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Heres a pic of my ora verde a year ago, Nov 2018 and of now, Nov 2019

Let's post progress pics! In order to show coral growth, Post a pic of a coral from a while ago, and one of what it looks like now! Try to include the dates of both pics, If not at least the month/year

For example, I started with lugols's iodine a month ago and I've noticed that since then my mushrooms have gotten huge

What's something you started dosing/supplementing that you noticed had an active positive affect in your tank?

We all know apex of course and the auto top off revolutionized fish keeping, you can program anything with the apex and the ato helped replenish evaporation. Aside from the apex and an ato, what's one piece of equipment that you feel was a gamechanger for you?

Chicagoreefs has a community par meter

As the title states. What are You all using for your clean up crew? I'd love to see the different species people have and why you use them, even If they just look nice

This thread needs pics!! Pull one off the internet if you don't have the coral!

I've always wanted to wash my filter socks, it seems really economical but I'm terrified of the detergent/cleaner that we use getting into it and doing damage to the tank. If you wash them, how do you go about it? Especially in winter where power washing isn't really an option?

I can start. My dream coral is a sunset monti... not the superman or the mystic but the old school orange with green polyp sunset montipora. I just can never justify ordering it online (shipping) and no one seems to have It locally available for sale

As the title says. What's your favorite coral? Could be one you have, have had, or maybe you dream to have! If rarity or cost or invasiveness wasnt an issue. Even if you dont keep coral, which one appeals to you?

Twenty years ago growing corals was JUST becoming a reality. Ten years ago captive breeding anything past clownfish seemed like a dream, let alone tangs. A few years ago they finally bred the 1st captive tang, I believe it was a yellow tang. Another breakthrough happened when they bred the blue...

I'm in! This is cool

Hey guys. So i had my calcium reactor set up and for the longest time it ran flawlessly, only issue was that the media wasnt dissolving. I read up on it and the media we were using wasn't the right one we switched over to TLF ReBorn Calcium reactor media. The first time we set it up with the...

hello! I was wondering if anyone could help me ID and price range a koi i was given with a tank i recently bought? It's a beautiful fish but unfortunately koi don't do well in reef tanks. something about them not getting along with tangs :sarcastic: :rofl1: :rofl1:

hello everyone! after a long email, i convinced my teacher to allow me to start a saltwater aquarium at my school! hurrah! there was an old tank (had been set up and abandoned years before) and it's a 20 gallon tall. i am wondering, what would some good cheap lighting be fore a 20 gallon tall? i...

So recently my open brains went from being large and puffy to shriveled up to the point where the skeleton was showing. A water test showed that the calcium was too high and the magnesium was too low. Ca was 480 and the mg was 1200. I have a 180 gallon so raisin the magnesium is going to...

Hello everybody. Most of you know me because I like to hand around the forum and sometimes post but I spend a lot of my time observing and reading up on new things there are to learn.(I'm shy like that) I currently have a 180 gallon reef set up(I'm planning another thread on it later on) and I...

so in my 125 gallon i have noticed an amphipods infestation, they appeared to have teamed up with my out of control astrea starfish and have started a war against my zoas. they appear to be winning. i plan on ordering a harlequin from reefs2go for the starfish and depending on what people say...