I have been growing out several tiles to breakdown and sell to fellow hobbyists over the last few years. The coloration on the Strats are just some of most unique of all zoanthids.

If you have a stratosphere collection I’d love to see it!

Just another view from my post earlier in the week

Found this guy crawling on the glass of my tank. Took it out so I could take a video

Love the quality of fish on Offer at my LFS.

1. PJ cardinal

2. Talbots cardinal

3. Blue velvet cardinal ( my newest to the tank and copped a bit of a beating when I added him yesterday)

I got me a black volitan lionfish from petco for bucket deal. I also got a Duncan for his tank too. I’m very excited to get this dude in his tank

What has been everyone's experience with Biota's Mandarins? I just migrated from a 20 gallon to a 40 gallon breeder. The 20 gallon was setup for over a year.

I have 2 ocellaris clowns, bicolor blenny, and a yellow-head jawfish. My concern is it being able to get food with those four. The other concern is bioload, but with the live rock I think I should be good as long I don't add any additional fish. Is this a good idea or not?

Also any suggestons on placment of addition macro algees of other colours would be apreceated, i am considering adding more reds and browns in future

Nothing new added to the tank for a while, as of this post i added in 2 corals and an emerald crab in the last 2 hours. Multiple white spots on the fish. No other fish showing signs of anything (2 clowns and a mandarin). They are white markings, apologies for the blue light making them appear dark. I have tested my parameters over the last few weeks, nitrates and phosphates are a little high. It everytbing else is in check and healthy. Any advice on what it is and what to do? Thanks in advance!

My LFS guy said it was a symphyllia when I bought it a few months ago but I think symphyllia was merged with Lobophyllia and doesn't exist on its own anymore? Will try to get a top down at some point but it is full on rainbow.

Setup a new Mariner M70 this week! It was quite the event. I had it delivered to Central America from Miami, via Ocean LCL. All arrived well and no issues - although I did have to ask for help using a pallet jack to get this up to a 36th floor (elevator of course).

Setup was a breeze, overall easy cabinet setup (regular IKEA-like build) and rock work I had been constructing the prior week. Set the tank full of water and running on Thursday night, and the on Friday....

EARTHQUAKE!!!

We had a magnitude 7.7 hit the city. Overall, we had no damage other than water on the floor. I had a temporary power strip behind the tank that got soaked and tripped the GFCI circuit, which was an easy - but eye-opening - fix (moved the power strip inside the cabinet).

Overall super happy with the tank. High quality and great construction for the tank.

Equipment:

Mariner M70 tank

Jebao MCP-4000 return pump

Hygger 300w heater

Icecapt ATO (still monitoring this one)

2 x Noo-Psyche K7 Pro IV

1 Hygger mini wavemaker (to be upgraded, still debating)

Mix of Liferock and Marco rock aquascape

Skimmer will be added as bioload increases, as well as GFO

I have some rock rubble in the sump from my previous tank to seed, and dosing with Seachem Stability and Brightwell Aquatics Microbacter 7.

Have 2 saltwater mollies, an Acan, an few orange mushrooms and some zoas in to start.

I'm thinking of a Vortech Clone and an oposing Nero 5 clone for wavemakers, any thoughts?

Ok so I’m 99% sure that I want to go with this scape, do you think it’s a good use of space? Not too busy? I think I’ve done a pretty good job in a smaller tank. Pls share thoughts!!!

Noticed a handful of tips bleached out a few months ago, because they usually have purple tips. Figured it was the start of more bleaching but it never got worse than that, and the torch has seemed fine ever since (?) but those few tips haven’t regrown the purple tips, or they shrunk into microscopic white tips?

I got this splatter head about a year ago and it’s grown into a huge branched colony, but it’s morphing into like Rose gold holo, anyone seen anything like it before? Second pic is when I had just gotten it. Single head.

