r/SaltwaterAquariumClub

First fill of the tank to leak check the plumbing system so far so good only a leak at the bulkhead but have tightened it and it’s good so far will let the system run for a week before draining and starting the rockscape and sand

Hi can I have some advice on this the seals looks good but have noticed some salt creep , ill add some pics and videos

Called Waterbox yesterday and they said my tank should ship out sometime in the next week or so.

I really hope they’re telling the truth because my 10 gallon QT tank can’t really hold much more coral and Reefapalooza is coming up. 😭😎

Anyway, thought I’d finally post something rather than continue to lurk and this update is my excuse.

My Blue Eyed Tang who I had in a quarantine died today and I can’t figure out what may have cause the death of it since it’s been completely active and eating before this happened.

He wasn’t acting erratic or showed signs of sickness, it was eating normally. I can’t see any signs of velvet or ick but you can definitely see dark splotches on its body almost like bruises? Does anyone know what it might be?

QT Tank info:
He’s been in QT for a week and a half, the tank has a heater at 80F with an external filter, some live rock from my sump and I’ve been changing the water every 4 days from my established tank. The tanks parameters were Salinity 35, Amonia 0, Nitrite 0 and Nitrate 10.

Jabba taking her namesake seriously and lounging about

Okay so I posted yesterday about my clown and as you can see it got way worse. I removed him from the tank, put him in a tea pitcher with a small heater and air stone. Inside the pitcher I put a glass on its side so he could hide away from the flow and turned the air stone all the way up to put as much oxygen in the water as I could. He has stopped eating. I really dont know what to do so any help would be appreciated.

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I don't know what to do for this guy.

Ph 7.8-8

Ammonia, nitrates are 0

Salinity is 35

All of which are the parameters I always keep the tank at.

It was sudden and nothing else in the tank seems to be effected from what I can tell.

Reason: Brooklynella Disease

I saw this little fella at the pet shop, and I just couldn’t let it die. It was covered in Brooklynella, and I also couldn’t afford chemical medications. What I did was prepare two separate containers: one with freshwater and one with saltwater, with a salinity of around 1.020. I dipped the fish in freshwater to give the parasites an osmotic shock, hoping it would kill them and also help remove the excess slime and white cloudiness from her skin, allowing hundreds of parasites to be shed.

After 5 minutes, I transferred the fish to the saltwater container and splashed the water to add oxygen since I don’t have an air stone to keep the water oxygenated. I’m hoping it survives. I’ve now left it in the dark so it can rest after all the stress from the treatment. It's currently staying at the bottom of the container, but it's not gasping or showing any obvious signs of distress from the disease.

In the last few weeks I've lost 1 of my Trochus snails & 3 of my hermits.

I don't know if it's for the exam same reasons, as my hermits disappeared, and I discovered My Trochus dead. I've discovered a 2nd that seems very weak. It was on its back and it dropped off the glass when I placed it there. Attached is a picture of said Trochus right before it fell.

My inhabitants are (as of right now):

- 3 bumblebee snails

- 4 Trochus snails

- 2 fire shrimp

- 2 cleaner shrimp

- 1 Randall's pistol shrimp

- 1 electric blue hermit

- 1 toadstool leather (1 week since to tank)

- 2 zoa frags (1 week since to tank)

- 1 Dracula goby

- 1 scopas tang (1 week since introduction to tank)

- 1 leopard wrasse

- 1 Mccoskers flasher wrasse

- 2 bangai cardinals

- 1 elegant firefish

- 2 common clownfish

I very much suspect the wrasse may have had my crabs for lunch.

I also have a refugium with a pod population that's about 4 months old.

225 litre tank. The afore mentioned crabs and snails had been in the tank for about 4 months.

I feed the tank about 40ml phytoplankton into the refuge and 12ml of all for reef into the display on a regular basis.

My fish seem healthy - very active swimming, no aggression between them, fed a couple of times a day, and my shrimps and electric blue are much the same.

The polyps on the coral are a little shy but I'm chalking that up to the fact that they're relatively new.

My Parameters as of right now (as I literally just checked them):

SG (salinity) 1.025

DkH (alkalinity) 9

pH 8.2

Ca (calcium) 380ppm

Mg (magnesium) 1380 ppm

NH3 (ammonia) 0ppm

NO2 (nitrite) 0ppm

NO3 (nitrate) 40ppm

PO4 (phosphate) 0.25

I don't want to see the rest of my tank die but I'm feeling clueless about a diagnosis here.

what the heck💀 i was looking on temu to buy aquatic plants for an expirement and found
puffer fish hatching eggs. honestly, wanna try it out but i don’t know if that’s even possible?

Like the title mentions I'm a complete beginner when it comes to the hobby. Never had any fish, fresh or salt water, this is my tank it is 2 months after nitrogen cycle.

It is the Waterbox AIO 35.2. Their older PLUS EDITION (they have a much better updated one IMO) I'm not currently dosing. I use instant ocean Reef Crystals, it's not the best from what I gather but it's available at my local pet store I can get an emergency supply if I need it and Amazon always runs deals and of course free 2 day shipping.

Equipment: 2 filter socks, sponges, ceramic, activated carbon, a sicce shark skimmer 150, sicce return pump, scuba Preset heater(will upgrade to inkbird and titanium eventually) AI light Prime 16hd, Ai nero 5 powerhead, waterbox mesh lid and nature dimensions ATO with a 5 gallon rodi water bucket. I also got rodi for the house.

I do a 5 gallon water change every week and test daily.

what do y'all think? I'm posting to get tips and constructive criticism specially on my coral placement.

Hi everyone so I’m posting on behalf of my boyfriend, he has a 25-30 gallon cube tank that’s been going for almost a year. He has a Purple Fire Fish that hasn’t been doing well- I’ll post the photos of him. He dosed the tank with Melafix this morning. Unfortunately he doesn’t have a quarantine tank so we don’t have somewhere we can move him to be alone. All water levels are fine, he’s been checking. If anyone has any suggestions we would really appreciate it 🐟

EDIT: Heres water levels: Ph 8.2-8.4, KH 6.5-7 dosing daily, Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 26.5 (elevated, water changing down to 20), Salinity 1.026, Temp 78°F, Magnesium 1400, Calcium 400, Phosphate .07
He’s sluggish and breathing hard, back body curls upwards, he’s eating.

I have a Pincushion Urchin named Rocky. I was replacing one of my wave makers and moved the filter and didn't notice he was practically underneath it eating algae and I accidentally hit him with the filter.. his body is fine but I accidentally squished/broke about a finger print sized spot worth of quills. I feels genuinely so very bad and I'm never going to forgive myself for this- he's genuinely my favorite thing in this tank!

Is he going to be okay? He's alive, he's sitting on the bottom of the tank where I placed him after checking him out. He hasn't dropped his shells or his little 3D printed fish- I've had him for two months and he genuinely refuses to put it down. He's alive but he's not moving much- did I kill him? Is he just in shock? (Pictures were taken during my first initial look at him)

Wanting a coral that’s different but not invasive for my first.

I have a new bubble tip anemone in my tank and its been doing fine until this morning. I see it is all closed up the best it can and one of my clowns will not leave it alone. Is the clown trying to host? Is the clown hurting it? Or is the clown probably not the reason why its closed up at all? I’m still new to this hobby :)