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Reef Tank - Aquariums - A student‘s reeftank. Barely any maintenance goes into it. Loving the tank atm

A student‘s reeftank. Barely any maintenance goes into it. Loving the tank atm

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 03:20 PM PDT

Innocent hitchhiker at my LFS grew to size of my hand!

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 08:20 AM PDT

A few weeks ago I posted a pic of my new Red Sea Reefer 350 and was asked for updates. Well, here is a video of it now that it is up and running

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 11:24 AM PDT

Fluval Evo 13.5 Crocea Clam

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 02:11 PM PDT

What the heck is this!?

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 08:06 PM PDT

Really? (Clownfish are lil' shits)

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 01:22 PM PDT

Baby Snails? Baby Snails!

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 05:24 PM PDT

No Everything Has to Be Blasted by Blue Light to Look Merry- Let's Change the Trend

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 10:19 PM PDT

Is this HLLE?

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 07:17 PM PDT

Help with favites and pavona coral.

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 08:13 PM PDT

I am new to this hobby. My first and currently only 2 corals are pavona and a favite. I've had them about a month. I also have 4 hermits a clown and a cleaner wrasse. Both corals were fine in the beginning. About 4 nights later the favite had his tentacles out and I hand fed him brine shrimp EVERY night. I noticed he was growing and everything. The pavona never ever had his tentacles out or everything about 1-1/2 weeks ago he started browning out. And got worse by the day. So after about 4 days of that I turned the lights up. Then I had a diatoms bloom at the same time just coming on. After the lights going up I ended up calling it S night early and didn't get to feed the favites. The next night I went to feed him and his tentacles weren't out. They have only been out once and only a little out about 4 or so days ago. Threes days after the lights going up the pavona appeared to be covering the frag plug a little more as if it grown a little my girlfriend agreed. At this point it didn't lose much color. Then a few days later it was back to the same old losing color and going all brown. The favites appears the same and to have nothing wrong. Today the pavona appears to have a few spots back as shown in the pictures I'm about to post. What do you guys suggest/tips? My params are:

Ammonia-0

Nitrite-0

Nitrate- Api test strips read 40 and reef master is reading 60. It read 40 last night after water change. I know my tap contains nitrates but I let it sit out for 3 days with 1200 gph powerhead. And it's usually 20 at most I don't have access to Rodi water. :/

KH-off the charts API test kit measures up to 214.8 ppm and I doubled that and still no results so I stopped there which I assume would be around 429.6 ppm and my guess is it's around 500-600 ppm. I don't know much about how high KH can effect and aquarium.

Calcium-500 ppm

Ph-8

Phosphate-0 ppm.

Temp-between 78-80 all day every day

All my results seem pretty good to me expect the nitrates and the KH. I don't know what the problem can be. I really appreciate anyone that took the time to read the long thread and reply to try and help me and I apologize for the long post. Thanks :)

Horrible photos, sorry.

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Tuxedo Urchin Dying

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 03:04 PM PDT

I recently added a clean up crew to my recently cycled tank and everyone did great except for a purple tuxedo urchin. A dozen reef hermits, a dozen turbo snails, 2 fighting conchs, 2 smaller conchs (forget the name) and the tuxedo urchin were added on Sunday. I used drip acclimation for the whole crew, about 30-45mins. Everyone is doing great but this urchin, and I feel really bad because it's like he's suffering but not dying. He's sat in the same spot he was put into the tank, lost a ton of spikes and I see his little feet just barley sticking out in some places. It's been 2 days of him like that and he isn't dead just sitting there -I'm assuming- dying, I'm contemplating moving him to a different tank to see if it helps but I'm really not sure what's going on.

Tank parameters:

170g Red Sea test kit.

Ammonia 0ppm Nitrates <2 ppm Nitrites 0ppm Salinity 35 ppt Temperature 78F PH 8.2, (.1 - .2 drop at night, hoping the refugium will stabilize this eventually)

The trace elements should be pretty good however I haven't gotten a proper test kit yet (just ordered)

I use neomarine salt and the tank has a couple mushrooms, photosynthetic gorg, blue ridge coral, and some encrusting SPS that I can never remember the name of on a frag plug. All the coral look great, showing awesome polyp extension and happy.

Any ideas on what's wrong with this guy and any suggestions on what I should do? Could it be something I'm not testing like alk?

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[ID] Could anyone ID the brown things coming out from under the rock? There's a few more out of frame.

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 07:27 PM PDT

Did this Rhodactis go bounce?

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 06:32 PM PDT

G$P

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 04:01 PM PDT

Wandering nerites

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 06:01 PM PDT

I have nerite snails in my tank and sump. Every couple of days I have to grab the stragglers and return them to the tank. Usually they wander no farther than the outside of the glass, but occasionally one goes on a journey. Today my son found one attached to the body panel of my car in the driveway. My tank is only ten feet or so from the car, but that little bastard must have crawled down to the floor, back up the wall, out the window, and to the car.

That's what I get for leaving the window open when it is raining, I guess.

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So I am new to this, my tank is a month old...last night I found this in the corner of my tank. Currently I have to clowns and a blenny... again really new to this, is this a bristle worm? What’s the best way to take care of it?

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 12:45 PM PDT

First Reef Tank: NUVO 30Long AIO

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 05:41 PM PDT

Shrimp and shrooms.

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 03:15 PM PDT

Removing all my rockwork to syphon all of my substrate to go bare bottom in hopes of fighting off cyanobacteria. 1 and a half hours compressed into a minute.

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 06:21 AM PDT

What’s a small puffer fish

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 08:27 PM PDT

I'm looking for a puffer fish for a fish tank that's about 50 gallons I've looked around at porky pine puffers and such and most of them get about a foot long and that's a bit to big for my tank so if you have any suggestions for me that would be great thank you

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What is growing on my montipora?

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 03:36 PM PDT

Pictures: https://imgur.com/a/0tVnUeu

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It's a frag a got a month ago at a coral show. It had the receding tissue in the middle from the beginning but it has grown over time. The coral overall doesn't seem to be as happy as my other montipora with duller colors. I see slime come out of the Montipora pretty regularly. I thought it might be some filter feeder, but recently learned unwanted Vermetid snails may do the same. There is nothing that has come out of it, but it looks like a hole with something in it. Whatever it might be, it survived a Bayer dip.

What might this be and what should I do? I'm considering glueing it shut. I assume the Monti would eventually grow over it again?

Next to the monti is a chalice and I found this black dot on it recently which may or may not be related. It felt stiff when I touched it.

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Is this Ich or something else on my Goby?

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 11:46 AM PDT

Help? What's coming out of this rock?

Posted: 26 Mar 2019 11:25 AM PDT

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