Hi guys! Just one more quick question: we're cycling our 60 gallon tank (currently in week one). My husband and I wanted to add a bunch of beautiful dead coral and cowrey shells that we have collected from Hawaii over the past few years. Is it safe to add these to our tank? We've had them...

Ok so I have a 35 gallon hexagon tank with a fluval 405 canister filter which I clean every 2 months. Our light is a kessel a350 where we have played around with just about every setting. We run the light at 8 hours a day. My tank consist of reef safe hermit crabs, zebra crabs, snails, cleaner...

I have two corals in questionable health. One is a small acropora frag. I wasn't really looking to keep any SPS, but my little yellow clown goby was pissing off all the softies by lounging all over them. Well, he LOVED the acropora, laid on it the moment it was in there and has pretty much left...

I'm still brand new to this reefing stuff, but I bought a used tank with live rock and some other stuff, and it had no coral. I got the tank up and running. It's been about oNE month and this looks like it's coming back to life. Is that possible? And if so what can I do to promote it's life, and...

Someone please help me! I am new to the saltwater hobby, I've had a tank going for about 6-7 months. I started it out in a 30 gal. tank with some pretty weak lighting, but everything was doing great and flourishing. ( the tank was a couple years old and we just transferred it to my house and put...

hello i am new to the reef tank site as well as new to setting up a reef tank but anyways i was plumbing the tank for a sump and used a small 1/2" brass fitting on the out let of the pump (mag drive 7) it was the for about 2 weeks and within this 2 week period i lost almost 80% of inverts and...

i have a Goniopora coral that i got for free the guy said it was damged after i got it home the one side is completley bleached out and there is some tissue damage to the coral my question is, is this harmful to the tank? is it the same as a dying fish? can it cause ammonia spikes nitrates etc...

Hi all, I have a new lobo put in on saturday that is currently dying but it gets worse, i also have a acan, and trumpet doing the same thing...my Zoo's which have been in the tank fos a while seem fine altough they just reopened today(closed all day yesterday) I added the Lobo saturday, he...

I bought my neighbors reef. He's "holding" it for me till my build is complete. He let the water level drop using only a cascade canister on a 150g to reach 1.038SG:mad: This drop exposed the top of this coral to air for I don't know how long. Please ID this coral. Is similar to cup, but no...

My father offered me a bunch of dead coral from his old tank. This tank has been broken down for at least 20 years. What would be the best way to treat this coral before placing it in my tank? Are there any other concerns I should have before using this coral? My tank is in the process of...

i saw a snail (they hitch hiked from a rock i think, were very small but have grown quite large with the body shaped like a cone) on my brain coral in the morning and by the time i looked again the next day the there were three snails on the coral and it was a dead white skeleton...are there...

Hi i moved a piece of my live rock round today and noticed this thing in between the cap in the rock is this dead coral? I know its not a very good picture but best i could get its off my phone. Its in the cap in between the rock looks like a white strawberrys or something was this coral if so...

i am looking for any one that has decent sized peices of dead coral i really want to try and make a garden of polyps like doc has it is really cool i will only break it down to small chunks so looks is no concern and i would like to pick up at the meeting if it is on the ninth if not i will come...

I had made mention of this in a few posts earlier, but kept forgetting to start a new thread on it. So, here goes. My 54 gallon tank was running a little too cool compared to my other tanks. They usually hover between 78 to 80 degrees, but this tank was ranging from 74 to 77 degrees. Of...

while cleaning our tank today my husband somehow:rolleyes: managed to break our red plate coral in two pieces. It is snapped with a clean break. Should I leave both pieces where they are-side by side? will this kill the coral? Anyone else have a clumsy spouse:jester:

I just started my first salt water tank, its a 20 gal FOWLR (well no fish yet, still cycling.) I bought some live rock and it has what looks like dead coral, and then some white fuzzy stuff hanging on the top of it. Looks like white hair kind of. Here is a vid I made of my tank The coral...