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Hi everyone, About four months ago I added a pair of juvenile clowns to our 40g mixed reef tank. At the time they were sharing the space with 3 blue/green chromis, a pair of cleaner shrimp, and a CUC (we have a good skimmer). Two weeks ago though, I woke up to find one of the clowns missing...

Hi everyone, I have a 40 gallon mixed reef tank that's been running for about four months. For the past month or so I've had what I thought was a diatom outbreak, and dealt with it by leaving the lights out every third day or so and feeding every other day. It's never gotten better, but for a...

Hi everyone, A few months back I bought a used 40 gallon tank (not assembled), and set it up with a few fish, some basic inverts, and plans to add some soft coral. It came from a hobbyist who is much more advanced than I am, and so I also got his MH light (10 watts/gal) as part of the deal...

Wow, that was a really alliterative title. Hi everybody, We just got a Chili coral frag, and I just wanted to check in to make sure we've taken care of all the major points in terms of caring for it. There isn't a convenient place to put it upside down in our tank, so we laid it in a crevasse...

Hi again, So several weeks ago we had our first and thankfully, only casualty in the tank - a serpent star that only lasted about a day after a big salinity spike we had due to a broken hydrometer. It did the typical, really pathetic starfish death sequence where one by one its legs fell off...

Hi again, We're having some trouble with a particularly reclusive zebra bar goby that we bought about two weeks ago. At first its only tank-mate other than the CUC was a yellowtail damsel what was sold to us as a chromis (we're new to this, we didn't realize). Though it hid immediately on...

Hi everybody, One of the turbos I bought last weekend has been sitting immobile on the sand for the past few days. I thought for a while he might still be alive, but after so much time and no movement, I'm pretty sure he's dead. I picked him up and he looked 'sealed up' inside the opening, but...

Hey everyone, I have a few beginner questions. Some quick background: My housemates and I just set up a 40gal reef a few weeks ago using plenty of live sand and rock. We let it run for a week and saw no change in the toxin levels , so we added some nassarius, let those do their thing for...

Hello everyone, I thought I'd start by introducing myself since this is my first post. I'm a student from UC Santa Cruz in California and I kept freshwater tanks up to 40gal off and on for years while I was growing up. One of my housemates now is a student in the Marine Bio program, and a while...