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Reef Tank - Aquariums - It’s actually a reef tank now. Added my first coral!

It’s actually a reef tank now. Added my first coral!

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 05:33 PM PDT

My 65g reef tank

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 07:34 AM PDT

Repost from Reef On. Depending on how my tank is doing I can’t see Anxiety or ADHD

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 11:58 AM PDT

WHAT are those? I litterally got thousands in my refugium.

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 03:09 PM PDT

Light is everything, even at night!

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 03:50 PM PDT

New 10 Gallon!

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 04:21 PM PDT

Round 2 ��

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 07:05 PM PDT

Refugium is exploding!

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 06:49 PM PDT

A short macro/cutaway video of the inside of my Hawaiian Feather Duster’s tube.

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 06:45 PM PDT

[HTT] What are your little tips and tricks that you've accumulated over time?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 08:04 PM PDT

Title says it all. Which unconventional solutions have you come up with? Which piece of equipment or chemical have you found helps certain issues? Tell me all about that thing you figured out!

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They’re not scared of each other anymore. For a while the goby would hide except for feeding time, but he seems to have realized the little clown isn’t a threat.

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 11:59 AM PDT

Replacing the old White and blue light with this. I am very excited!

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 06:42 AM PDT

Help with dosing. Where is my calcium going?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 05:52 PM PDT

My tank is new. About 3 months. 80lbs~ of dead rock that is coming to life, and 10-20lbs of live rock to seed in a 75 gallon tank. I am starting to have some small patches of coraline growth. I have zero corals. A cleanup crew consisting of 10 scarlet hermits and 20 snails and some fish.

I use red sea coral pro salt

Parameters: Ammonia:0 Nitrite:0 Nitrate:15 (Its on it's way down, biopellets) Phosphate: 0.1 (on it's way down, gfo) Alk: 10.3 Calcium: 420 Mag: 1380

I decided since I was getting some coraline growth it would be time to start monitoring calc, all, and mag. And keep them consistent. I initially tested and got a calcium of 380, a mag of 1350, and an alk of 6.9...

I ordered some kalk+2 and began dripping that. My calcium rose to around 460, mag of 1400~ but it had very little effect on my alk.

So I made some diy soda ash and over the course of a week brought my alk up to 11. Hoping if I keep it up there I would get some that accelerated growth I hear so much about when I do get corals. Also, limit fluctuations with water changes since the coral pro has a dKH of 12.3.

Once I got these levels where I wanted them I didn't expect to need to add much, since my tank has very little going on in it. But, I have found that it consumes around 10~ ppm a day in calcium. And 0.25~ alk a day.

I'm not sure where it is going. My coraline growth is just pink and purple speckles around the dead rock. I wouldn't think it would be consuming that much, if any at this point.

Maybe the clean up crew? I dont think they would consume a noticable amount.

I haven't noticed any precipitation in the tank or near the GFO.

Any tips? Should I just keep dosing it up?

My goal was: Calcium 450~ Alk: 11~ Mag: 1400~

Any input helpful. I'm new to this dosing thing.

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Coral ID?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 09:02 PM PDT

Biota YELLOW TANG Captive Bred Fish

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 03:58 PM PDT

Can you help me identify this rock? Not sure if it’s name.

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 06:31 PM PDT

When is it safe to pull off my hob filter?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 08:19 PM PDT

Hello all, I recently moved everything from my 20 gallon into a 60 gallon cube with a 20 gallon sump. I moved my hob filter over as well to help with bacteria. When do you think it's safe to pull the hob filter off? I don't want to throw anything off balance. The 20 gallon was about 8 months old. I moved the sand, rocks, AND water. Everything has been in the 60 gallon cube for roughly 2 months.

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Feeling pretty stupid today :(

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 07:55 PM PDT

TL;DR - calibrate

I've had a 29 gallon FOWLR going since about May. Maybe April. I've used RC salt since I started as I've always intended to get corals. kessil lighting for the same reason. 30% water changes every couple of weeks, water testing once a week or so and everything's great. Checking SG with a refractometer almost daily because I'm a micromanager. I've got a pair of clownfish who have done fine and a few crabs and I've been looking at corals at the LFS.

