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Just a thread for fun! As the title says, what's your favorite paly or zoa? With pictures! You'd think I should start.... But I'm at work and no where near my tanks right now, sadly... So, someone else start!

So... I came home today and found that my sympodium had melted (or something) overnight.... Any ideas what may have caused this? My only guess is that perhaps a torch that I have near by got it with a sweeper, but I would have expected similar negative reactions from the other surrounding coral...

So, I think some of my zoas and palys have developed a fungal infection, but I am not 100% sure... Relatively though. Here's a picture of one of the 3 frags affected: I would really rather not lose the 3 frags, not to mention I'd like to prevent it from spreading. In my very brief search just...

Was at ShoTanks today just to browse and saw some beautiful fish! Granted, they need large systems, but Matt's got a Majestic Angel whose colors are just insanely vibrant. Very energetic fish too - I couldn't get a good shot of it. He also had this snapper, which really caught my eye, and of...

So.. after having my cube up and running, and having this awesome little sump thing right behind the cube, I am considering actually outfitting it with a proper sump instead. This would, I imagine, require a different return pump, not to mention some plumbing. What would I be looking at here...

So, while I have yet to post my 90g build up, I figured I would finally start a build thread at least. This is expected to be a coral quarantine, along with some permanent residents. There will be no fish in here, at least, not until it just turns into a reef tank and I have a new Coral QT...

So.. I'm setting up a 30g cube with room in it's overflow/mini-sump area for a small skimmer - possibly. Any recommendations? I've been looking at a tunze 9002, but would rather not pay that much for one, and the AquaticLife 115. There's an innovative marine one that looks alright as well. Any...

Any (urgent) help would be appreciated here! My radiant wrasse has been in my QT tank for 6 days. For the first 4 he swam about and looked great. Yesterday he was simply sleeping all day (or until after I'd left for work and went to sleep again before I'd returned), which I found odd, but not...

So Eric (Poidog) had mentioned something along the lines of dosing amino acids for acros as opposed to, or if carbon dosing. As that was on Bretz thread asking for help, I really didn't want to hijack the thread, but was curious about this idea. Any particular amino acid, and dosing...

So, just to start the thread... My zoa colonies have slowly been disappearing, one head at a time... Like, one night it's there, the next it's gone! :( Just a stump is left in the morning. I'm blaming some type of pod, just as I see them on the zoas, forcing them to close, and I believe they...

So, I have this gorgeous, large, 5 - 6 mouthed plate coral (OK, a bit of a deformed plate coral, but still awesome). It used to be puffy and happy with all of its tentacles extended during the day! I was thrilled with it. Then we had that one day a few weeks back that got really hot, and my tank...

So, I'm in the process of QTing my fish, and would like to treat for IPs proactively. I realize I can just follow the directions on the bottle, but I have also heard of people soaking food in it? Should I do that as well, instead, or not at all? If so - how often do you soak the food, every time...

So, I recently (today) picked up some beautiful fish to start quarantining, since it is about 6 weeks until my tank will be out of its quarantine, so I figured I would start a fish QT to coincide. I'm very happy with my purchase (African exquisite wrasse, melanarus wrasse, lyretail anthias, and...

So, I am getting mildly frustrated trying to determine just how yellow/green my salifert solution has turned to then determine if it is closer to the green-yellow shade of 8.0 or the yellow-green shade of 7.7. Often this ends with a shrug and a guess that its close enough. Does anyone have any...

Soo... it's time to change my DI resin, and a filter, but these things are impossible to budge. I suppose not having the wrench to open them doesnt help (bought it second hand and did not realize that was missing). To make it even worse / impossible - having recently gone through shoulder...

There seems to always be something exciting going on with the tank! Unfortunately today, I've got 2 ailing coral making up most of the excitement. My first problem is a lil' bam bam frag I have. It's been closed for 3 days, and to be honest I'm not really sure why. I think it may have been...

Ok, so here's my dilemma. My tank was formerly a fish only under its previous owner. He had used a raccoon faced butterfly to control and mostly eradicate his aiptasia problem. Having removed the raccoon faced butterfly due to the tank also having a crypto infestation, and my desire to have a...

So... I apparently have this rather large emerald crab in my tank. Well, large relative to my other crabs, he's probably almost 2 inches across, and each claw is abut 3/8ths of an inch... More or less, I'm terrible at estimating distance and length. I'm not particularly concerned, he seems to...

Hey, so I've been watching a paly frag I'd had a bit closer, since they had completely closed up and withdrawn ever since I had a ricordea fall onto it while I was at work. I figured the ric had stung it, so the paly retreated and would come out later. Well, that was a few days ago, and the paly...

So, hoping I can get some good advice on this. My dKH is low, and persists in being low - hovering around 6.5 - 7.0. Very rarely 7 actually. Naturally, I would like to increase my alkalinity, and will most likely be using sodium carbonate (baked baking soda), since my pH is also on the lower...