On Thursday, I had ordered a 16 oz bottle of phytoplankton from Jay's reef bugs. My plan was to use it for a copepod culture and to control dinoflagellates once I start my project. However, I had noticed that the phyto has a similar smell to shrimp crackers and I am concerned about it having ammonia. From your experience with phytoplankton, is it normal for it to smell like that? Please let me know as it will be great use later. Thank you.

I don't know how rare this is but I think it's cool!

My rose bubble tip anemone got destroyed by my powerhead even though I had it covered, it still somehow got sucked in the front. I am now in disaster recovery mode. The nem has been tossed, it was a goner.

I did a 10% water change with all the water I had available and am currently making more.

It’s a 15 gallon with 2 clowns and a few other pieces of coral.

Planning to do another ~10% water change once I have water available.

I removed all bits of the nem, water is a bit cloudy but everything seems to be okay for now.

Anything else I should do to mitigate a tank crash? I’m supposed to go out of town in 2 days……

Tank is about 6 months old. I think I have pretty good biofiltration built up, lots of extra media in the back and I’ve never seen ammonia spike.

Hi folks. Uprising from a little Fluval 52 Litre to a 326 Litre tank + sump. It's only cycling a week but it's a combination of new Marco rock and a small amount of rock from my old tank (some still to come but they've soft corals on them).

Parameters now are: NH4: 0ppm NO3: 0.1ppm NO2: 4ppm KH: 5.5 dKH

The new rock was cycling with bottled bacteria and some old rock for 2 weeks (in a tub with heater and powerhead) but the tank proper is up and running a week.

What y'all think? KH will obviously have to come up before I move any corals over and the Clean up crew will need supplemental feeding if moved.

Has anyone had any long term success with these ?

I’ve had 2 now, the first died in QT, the second is now not eating and gone into hiding/exhibiting signs of being unhealthy after being in tank for 2 weeks.

From what I’ve read on here, a lot of people have recently had bad luck with these too, which is strange since they are supposedly quite hard.

Is there a problem with the supply chain quality of recent ?

I noticed my blenny had what seemed to be a wound just beneath his lateral line, I’ve never had this happen before so I don’t know what to do to prevent any disease or sickness. Is there any product I can use to help him?

Friend or Foe?

Getting back in the hobby after many years and I'm working on my sump set-up. I have been researching plumbing for a Synergy Reef TS-34 and I keep seeing these gated nozzles on the returns people are posting. If they add some value down the road I'd rather install them now but I'm not sure what they are for. Can anyone offer me some guidance?

Thanks

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I have a peppermint shrimp who I had to move out of my DT. It started eating my micromussa lords so I pulled it. Does anyone have suggestions on preventing this while still being able to keep it in my DT? I love having diversity in my tank when I can. Should I feed more, target feed? I usually just put my pellet and flake food in a feeding ring for my fish to eat, no frozen.

I’m going to Australia and the GBR in a few months and don’t know what species are there and would like to be able to identify what I’m looking at.

Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of coral, fish, and inverts that can be found there?

I bought this guy about 3 weeks ago and it was opening and doing well for a week. Then I went on vacation and had family members feed the tank along with a light cycle. They sent pictures every day and the gsp was open and good for all the days. However on the last day, they sent a picture and the gsp was closed, my condi anemone was moved near it from its original spot, and my cabbage coral had fell from its spot directly next to it. Ever since it had been closed like this for a week. Could it have been the anemone stinging it? Or could it be irritated from the cabbage maybe falling on it?

So here’s some tank Sunday!

I like it but I cant find the name

We have this little guy for the past 11 months and not sure how much longer he’ll be with us. He watches tank for hours. He’s 14 months old.

12 gallon cube, 81f, been cycling for almost 4 weeks, no nitrites. I poured in ammonium chloride and it’s staying at 0.25 ppm, kinda wanna try a fish in cycle, and just change 20% a day. Any advice is appreciated.