This is my pistol shrimp Roland, my little gunslinger

hi everyone, i’m aware that this sub has a no selling policy, i am not looking to sell. around 6 months ago when i first set up my aquarium, my LFS sold me a small sand-sifting star, to help with debris in the sand. i had a strong copepod population and they told me he would be fine. doing research afterwards of course i saw that sand sifting stars are not recommended for small or new tanks (mine is both those things). but i couldn’t return him, they told me to just see how he does.

he did well for 5 months, looking plump, active, under the sand 90% of the time, able to right himself. i would bury mysis shrimp and algae pellets following LFS advice and just hope he’s eating. but unfortunately in the past 3-4 days i’ve noticed the tips of his legs are white and appear to be degrading. i’m almost 100% sure this is due to him starving. as such i am looking for anyone in the Netherlands, specifically around South Holland (Delft, Rotterdam, Hague, etc) with a large established tank who would be willing to take him (for free of course), cause i really dont want the little guy to die. :(

Had this fella for about 3 months now and its put on some nice size! Very happy with the temperament and coloration its giving the tank. Only gripe would be it does not care to eat nori at all LOL as you can see though it spends most the day grazing

20 gallon nano with a 6 gal side tank ... I let this thing go into the trash heap the last few years but now I've been back on top of it and it's crazy that all the corals survived the obsurd hair and bubble algae outbreak, and have grown back this much already .. some of the SPS were the size of a pinky nail under the hair algae

Lost 80% of my chalice overnight. I know it's worth it, but damn... Just when my hammers were getting as big as the one I lost to brown jelly, this happens.

Quarantine bucket, peroxide treatment, scrubbed off the jelly. Not easy to frag the encrusted part so I let it be. An old frag from this same colony is growing on a rock in the corner of the tank, healthy and untouched.

Im aware I shouldn't be chasing numbers rather than maintaining stability. Why is it that I cannot for the life of me get ph, mag, and nitrate to increase. Weeks of dosing magnesium, ph buffer, and heavy feeding. Stopped kalkwasser kh is up to 11 calcium is 440 magnesium 1300 ph is chillen around 7.8. Zero nitrate. Are the macro algae sucking it up? Do I need more fish? Kinda stumped here, thanks everyone.

After a Southeast Asia trip with loads of snorkelling and diving it's really made me think about my previous purchasing decisions for my reef tanks.

I'm still going to keep reefing, and I'll keep everything I currently own, but I'm going strict captive bred fish only and aquaculture corals for as many as possible.

Too many low fish population reefs in poor condition. Not to say this is everywhere and always but it's enough to make me want to change my practices. Any other reefers follow a strict captive bred and aquacultured only?

Anyone know what it is?

I’ve treated with chemi-clean on two separate occasions to no avail. An extended seemed to eradicate it but a few days after the lights came back on it was back and spreading rapidly. Any advice?

Hi everyone,

I am about to pull the trigger and purchase the following equipment. The last time you convinced me that Red Sea tank are not safe, so I swapped it with waterbox. Could you please tell your opinion about all the devices that I need to start the tank? Do you think something is better to be changed?

Thanks again for your help!

A paguritta hermit crab that lives in an old Christmas tree worm hole. The rock is about 5" across and houses a mix of inverts including a few clams and about 20 different christmas tree worms of different colors and patterns.

Just set up a 150L cube, what fish are colourful and reef safe that I can put in this tank? Already have 2 clowns and a starry scooter blenny in there

Tank crashed about a month ago thanks to a certain flatworm products which I might have overdosed 🤣 lost most of my sps and few lps. Glad to see the tank is slowly recovery and luckily all the fish survived 😆

I noticed that the polyps on the green slimers base have stopped extending at all and its not encrusting, how ever polyp extension is great and it is growing, is whats happening at the base a result of the base getting not enough light? Or is this stn?

Pic one is today and the last pic is before i noticed the recession

This generator is a lifesaver. Hope everyone is ok. Peace and love. (Don’t mind the GSP lol)

Marcus aurelius the Hi fin Goby. Survivor of ick, internal parasites and constant aggression from large fish... not to mention forcibly paring a pistol shrimp who killed the past 2 suitors...... marcus lost his top dorsal fin before he could lay claimover the pistol shrimps domain! Ever since the pistol shrimp has always had his back and has broken his claw multiple times setting the bigger fish in their place protecting marcus and all they have built. Having faced multiple rescapes the pistom shrimp decided to select allies.... Allowing marcus to prosper and perch on sand hill as he pleases. It is only marcus that I see proudly display himself especially after I clean the glass 🗿🗿 hes such a trooper. I also have a scaleless goby/monster goby (i believe it is a scaleless goby) and a scissor tail dartfish which share a home with marcus and the pistol shrimp 💀💀💀 its been months and the two gobys hardly ever come out. Marcus being the only one when I bring white lights and a clean front glass. I believe I trained him in the past that white lights mean feeding time. Which hasnt been the case these past few months. I changed my light schedule the other day to include high whites early in the light cycle and its influenced my fish to become more bold! I care more about this goby than the tomini tang and wrasse in my tank lol.

My feather duster work has not come out of his tube for 7 days. This is after one of my cleaner shrimp kept fiddling with his feathers. I am leaving my tank for 7 days and I’m worried if he decomposes it will crash my tank. But I don’t want to remove him if he’s still alive in there. How likely is it that he’s alive after 7 days of not coming out?

Not new to saltwater, but haven't had a saltwater aquarium in over a decade.

Picked up a complete setup with install for 2.2k

Lights are radion xr15 G4 pros