growth on the glass, rocks, etc... I have three clowns, a raccoon...

Hi all, So I've been running a Fluval Edge 12 gallon for the past 6 months, and in that time I've had two major crashes. I don't understand the reasoning behind them and was hoping someone could help me. The first time, I had a clown, 2 small bubble tip anemones, an anemone shrimp, and a...

Hi all, So I've been running a Fluval Edge 12 gallon for the past 6 months, and in that time I've had two major crashes. I don't understand the reasoning behind them and was hoping someone could help me. The first time, I had a clown, 2 small bubble tip anemones, an anemone shrimp, and a...

ok so a month ago my snails died becuase of a heat wave and my tank rose to 90degs now i only had snails no fish so i removed the dead snail but i havnt changed the water in a month (i kinda lost interest for a month becasue of the heating/cooling issue) anywho my pumps have been running for...

Hi im in montreal and we just suffered a horrible heat wave and its getting hotter i have a 10000btu ac that was not able to cool my room (with aquarium) and the tank go up to 90f the snail i have are probably dead form the looks of it (they fell off the glass and when i turned them over they...

hello,:wavey: im finally back in business. my tank imploded about a year ago due to my fiance placing a brass valve on my return line:bawling: which quickly deteriorated everything but my fish. then when he was removing it as told he placed too much weight on the corner of my sump causing it to...

I have a 190 gallon acrylic tank. It sits on top of a furniture quality stand. My 29 gallon sump is not cutting anymore so I bought a 40 breeder. It does NOT FIT. the middle brace between the front doors is in the way. I was going to drain the tank but the top of stand is solid...

Since I see a lot of folks pointing to the Smithsonian for certain methods and now that I have pictures of the "sign" beside the tank, I think it is good to create a record of the Smithsonian's tank. First of all, I am amazed at the issues the tank seems to have (still). It looks like it...

Long story short I had a problem with my 55 gal tank and it crashed. I let it sit for a couple of weeks just because I didn't have the money at the time to do a massive water change and get it back up and running. Anyway it started to grow some green algae. On the glass and on the rocks. I can...

Hi need help figuring out what's wrong. I overstocked too fast with my last 3 fish purchase and seems like everything is about to die... (sorry for the long post, i want to get all the details out) Aug 24 started cycling with dead shrimp September 8 all parameters were stable, confirmed by my...

ok, folks, this is tough... my 40B is crashing... actually it has been for some time (I am guessing 3 weeks). It is a slow systematic crash affecting all corals but in slightly different ways. Ok, a few weeks ago, I noticed that some corals were loosing color. My orange digi was the first. I...