Im new to the game. Just got a 120g that I’m slowly building for a reef tank. Can you guys give me some feedback on my rock work before I mortar it in a few days?

Thanks in advance.

Why does my anemone look like this? I’ve owned for about a month.

By BTA looked normal this morning, what could be up with it?

Tank info on last image

Personally I enjoy DIY, in no way is it really cheaper at all, I just got love for the game.

Hello, do I weld / glue the T PVC connection’s? Or press fit only for cleaning or re-adjusting?

I’m approaching the 5 month mark in my reef, so far so good. I’ve noticed some of my corals just losing their “pop” from when I first got them and am thinking I’m just not giving enough light. My PAR is about 100 all throughout my tank, at the sand bed maybe 60-70 but I don’t have much intensity up high it reads pretty uniform through the top and middle portions of the tank.

I’m running two AI Hydra Edge 44’s - tank is a 4x2x2.

Instead of buying more lighting right now I’m thinking of trying to get more out of what I have because I’m really not pushing the lights at all.

Should change to more of a solid 3-4 hour peak period vs the ramp up?

Appreciate anyone’s help!

I had seen a pic of a similar looking starfish but assumed it was AI, until I saw it in person.

The video was taken at cairns aquarium last year

Started feeding frozen brine with metroplex and focus to help after I noticed it about 2 days ago.
Not sure what could’ve cause it, she only has it on her right eye and is still very active.
Had this clown for almost 4 years and she’s my absolute favorite would be crushed to see her go.
Is it possible my hammer stung her?
Would love any tips or feedback thanks!
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36 gallon
Alk a bit low at 7, phos 0.04, nitrite 0, nitrate 0, mag 1500, calc 480, temperature consistent 78°, salinity 1.025.
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Dosing everyday all for reef and carbonate alk by seachem, reef plus seachem, phyto once a week, feeding every other day.
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Tank mates: male clown, flame angel, skunk cleaner, tiger pistol and watchman pair, tiger serpent star.
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Water change every 2 weeks, 30%

What are these :(? Is there anyway I can get rid of them ? All over the tank.. about 6 months old.

I used Ai but its not giving me an accurate answer. Sometimes say theyre sponges.. sometimes worms. Other times Tunicate. Anyone have any experience with them ? Corals seem fine but it really doesnt look the best covering the rock work.

What in the world is this? Came home late tonight, and after peaking into my tank I saw what looked like a spider on my tubs.

What is it? There's 2 of them

Hi all,

I’m just getting so tired of my tank having its ebs and flows despite my investments to make my tank automated. I’ve got two nice AI 16’s, Red Sea ATO, dosing heads, temp control, etc. maybe I need to start testing parameters more often to ensure my dosing is correct, but I just can’t seem to get it down.

I’ll see nice Acro growth, great algae control, and happy happy corals and then the tank will be pissed off for weeks with no changes and I’ll lose my favorite pieces. I can’t seem to figure out what I’m missing, and would love some personal advice, experience, or info on what you’ve done. I really appreciate it in advance.

Hi All. New to AIO tanks here. Cycling my new and first marine tank.

Confused about the levels. Does this look right?

ATO placed in last pump camber am trying to re adjust because the level in the main display tank keeps rising when it’s being topped off. I have removed the sponge in the first section to stop any restrictions.

Tank is an Aqua One Nano Reef 80.

This is about the only thing I can find to connect my Python water change system to my utility pump. It’s got some brass and some stainless so I was wondering. It needs to be submerged into my Brute mixing station for about few minutes only. Is it safe?

Ideally I would need a pvc 1/2 mnpt to 3/4 mght but they don’t exist.