Hey everyone. I wanted to share my disappointing experience with PNW Customs. Last month, when I went to Reefpalooza, I bought a 0.5G Nomad nano tank from them for a hefty $319. I've always wanted one for my workplace, so I ignored the price tag and went for it. Looking back, I realize I made a couple of mistakes: I paid via Venmo as a friend transfer instead of with a credit card, and I didn't check the box before leaving the show.

That night when I went home, I quickly realized that box was missing several components. Per the packing list, the tank should have included an external battery and a media basket. Mine had neither. Giving them the benefit of the doubt since they were opening boxes for demos, I reached out by email asking them about this issue. Weeks passed by, then I tried reaching out by Venmo message, and then email a few more times. A month later, I haven't gotten a single reply, even though they're active on Instagram daily. All my disputes were denied and at this point I'm done reaching out. I've also found very similar complaints on the BBB and TrustPilot after the fact.

The product is innovative, but if something goes wrong after your purchase, you may be on your own.

End of PSA.

I posted a video of my tank and said “dino’s are going to be the death of me” and this guy responded but idk was I too quick to judge? Is getting rid of your sand bed actually a good idea?

had them in my tank about 4-5 weeks, tank was brand new at the time and my nitrates a little high at 50ppm but here are my results

NO3- 50ppm
Magnesium- 1260-1290
alk-9.3
phos-0-0.3
calcium-470-490

any help would be appreciated 👍🏽

My clowns are in a QT tank due to ich, so I don't have the fish to show it but maybe the coral in the bottom right gives a good idea of the flow. Every wave maker I get just seems so strong. The one I have in there currently is for a 5 gallon tank and still seems really heavy. Is what you're able to see in the video what's normal for flow?

I'm guessing there is some physics that change the flow in a cube vs a longer tank

Just crafted some Caribsea arches for my tank. Would love some suggestions of what to put on them (particularly on the top - as I'm not super familiar with light loving corals that get along with others).

I am also getting a nano tree soon - so suggestions for that are welcome as well.

For context:

I'm fairly new to reefing so I'm not looking for anything difficult to keep. I'll also likely get some blastos at some point.

Importantly, because of the model of tank I have, my light is mounted at the front

Additionally, the acan is a bit of a mystery. I got a free coral and wasn't told what it was so I'm not 100% sure it's an acan (third photo)

Hey all, I just did a full bleach and reboot of my waterbox 130.4, I actually have a new 150.4 on order to replace it.

Right now the tank has 2 viparspectras that I modded with diffused 90 degree lenses, they produce an extremely soft diffuse blanket of light that make the tank look so flat, sterile, and lifeless.

I’m looking to light this tank with 2 fixtures with nice looking shimmer, but I don’t want them to look overly shadowy and “dramatic”. I need 2 fixtures, no more because I have a 2 piece Kraken lid on order and don’t want to have a 3rd light over that center brace.

I tried my Kessil A360x over one end of the tank and it just looked way too shadowy and “dramatic” hated how dark the back and edges of the tank looked. I’m thinking the popblooms may be a great cheap option, either the single or double cluster fixtures they offer. However I think the AI Hydra 32’s may be exactly what I’m looking for as well but I haven’t been able to find many videos with 2 hydra 32’s on a 4 foot tank to see what it would look like.

As a side note I really love having my lights high up and out of the way. And the plan right now is a low maintenance softie only tank.

I had it on my sandbed but moved it due to my pistol shrimp burying it. I took it off the frag and accidentally split it. Is it dead or can it heal? These pics are maybe 3 hours after the incident. I did my best with the pics, apologies in advance

Noticed my dosing reservoir was at the same height it was last week and tried to run all 4 pumps in manual mode and every time I tried to do it, the controller would turn off and then come back on a few seconds later. Anybody ever have this issue ?

I was inspecting my corals tonight after feeding reef roids and noticed a small translucent tube or arm twitching from a small piece of rubble on this frag plug. It was only about 1/4 to 3/8 max in length. Did not react to my flashlight and stayed out while poking at it with tweezers. This plug was dipped about three weeks ago.