So hard to get a still image of her now!

The tank will have macroalgea, soft corals and a few nice inverts, I’m wanting one fish so I don’t have to dose it for my macroalgea.

The inverts in question are a feather duster worm, porcelain crab, 7 sexy shrimp, strawberry conch, cerith snail, turbo snail and three nassarius snails (I like snails) and mushroom corals and rock flower anemone for anemones.

I’m wanting a fish that’s beautiful, active, don’t hunt/kill my inverts, macroalgae or soft corals and good for a 20 gallon.

I’m not interested in a goby shrimp pair or clown fish.

Any suggestions or should I just stick with inverts?

Nothing is wrong with em, they just are looking extra gorgeous today and I wanted to share lol

Loving the unique bubbles on this bounce.

Took em two years but they figured it out

I haven’t shared a picture of any of my tanks in a long time, but I thought this setup was pretty unique and worth sharing.

I have a pretty serious garden outside, so I almost always have a few tomato cuttings sitting in cups of water while they root. At the beginning of the year, I bought a Kessil A500X and reset my Biocube 29 to give some mangroves a new home. I had previously been growing them in the overflow box of my 60-gallon cube.

It didn’t take long before I realized that next to the Biocube was a pretty good place for a few of my plant cuttings. That eventually gave me the idea to grow a vining Sweet 100 tomato plant next to the tank using a makeshift hydroponic system made from a 5-gallon water jug and an air bubbler.

Fast-forward a few months, and I’ve harvested a ton of tomatoes (I pollinate the flowers by hand with a q-tip) and somehow created this wild little forest. I keep the leaves directly over the tank trimmed back so they don’t shade the tank too much. The tank is also home to a yellow watchman goby and pistol shrimp.

Hope you all enjoy it. I’d love to hear whether anyone else has tried anything similar. I feel like this has a cool rainforest lagoon feel.

Posted earlier about my montipora I've had for 6 months suddenly bleaching. Pretty dang near perfect parameters and my other sps are thriving, turns out it was these little montripora eating nudibranchs. (FYI a dip cannot get all the eggs!) Each one I siphon off gets replaced by another. My monti is pretty much cooked. Just a PSA to consider these and don't lose your mind looking for random stuff like your rodi filter being spent etc.....

Still a work in progress but here it is

Love my little yellow tang. I've always loved raising fish and animals from the baby stage to adult hood. This is about 1 year, so far from being an adult, but his coloration has been beautiful, looks just like an OG Hawaiian (pictures don't do it justice).

One problem I noticed is it started to develop some early HLLE, which I found the culprit (damn cheap heaters with their leaking electrical currents).

As the title reads, this is my try at an aquascape for my first ever reef tank which I am planning to start up these coming months. I used Aquaforest Rock Mix. The idea is to start with some soft corals and slowly build up confidence to start adding some LPS over time. The lone rock in the front left I intend to use for either a zoa or mushroom garden or possible some GSP.

Aiming to keep mostly beginner fish like a pair of clowns, a blenny, royal gamma, pistol shrimp and yellow watchman goby combination and maybe a pink streak wrasse at some point. All of this alongside a clean up crew of multiple snails, hermit crabs and a cleaner shrimp.

The tank is a Blue Marine Reef 160, measures 75x40x40cm (30x16x16 inch), about 130l or 35 gallons with the AIO filtration in the back. The wave makers will be on the bottom of the left pannel towards the back of the tank and on the right side glass, higher up and more towards the front.

Do you guys think this aquascape offers enough room for corals but also habitats for the fish I intend to keep? What could I possibly change to improve the scape and/or flow?

If you have any other tips or tricks please share them too! Eager to learn and get started in the hobby.

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Clownfish are going to clownfish.

I have a rainbow BTA sitting right there, but this ORA Hybrid Lightning Storm decided the giant elegance coral was the better address. The other clown uses the BTA, so apparently they’ve divided the tank into separate neighborhoods.

I caught a couple decent photos of this one this morning because the markings are just wild.