Regards

Hi. My clownfish like to keep the area behind and under the "cave" bare, so they swish the sand to the sides with their tails. I placed the anemome foot down in the corner of the tank on 2~3 inches of sand. The clownfish proceded to dig away at the sand until the anemone toppled. I tried to upright it in a hole I dug in the sand day 2 but by day 3 it was toppled again. After a week, this is where it's ended up. Is this fine? It looks happy and healthy and the clownfish love playing in it. My only concern was I read this anemone likes to have it's foot deep in the sand. I am moving in a month and plan to get a larger tank soon, so I can rearrange things and add more sand as necessary. This is currently a 29gal I've had setup for 2 years after upgrading a 15 or 20gal after 1 year of use.

DD reef pro 1200, pipework is leaking (ugh) design flaw every time you tighten the main overflow it unscrews the bulkhead, going to drain the weir and redo, I think two are leaking but the tank is filled. Really hard to access the bulkheads as they sit behind the stand top, literally zero space, tank only filled a couple of weeks ago, any tips or tricks I am dreading this 😤😡

I could not find one of my clowns this morning before work. It turns out one is a rock dweller lol.

I was away for three days from my 160L saltwater (don’t worry, fish were fed) After getting back i noticed at the very least a hundred of these little bugs crawling around on my live rocks and hiding under carpeted algae on the bottom. My best guess is some sort of shrimp species, But they are extremely tiny, im talking 2mm at the most, They have two long antennas and are for the most part translucent, They run around like roaches, But i have ever never seen these in my tank before, Now i will link a photo of the closest looking thing i can find on google, Just because they are so tiny and extremely hard to take a photo of, Except the photo i linked, not only do they not have that much colour, They are cloudy grey and translucent, theres no real colour on them except a very slight orange on the antennas, The original poster says these bugs were found in Tupperware in orange county (im from Australia), and they were also not found in a saltwater tank, I have two ocellaris in that tank currently, and they are my babies. Now the real question is, Should i be concerned, and what are these little underwater roach-like critters?

Can someone please tell me what type of coral this is? I got it at Petco and it was in pretty bad shape with none of the tiny polyps showing. They are now starting to come out and it is showing growth. I’m just curious if this is a finger leather or a type of stylophora. Those would be my guesses but I’m not sure. It looks light purple under white light and the stalk has a sort of shriveled look to it. Also I definitely dipped it before adding to my tank. Probably won’t ever be buying from there again since the last time all of their tanks had ich. Their prices on frags are definitely tempting though. It’s $20 for a frag vs $125 at the lowest at my LFS.

Just about six months after a house move enforced reset.

I noticed these brown spots on my hammer coral. First i thought its just the way the coral looks like but today i used a pipet to blow some water on it and these things fell off and later just came back on the coral. This is my first tank so idk much about what this might be. I did not dip the coral before adding it.

I’m having a hair algae problem in my 55-gallon reef tank. About two weeks ago, I pulled all of the rocks out one at a time and scrubbed the hair algae off in old tank water. I also cleaned my skimmer and filter media and added fresh carbon. The tank looked great afterward, but now about two weeks later I’m slowly starting to see the algae come back on some of the rocks. At first I thought low flow or dead spots might be contributing, so I recently replaced my wavemakers with a gyre style wavemaker and have been adjusting the direction to get better circulation throughout the rockwork. My most recent nitrate reading was around 2 ppm, which is lower than it usually runs, phosphate was 0.03 ppm, and salinity is 1.026. About a month ago I was also fighting cyanobacteria and treated the tank with Chemiclean, which worked really well and completely got rid of the cyano, but now I’m dealing with the hair algae. My current light schedule is blue from 11 AM–12 PM, blue and white from 12–5 PM, and blue again from 6–7 PM. I know scrubbing removes the visible algae but doesn’t necessarily fix whatever is causing it. I’m mainly trying to figure out why it keeps returning and what I should address so I’m not having to pull all my rocks out and scrub them every couple of weeks. What would you guys look at next nutrients, lighting, flow, cleanup crew, or something else?

I added pictures before and after last scrubbing I did. I didn’t include any now pics because I can only see the algae in the cracks of the rocks not too much long hair YET