soft corals

Hey everyone, For a couple months now a couple of my toadstools have been closed, no polyp extension at all. The only time it does is maybe for a brief moment during the day or at night. It’s in a constant shedding cycle because it waxes over too. But my other leathers are perfect everyday? Is...

Hey reef fam need an ID on this yuma shroom!

Hey guys quick question, What are the major signs of having too much light for soft corals?

Hey everyone quick question, Can too much light intensity on LED’s result in no coral growth? Specifically softies, but even stonys too? Thank you, Joey S

Hey everyone, Quick discussion, Instead of doing weekly 10% water changes. Can I starting tomorrow, test for alk and calcium everyday for 5 days, see how much my tank is using, and then at the end of each week dose each element of what the tank consumed total that whole week. I say this because...

Hey guys quick question, I tested my tank alk and cal for 5 days to see the consumption over that time period. And I really only saw a swing of .6 dkh at the most. I’m thinking of dosing B Ionic 2 part to keep it stable. My tank is a 90 gallon softie dominated system and I feel like the bi...

Hey everyone hope you’re all doing very well, My softie dominant 90 gallon has been running for 8 months now. And I’ve gotten little to no coral growth during that time. It’s mainly a leather dominant reef with some zoas and a Vargas cespitularia, and out of the 8 corals I have in there now I...

Hello novice reefers! i am fairly new to the whole saltwater tank thing, as much as i like to think i am, i’m not educated on this much at all. i have had the tank for a year now and had so many nice corals in the beginning. had a hard coral, bubble tip anemone, frogspon, so many mushrooms, and...

Hey everyone, My 90 gallon softie dominant reef has been running for over 7 months now, and so far I’ve gotten little to no coral growth. The tanks got some sarcophytons/devils hands, vargas cespitularia, and gorgonians. The only growth I’ve seen is the cespitularia. All fish are reef safe and...

Hey everyone, My toadstools have been in this repeated shedding stage where they open not all the way for about a day, and then go back to being closed up for 1-2 weeks. It’s been like this for a few weeks now. Anyways, I read threads of people saying to increase flow in the tank for the...

Hey all. My bubble coral doesn’t look like it’s doing to well. Any advice would be great.

Curious if anyone has recommendations for online coral stores for higher end soft corals? And no, I'm not talking about zoas. There's seems to be a lot of online stores dedicated to different types of corals like acros or euphyllias, but I don't know of any really for higher end softies.

Hi everyone. Yesterday I bought a pack of 9 "beginner coral" pack from a local coral store that was on sale. Each pack is different and silly me forgot to get the names of what I was getting. Can I get help from the veterans here as to what I have? That way I can read up on them more. The...

Hi, I recently picked up some corals off a friend and this random mushroom was closed and tucked on the back on the rock. He came loose and floated around until i caught him & put him into my loose mushroom cup. he eventually attached to a rock. Now that he’s open I got a semi decent picture of...

Hello, I have a brown Kenya Tree in my tank that has some weird moldy like neon green stuff on it every morning, but as the light hits it the green stuff recedes during the day and then flares up during the night again. I got it mainly as an indicator coral so I could see that my water had...

Hi, Please can anyone identify this soft coral?? file attached. many thanks.

Brand new to the forum, as well as still new to the reefing scene (2 years now). Will be using this thread to post some of the more interesting looking Palys and Zoas I find, which I can't positively ID to anything else I've seen so far. Here's a few to start it off. Picked up these up from an...

Smooth stalk, odd color polyps not carnation corals, thinking scleronephthya colonies? Anyone I'm trying to get better photos Forget come in dark burgundy or bright yellow polyps only

Hi! I would love to buy some green and yellow leathers maybe some purple/blue/red/pink mushrooms. I'm having a hard time finding something that would look good under daylights I don't really like blue lights. I'm willing to pay for shipping or picking up locally. HMU located in springfield ma

OK. I'm looking to fine tune a Ricordea florida exhibit at work. Some of them look fine, but others are shrinking and I cannot put my finger on why. 60 gallon custom made glass tank made by TankMeUSA. 24"x24"x25" Kessil 360 W Tuna blue light about 8"over the top of the water. Light at about...

My gorgonians close up from time to time and shed, as is normal. Somewhat recently though, one of my gorgonians closed up and the algae that grew on its limbs is coralline algae. I typically allow nature to take its course in these situations and the gorgonian can shed the old layer and out pop...

Let’s see those before and after photos of your corals. I will star this is one of my favorites one.

Which light setting is best to grow SPS coral as well as soft corals. I care about growth the most. Especially the growth of SPS coral. Thanks!!!