Vibrio is a bacterial infection that I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy. Unfortunately, I’ve dealt with it twice with no success. However, I’ve learned more each time, so hopefully this will help someone else. Vibrio is a gram-negative bacteria that infects fish, invertebrates, etc. It can cause gastroenteritis (abdominal issues) and sepsis/septicemia (serious infection …
Project Ease: 2 (scale of 1-10, 1 being the easiest) Project Cost: Free up to $10 This is a very simple project to help clean up your tank space and prevent spills. I had all supplies on hand, so the cost was essentially free to me. If you had to buy everything, this project will …
I haven’t had a lot of luck rescuing Trachyphyllias for some reason. It seems that once they start to go, that’s it. Fortunately, I was able to save this one. Notice the algae-covered skeleton and then the stark-white skeleton. It appears that this coral went through two traumatic events. In order to save it, I …
This scolymia was stung by another coral at my local fish store which caused all the damage as seen in the photo below. Luckily, stung corals tend to heal up very quickly with little intervention on my part. Since the coral was stung, I needed to make sure the coral didn’t get infected, so I …
I’m not sure what was wrong with this Lobophyllia, but it was free, so I had to try to save it. I always get nervous when I see a dying coral with a pink skeleton as it could be pink line syndrome (PLS). My guess is that it was just suffering from poor water quality …
In my years of reefkeeping, I’ve seen just about everything. But, not too long ago I was stumped. My corals were receding like they were being eaten, but no matter how long I watched the corals at 3 a.m., I couldn’t find the culprit. I had heard of black bugs bothering coral, but in all …
Back in the day, I had an Oceanic BioCube 8g aquarium. Although I loved the aquarium, there wasn’t enough room for a skimmer or any sort of carbon/GFO removal product. Needless to say, the aquarium had a constant problem with algae. I came up with this simple DIY project to help combat the algae problem. …
A single dot, a squiggle of white, a floating orange ball – eggs come in all shapes, sizes, and colors! Of course, the easiest way to tell what it could grow up to be is to find mom nearby, but that’s not always possible. These are just a few of the most common eggs found …
Cyphastrea are usually a very hardy coral that prefer low light (and sometimes do best partially shaded) but can be acclimated to higher-light areas. They also adapt well to a variety of flow conditions. I received this one from a reefkeeper who was getting out of the hobby. Unfortunately, most corals in the tank were …
With Christmas only two days away, you have *just* enough time left to make this for the special reefkeeper in your life. Or…more realistically…it may be a present to yourself after the holidays. I’d like to thank my very dear friend, Kevin, for the idea behind this. He gave it to me as a birthday …