Made the plunge a few weeks ago to get some, a Duncan and a frogspawn. Within 24 hours the frogspawn had died. Duncan closed up but eating. Test waters, everything's fine. 8.3ph, 79 degrees, 9 alk, no ammonia, 20 nitrates a little higher than I'd like, no nitrites. 1.025 sg.

Last week, I talk to LFS and we decide my lights are on really strong for the tank depth. Turn them down. Duncan still doesn't open. At this point I also decided to add a pincushion urchin because they're adorable. Acclimated for two hours but the last half hour his leg things retracted and he didn't seem to be moving any spines. At the two hour mark I moved him into the tank and he never moved, never stuck onto the rock. Clearly dead. Test waters. 8.3ph, 79 degrees, 9 alk, no ammonia, 20 nitrates still, no nitrites. 1.025 sg. Figured it must've been too quickly acclimated. I have a horseshoe crab as well who has never seemed unhappy so I don't think it's copper, and I'm really not even sure how that would affect an urchin.

In all of this, my original Duncan has not died, though he is clearly not happy. Yesterday I spoke to my LFS again about the water, the coral problems, etc. and told her I was worried that maybe I just needed something that was tolerable with strong flow as maybe my flow is strong??? The lady was pretty sure that if all my Params were as I said then turning the light down should be a good fix and adding a nice little candy cane to my tank would be fine as they're hardy. I start to acclimate him when I get home and literally immediately starts to seem unhappy and recoiled. Decided to acclimate super slow so I spanned it over a few hours, from his bag with his water drip acclimated with tank water into a 3.5 gallon bucket. Candy cane looked sickening the whole time. I love 45mins away from my "L"FS but I genuinely considered driving it back and showing them how quickly he was deteriorating. Instead I took pics and added to the tank.

This morning I woke up and almost all his color is gone, with skeleton showing in a lot of places. Test my water and surprise surprise: 8.3ph, 79 degrees, 9 alk, no ammonia, looking more like 30 nitrates. 1.025 sg......... I am literally about to give up on everything and just tear the tank down and trade my fish for freshwater credits. Do a quick 20% water change to lower nitrates and I fill a Tupperware container of water to drive out to my LFS to have them test it as well as look at some algae under the scope to see if it was Dinos. Grasping at straws but at this point I'm just going to quit anyways.

The owner was at the LFS when I got there and I tell him how I'm melting everything but my fish and coraline and crabs are fine. He's pretty sure for things to die that fast something must be VERY wrong and not likely to be phosphates or magnesium. He starts to test my ammonia and nitrates and ph and everything's fine and then decides to check my SG. 1.038...... I thought he was lying to me. Made him show me his refractometer with calibration fluid. Told him I couldn't believe it because I checked mine twice today with RODI and it was fine, on top of that if my refractometer was wrong wouldn't it be reading way low when I checked bag water?

And then I realized, when I had checked bag water the week of the urchin, it was 1.013, which I thought was CRAZY LOW for a shop, and the coral bag was low too.... if I was getting 1.025 for mine and LFS got 1.038, that means the urchin bag was 1.026, a much more likely number. Bought some calibration fluid and came home to test my refractometer and sure enough it was .013 low. My poor little creatures!!!!

So I guess I learned my lesson to buy the calibration fluid and not the shoddy RODI method.

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can i add a goby to my tank?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 03:23 PM PDT

my tank has been set up for 38 days i wanted a goby but was reading you should wait but i wanted to ask you guys

i also have algae everywhere

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Is this a favia and how do I stop it receding?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 05:25 PM PDT

Color changing DI resin? How does it work, and does it work?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 05:00 PM PDT

I'm a cheap reefer. Well, broke, anyways. The DI resin has been orange/brown for a couple of months now and I've been holding off on a water change because I figured it wouldn't be any good. Just checked with a TDS meter and there's only 3 TDS. I looked online, people have posted that their resin changes but they still have 0 TDS. So is it accurate, or just a way to get people to buy more and replace more often? How does it work?

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Smart ATO is back-filling. The ATO will kick on and send RO water into the tank (like it should) and when it kicks off, will pull the saltwater back into the ATO's RO reservoir. Thoughts on how to prevent?

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 04:50 PM PDT

I thought it was gravity so I moved the reservoir that was originally below the tank to a spot above the tank but the that hasn't changed the situation. I'm up for your ideas because this is frustrating.

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Pulsing xienia in low flow

Posted: 06 Aug 2019 01:32 AM PDT

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