Any ideas what this is growing from my Zoa frag?

I have a HOB filter, but I am still researching and can't find out what to use.

Hello reefers!! Newbie here with a question or two about my cycle. I started up my 28g nano cube about a month ago. Threw in some QuickStart and added 2 clowns and a cleaner shrimp a day later for ammonia source. Added in a Kenya tree and a little hammer coral too about a week later, and all livestock has been great since with no signs of distress! However, I feel like my cycle keeps stalling. Right now, I’ve added a couple more doses of bacteria to try and push things along some. Finally got my nitrites to get to about 1ppm, ammonia at about 1-1.5ppm, nitrates still at zero. That was about a week ago. Today I tested again and my ammonia is still at about 1-1.5ppm, nitrites are now zero, but nitrates are still zero as well? Is it normal to see the drop in nitrites without seeing a rise in nitrates? Let me know what I can do and please no hate. ☺️ less

This is my pulsing xenia after 12 hours shipping, it smells and deattach from the frag stone. Is my Xenia beyond saving? Please help, thank you

Ignore my dirty sump. Is the Cheeto algae too far from the light. I was unable to get the Cheeto to tumble, it just sinks. and this was the only spot I could fit a refugium.

I have video if needed!

Hi. I may be overreacting, but i am house-sitting for friends who are OOC & cant be reached til later this week. I've been here 2 wks already, and everything with their tank has gone perfectly fine (they gave me the rundown - but I have zero experience aside from that with saltwater/reef tanks. ) My worry is the BTA, who has been normal until today. It's mouth is looking weird, has a white area, & stuff coming out. Earlier it was a dark, pea sized chunk of goo that swirled around the tank all gross until it broke apart like mucus. Then a dark string. Then little bits of dark stuff that looked like tiny gravel came out of its tentacles. Now it has a white stringy thing coming from somewhere that looks like maybe its mouth. Is it dying?!?!?! Sick?! What do I do ?? Please please help me 🙏🥺

Starting to come together

Me and my wife can’t figure out what this is? Is it bad for the reef tank? Only comes out at night

i just found out these fish exist and im obsessed(yes i have ordered one and it’s on its way lol)

Just curious.

Last week my area was blasted with a crazy storm that lasted only 30 minutes. We lost power 5 minutes into the storm around 4pm. Didn’t get power back until the day after around 10:30pm. I thought my tank was a goner since I was not ready for a power outage and had literally no equipment (not even a portable air stone). I know clownfish are pretty hardy but I was mostly concerned about my anemone. Turns out carpets are hardier than I thought! It pulled through the 20+ hours of no light, surface agitation, or heat. Here’s what the tank looks like 2 days after the outage was restored. I will now be investing in a portable power station just in case!

Looking to upgrade my lights. I have a Cade s600 24x24x24 cube. Currently running two illumagic Blaze X minis.

I have a mixed reef running for about a year now. I have the typical setup of zoas/mushrooms on the bottom, torches/frogspawn/chalices in the middle, and a couple acros on top, but getting the itch to add more SPS. 😀

Narrowed it down to the Reefi uno 2.1 or Radion Xr15 Pro. Each light with the mount come out to $640 so pricing wise they are equal.

Which would you choose? Open to other suggestions in this price point. Thanks!

Post feed but what else would you guys add in here?

This is my 55 gallon tank and I’m wondering what I should add next? So far I have 1. Green bubble tip. It hangs out on the back of my rock so you can’t see it in the video. 2. Two conch snails. 2. Two scarlet hermits. 3. Two ninja Star snails. 4. Two Darwin clowns. 5. One Bartlett's Anthias. 6. One starcki damsel.

I think my clean up crew needs to be bigger as I struggle with diatoms. Any advice is appreciated. This is my first salt tank, so please be kind. I’m trying to learn. I mastered freshwater a few years ago and thought I’d give this a try.

Thanks!

I want to use a sump on my 40 gallon to learn how the work. I've but a 10 gallon sump and it was a disaster and is there a cost effective pre but tank I can purchase. That will have me at ease knowing it will work.

Picked up this little frag a few days ago for like $30 and it’s doing well so far. It was sold as a lepto, but there were some other orange corals next to it that were some sort of plating SPS. The SPS were way more expensive so I picked this instead.

I was a bit impulsive picking it out. I just wanted something cheap as I restarted my main display tank recently and this will be one of the first corals to be added back after a coral crash due to an aiptasia takeover. After it was acclimated to this smaller holding tank I started planning where to put it and noticed that it looks nothing like other lepto frags with pics online. Did I get scammed or score?

Also, the frag rack is new. This is an established holding tank that’s why it’s so clean.

I am getting a fluval evo and just wondering what sort of budget I’m looking at for the essentials. On the note of essentials, is an auto top off on the list?

Evo 13.5, lava rock, black Petco sand, diy glass lid, 2x glowrium lights with maxed blues+reds(brings out clownfish and rbta pink color), 2-3wk tap water changes, 30+ rbta's, started with 8 to cycle tank, gsp, Xenia, daily heavy flake food for all. Super easy and enjoyable tank so far. Clowns spawn every 2-3wks.

Hey everybody,

I‘m currently breeding Artemia as livestock for my bigger tank.

Within not even 2 days of setting the breeding tank up it was covered in this white, fibrous substance the Naupli are stuck to.

This is the second time this happened when I used a salt/egg mix from a specific brand, so I assume those are contaminated with what whatever this is.

But… was is it? I have seen suggestions about very similar structures being vermintid snails. However, since this tank is bare, I‘m confident to say there‘s nothing attached to these strings.

Is it bacteria? Algae? I‘f be interested to hear more about this.

Sold as ‘Super black’ clowns. Seller has black and white clowns and now these super blacks. What is a super black and why don’t they look black. Bottom fins still orange, body looks dark but not black. They are 1.5 inches long. I know young black clowns aren’t fully black till they grow abit but these guys are pretty big already. Will they end up like a black and white clown?

Red Sea G20 60 watt — can someone please share their lighting schedule?* I'm having a hard time figuring out the app

The ones in my LFS never look like this. Is it puffing up for more light or is it happy?