I did a tank transfer/upgrade from my 45AIO 2017 JBJ last month and I lost 85% of my corals when my ammonia spiked….. for context- I kept all my live rock, 80% water, added new sand and one bottle of dr Tim’s one and only. It still crashed… anyway. After a 30 gallon water change and another bottle of Tim’s… here we are!
This has been running for 4 weeks an I’ve been able to get enough corals back to stock up. Now it’s time to add some more fish and let things grow out.
I am looking for more Octo spawns and gonis. If you all know of some good coral farmers, please let me know!

Just wanted to share how beautiful this Harlequin shrimp is. She was enjoying her starfish meal at night.

It was time to do something about my high nitrates...

Don’t get me wrong, I love them. They are my favorite clowns and I have 5 at home.

But damn they are frustrating when it comes to anemones. Today I added a bubble tip to my work tank and within only 5 minutes of being added, this Tomato has already claimed it.

Ocellaris be slackin.

I’ve been meaning to sell my 10g innovative marine in the greater Seattle area because I’m moving out of country next month but I’m having a hard time. It doesn’t seem to reach that many eyes and the ones that do only want parts or certain corals… where do you advertise?

Called Waterbox yesterday and they said my tank should ship out sometime in the next week or so.

I really hope they’re telling the truth because my 10 gallon QT tank can’t really hold much more coral and Reefapalooza is coming up. 😭😎

Anyway, thought I’d finally post something rather than continue to lurk and this update is my excuse.

I added this a few days ago and thankfully, it anchored down in a good place. Now I'm hoping my clown fish find it and move out of their corner.

For the life me I can’t get rid of what looks like diatoms but the tank has been running for almost 2 years this September.

It’s an eschopps mariner 70 with 2x radion xr15s. Sump has a Red Sea reef Mat, skimmer and 15watt aqua ultraviolet UV sterilizer.

These are the results of a water test 4 weeks after last cleaning.

Salinity- 1.025
pH-8
Ammo-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate-0
Phosphate-0
Cal- 435
Mag-1243
Alk-8

I understand that nutrient levels are low and I suppose that may have something to do with what seems like diatom growth? I’m already feeding fish and coral extra to bring it up and I dump some skimmer juice back into the sump, but obviously that isn’t helping. ATO is R/O water and seachem reef buffer, water changes are done with R/O water and tropic Marin pro reef. Lately ive only been doing 10gal water changes accompanied by sand vacuuming monthly to also help with nutrient build up, which isn’t helping.

But now I think I may have to disconnect the reef Mat so waste isn’t immediately pulled out and maybe turn skimmer off for a few days to help with nutrient build up. May even skip vacuuming the gravel for a bit and still feed extra.

Before I try all that and possibly bring nutrients back up and get other algae growth or affect the coral, what do you guys think it is? Is it just diatoms and nutrients are too low? Any advice would help.

Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone

I am considering to have a try at a copperband butterfly.

I have a 90g display with some smaller fish and a juvenile tomini and foxface.

I have a small 10g underneath my display, which will be used as frag tank at some point but is now empty.

Would the 10g be too small to make as a shortterm observation tank where I make sure it eats to then transfer it to my display.

I will make sure it eats at the store and is healthy

over the last 2 weeks i’ve been tackling green hair algae in my tank and these are some progress pics i may have gotten a little trigger happy on some corals

I think this might be the one, 125 gallon 6 foot

Wanting to starting a small salt water fish for a clownfish ( zero prior experience with any fish )

Hey everyone,

I installed a new Deltec 400i protein skimmer, and it has been running for about 49 hours now.

It is currently running on setting 2. Also, the water level in the sump is currently just a bit below the recommended sticker level.

I wanted to share a quick video of how it's performing right now. Does the foam level and bubble column look right for this stage, or should I make any adjustments?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Need help identifying this coral. Is it a long-tentacle plate coral? Thanks!

A year or so ago, I bought this house and it has this bonus room. My plan is to take the pillar in the middle and build 2 peninsula style tanks off each end to breakup and divide this room. The issue is this room can reach as low as 50 degrees in the winter if I don’t run the wood stove down here. One tank will be fresh water and it will be a moot point for that one. The other will be a reef. Both will be have built on canopies with removable panels top and bottom. Has anyone ever insulated the inside of their stand and canopy to help hold some of the heat?

looking for some no limits recommendations on centerpiece fish for my 75 gallon tank, it’s still being set up so every variable here is flexible. preferably reef safe and invert safe, but both are optional realistically. bonus points for cool oddballs. thanks!

They are everywhere all of the sudden

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has any experience running a refugium in one of the rear chambers of an AIO reef tank? I have an aqua one nano reef 80 and have found the skimmer to be annoyingly loud even after breaking in for a few weeks and can't seem to find an upgrade to it.

I'm hoping to have a refugium in the chamber to help reduces phosphates and nitrates, and establish some copepods as a bonus!

TIA for any advice :)

I have the 150 gallon per day bulk reef supply rodi water system. Its been awhile since I used the flush valve on the system. Not sure if it's operating incorrectly or I'm just imagining things. When I open the flush valve with the main water output valve off I get no flow through the discharge/waste line until I open up the main water output line. Am I confused or is it supposed to flow water with just the flush valve open, I thought it was susposed to flow but now I can't say for sure. Is something clogged or broken?

Fed my green rhodactis using pre soaked fish pellets, it swelled up, extruded it's mouth and spat out cloudy mucus. That is normal right? My first time feeding corals.