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Can someone tell me whats going on? My clove polyps seem to be thinning or dying! They are a few inches off the sandbed in medium flow. LED light Mag: 1350 Alk: 8 dkh Calcium: 450 Ammonia: 0 Nitite: 0 Nitrate: 20 Phosphate: 0.03

I'm starting anew tank 55 gallon mixed reef with sps one clam and bubble tip anemone. Gonna have softies as well ( gonna be a 50/50 split between softies and sps) but I need a good strong powerful light. My first option aquaticlife 4bulb t5. BRS has a mh system for 240 and comes with bulb and...

Hi I added my first coral today only a softie it did shrivel up in the bag but after about an hour in the tank it opened up my question is iv placed it inbetween two rock so it doesn't blown away will it be ok or should I move it?

hey guys, so i got a bare corner in my tank that i want to place a coral in, only issue is that its really low flow but is in direct light. It would also be sitting on the sand bed, atm ive mainly got lps + a mushroom & BTA that are doing great but cant seem to find anything besides other...

I probably should have taken this picture with my dslr but it was much quicker with my phone. I just wanted to get some general feedback on my tank. It is the first reef tank I've ever setup myself and yes I know it's too small for the fish but I'm getting a 50 gallon next month.

Can some one tell me if it's ok ? I'm a little worried . :( hope it's fine and it's normal . I tested the water and everything's define I don't know what else it could be . And I have a metal halide .

Looking to see how much gfo I should start with for a 75 gallon mixed reef. I've just came off biopellets and don't want to shock the system. My sump is a 15 gallon. Am going to use a phosban 150 with a maxijet 900. I have some sps frags that are sensitive to any changes. tankjunkie

After hours of research online and browsing, I have found that softie/LPS tanks are few and far between these days due to people wanting to keep the hard SPS corals. I have decided to make my 46gallon bow front a soft/LPS coral tank only because the softie tanks I have seen online are gorgeous...

Hey guys i just purchased my new Kenyan Tree! Yay ;) haha so he's in the tank now but i saw at my lfs a neon green and blue baby florida ricordea and i was wondering if it was a good beginner coral for me and my tank!!! So if anyone can help me i would be very grateful :rotflmao::rotflmao:

I have a bubble/mushroom combo rock. I am wanting to do two species specific tanks, LPS only and softie only. I was wondering what tool to use to cut the live rock in half so I can safely remove the bubble coral without cutting through the skeleton, and leave the mushrooms unharmed as well...

Hey guys, I have a 6 gallon nano reef with a bicolor blenny and a royal dotty back and i was wondering what kind of big flashy corals i could get for a small tank! I like Kenyan Tree Corals because of they size and look or is there something easy for a small tank and a beginner like me?! :read:

Hi!! I just got this rock with hairy mushrooms about 3 days ago and they seem to be doing good in the tank. I noticed one of the mushroom was looking kinda weird when it open up, in the first picture the mushroom on the bottom left, it seem like the white part kind of hanging on to the mushroom...

I live in the blackshear area and i'm new to reefs i pick up my first bits of coral friday and i was wondering if anybody would give me some tips and stuff that lives around here? =D

Hello everyone, I have a well-established nano tank and lots of soft coral: colt coral and mushrooms, mostly. I have a few mushrooms who have looked weird the last few days. Their stalk is bubbling out and almost looks to be inside out. This has looked like this for a few days. It's not all...

I finally made the leap and made my tank a reef tank! i just need help identifying what these are and hopefully there latin names. Thanks in advance LFS Labled this fuzzy mushroom LFS labled this glow mushroom and yes it glows like crazy1 and of course All are doing fantastic and loving...

Trying to decide if I want to do a softie only reef or a FOWLR in my 125. Need something less labor demanding than my 75 reef that I taking down. Now I like FOWLR in the fact that I wont need to to update my lighting (two) 2x36'' fixtures. Warning I am rambling outloud!! I like Triggers as...

Can someone ID this mushroom for me. I got this from a local club member as a very small frag and it has been doing well, until the last ouple of days. I have switched from pc to T5ho and it isn't opening up like before. Just wondering the requirements of the shroom before I decide to move it.

Ok, this was supposed to be a new frag tanks but I was allowed to opportunity to "commandeer" the Sandlapper frag system. I was planning to tear down the tank but guess what... my wife loves it and does not want me to take it down. :bigeek: So instead I decide to place all of my softies in the...

My ORA Loco Lobo Lobophytum has grown a bit since I bought it, and I'm trying to decide if I should try to frag some off or let it be. Your opinion, and advice on fragging softies (I'm successful fragging SPS, never fragged a softy) if you have had success. Firs pic is 3/08 second is 3/09 it has...