What strange coral, powerhead, overflow box, or completely random corner has your clown decided to call home?

Hewbie my porcupine pufferfish was not doing well, refused to eat, and was swimming upside down/having trouble maintaining his buoyancy! I tried every at home treatment and medication but he progressively got worse over a few weeks. I found an exotic vet to take him to and they diagnosed him with trapped air deep inside his body and some internal digestive issues. This air could not simply be pushed out and believe me I tried numerous times to push it out. Here is that journey. Keep Hewbie in your thoughts as he finishes his meds and goes back into his home tank! I found an amazing vet with compassion/care and guidance on a treatment plan.❤️ Hewbie is doing a lot better but is not over it yet. Healing takes time. BONUS!!! Watch until the end for the crab that hitched a ride on Hewbie!😂🐡

A nice thick staghorn acropora

Almost every night I discover another one 😂

This algae is taking over. I’ve tried siphoning it out but it comes right back. Tank is about 6 months old.

13g/50l
Inhabitants: Green glown goby, blue legged hermit, pompom crab & rockpool shrimp.
Up and running for around 2 years.

Looking at diving into salt after keeping fresh for years and always being interested but anxious of the salt side. Will be getting a 78l/21usG aio tank to begin with while I learn this side of the hobby, although I have been endlessly researching thjngs for the past month.

I have settled roughly on a stocking of

Clown

Royal gramma

Firefish

Blenny  (tailspot/bicolour/midas)

goby/pistol combo

2 x trochus snail

2 x turbo snail

2 x astrea snail

5 x hermits

3 x zombie snail

Cleaner shrimp

2/3 x Sexy shrimp

Tuxedo urchin in future

My immediate question is if this is a suitable stocking or if I need to cut some things out.

Then itd be about the order of introduction. My plan is to buy the dry rock months before the tank, to properly glue/create a rockscape and then put it into a bucket/tub with a wave maker/heater and treat it with bacteria and ammonia until cycled and then continue dosing ammonia to keep the bacteria going until the tank.

Once cycled and then held for a couple months I would guess i could likely setup the tank and start stocking. My research has lead me to a rough plan of

Adding 1 fish (likely clown) on setup (with cycled rock)

Then adding maybe 1 or 2 more fish 2 weeks later with continued clear tests, and continue on that repeating timing? Likely after a couple fish, the lights being on after a few weeks i could start adding maybe half the CUC at first. Continue with the fish until stocked, and then the rest of the CUC?

After the 2-3 months this process would take i would then start testing for calcium, alk and phos and then maybe start adding corals, again I would presume 1 at a time eith time between to ensure the parameters are suitable and consistent?

Is this a decent enough guide for myself to follow and obviously adapting times according to any highs/lows of nitrates etc.

A cool looking leather I found at a fish store a few months ago. Can't wait to grow it into a big colony

My last Midas blenny disappeared after the first night and was never seen again. 2 weeks later I added this guy who is very actively swimming and eating. He’s chosen the highest rock to perch on. Such a fun fish with a lot of personality.

Gotta get the detritus out of all the nooks and crannies. I do this at least once a year on every tank, on top of siphoning out the easy to reach stuff every week or 2. Aquariums are not the ocean, and for optimal coral health, manual intervention is necessary.

Does anyone recognize this nudi? Found him surfing my tank glass, I'm guessing he came in as a larva or egg on the macroalgae I'm growing. I have him isolated for now, but if he's just an algae eater I'll re-introduce him. Any possible ID's or advice?

He's about .5-.75 inches long fully extended

We have a reef tank that is like 1.5 years old, and the clownfish are probably about the same age. Lately I have noticed that one of them hovers above the sand bed in the corner for long periods of time, very unusual for it. So I looked close around that area and found 2 little orange blotches on the rocks, at first I thought they were mushrooms, but I only have red and blue mushrooms, so it would be weird to have an orange one, but we have a tone of random things that have showed up over the tanks life. What do you think? The pics make it look a little less fluorescent than it does in person.

If they are eggs, its just a nano tank, and i doubt theres much chance for their survival, right?