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What is your phosphate, and how are you testing both? Are you dosing any bacteria or vodka/ sugar/ vinegar-type products (bacteria food)? In my 120g, I'm dosing about 40ml per day (but I can't remember the concentrate off-hand). I try to keep my nitrate around 4ppm. If you're seeing cyano, then it's likely the phosphate is high (and that the nitrate isn't keeping up - which makes sense given the 0 reading). Dosing bacteria may help out-compete the cyano, but it'll need more nitrate.

Thanks... let's see if we can help another way. - If you put food on it, does it open up and eat it or react at all within 30 minutes? - Do you have clowns, shrimp, or anything that could possibly host in it, even if you haven't see them do it? - Is there a powerhead, return line, or any sort of direct flow on it? - Have you see it covered with a lot of mesenterial filaments (white stringy guts)? To be honest, it looks a lot like Elegance Coral Syndrome. I had a case a couple years back, and I tried *everything* hoping I could crack the code with no luck. I hope that's not what you have, but I recommend you read up on it just in case.

Please don't. The food will simply rot in the coral and speed the decay. We'd be happy to help on other strategies if you can post tank parameters and photos.

Agree with all of this.

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Fight with fire but not a flame thrower. No need to burn the house down, but they aren't good. Given the presence of the mid-tail, they look like Convolutriloba sp. (red planaria). Definitely quarantine and treat. Flatworm Exit has always been my go-to, but there are lots of very good treatments out there. You can also use what you have on hand to break the lifecycle. Hopefully others will chime in woth more... I'm exhausted. Zzz

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Fluconazole might work on it?

I forget the name of it (I have it written down in my records, but I'm not near those right now), but get it out. I found it very invasive and not easily treatable (and most red alga are not eaten by what we have in our tanks.) I'll try to get the name for you.

It's the clown gobies - 99% sure. As soon as I saw the title, I was already guessing that you had clown gobies (without seeing the post). It's a common occurrence, unfortunately. Over a decade ago, there were a lot of threads and posts about this. I'm not sure why this info isn't as readily available anymore. When we first got into the hobby, we had a similar situation. The sexy shrimp were disappearing in a 3g aquarium, and there was only a clown goby. One day my husband caught the goby in the act.

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I was a loyal customer of reefcleaners for years. I haven't bought any clean-up crew since I dealt with snails shedding flukes. Thankfully I didn't have any fish at the time. Now I just hate the idea of having to quarantine snails, in addition to everything else. 😒 Moral of the story - snails can shed flukes for months (without a fish host) - and I don't know of any place that quarantines their clean-up crew for months. Pick a place that treats you well and just understand that you've accepted risk.

Ohhh nooo. It's awful, I know. I hope the tank is ok. Unfortunately I've been through this, and you won't like what I have to say. This is assuming it wasn't bad enough for insurance... but bad enough that it's not a little clean-up job either.... Pull up the carpet and throw out the pad (to at least where it was water-logged). Use carpet cleaners to remove as much of the water as you can, then clean the carpets. Prop the carpet up on buckets and get the industrial "hamster wheel" fans to dry it out. You'll likely also need to get a dehumidifier to draw moisture out of the air. If it got to the walls, you'll need to remove the baseboards and probably cut ventilation holes in the drywall to let it dry out. There are drywall mousture meters that I highly recommend using to know when you can put it all back together again. There are a lot of great water remdiation places that will rent you the equipment or just put the carpet and pad down for you. I've never seen any attempt to salvage a pad turn out well (unless it was a waterproof pad). This is from experience with a legitimate house flood, where we had to actually call in experts. I watched everything, knowing that I would need to know what to do for an aquarium flood. Sure enough, it happened with my tank, and we knew what to do. If we had cut corners, we'd be facing moldy carpet and mold in the drywall. Not worth it. Good luck.

Agree with the above. The reclassifications are challenging for me, and I considered myself pretty respectable at identifications. My personal strategy is that I have a copy of Veron's "Corals of the World" series. It's a massive three-book set with copious photos and ID info. [And in searching for info just now, I found out there's a new version!] https://www.reef2rainforest.com/2016/06/25/verons-corals-of-the-world-is-launched-as-online-database/ I haven't messed with his website, but it's here: http://www.coralsoftheworld.org/synonymy_lookup/?taxonLink=Hydnophora_grandis_sensu_Vero But back when I was getting started in the hobby, I hung out on the "Identification" request parts of various forums and watched people guessing. There was one person that always blew me away (KologneKoral on ReefCentral), so I just watched and learned. I used to be a strict stickler for the scientific names, but I have certainly found myself very lazy with the renamings. It's extremely hard to not call Homophyllia australis just "Scolymia" or "Scoly." But no. I wouldn't hang out at a LFS to learn names. I can't begin to tell you how many wrong answers I've heard over the years (and many places haven't kept up with the renamings). A lot of times things are just sold under whatever name the exporter or wholesaler gave it. Instead, I would use the community, and if you get really into it, play the guessing games on various forums with a good resource in hand. You'll get good at it quickly. Now excuse me while I go stare at two corals in my tank that I've never been able to identify properly... 😵‍💫

Thank you! It really has been quite the adventure getting to this point. I like your take on it and will update my title...

Thank you! Genicathus angels?! They're the only... like 99%... reef safe angels (there is always the possibility, but it's pretty much unheard of). The Lamarck's are probably the most dull of the genus, but they're still phemonenal when adults. The others get *pricey*. I've never had Bellus angels, as they're typically in the $300++ range each. Highly recommend learning more about them, as they're just awesome. 15 years, and they're still my favorites.

Thanks to @johnnybv at Blue Ribbon Koi and @Capital Aquarium, I finally achieved one of my dreams: a pair of Genicanthus angels! Ever since I saw a mated pair of Watanabe angels in Ohio in 2008, I fell in love with them. Shortly after, I purchased a "mated" pair, but it turned out that the male was not mated with that female, and so the female beat him up to death. Strike one. I decided to then order three Watanabe angels, and they came in sooooo itty-bitty. But, they were phenomenal. Unfortunately, I had a family emergency and had to go out of town. My reefkeeper friend tank-sat, but when I came back, there was food everywhere in the tank - and the fish were dead. Strike two. Then, for *years* I could only find one at a time. I had Japanese swallowtails, Zebra angelfish, etc. But, no pairs. Strike... lots. I came across a Lamarck's at @Capital Aquarium that I had to get, as my love for these fish hadn't dwindled. Once again, I couldn't find anymore, despite these being the most common of the Genicathus angels. So, she grew big and bold in the tank. Then... it happened. @johnnybv at Blue Ribbon was able to order some in. He helped me pick out two of the best ones, and I walked out of the store figuring I would be on my last strike before my husband killed me. I decided to just add one smaller female initially in case anything went wrong. The other went into my grow-out tank. I held my breath... The large female completely changed her attitude immediately. She became more protective and friendly... the yellow spot on her head grew... the stripes on her back smoothed out straight, and her pectoral fins turned from white to completely black. In less than a month, *she* was a *he!* (see photos above and below to tell the differences). The two are phenomenal. The male regularly rolls onto his side hoping to mate (see below), but I think the female is still immature. I'm debating if/when to add the second female... I finally got my dream and don't want to disrupt anything! Thanks to two of our AMAZING sponsors!!!

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Sawing LPS in half is much different than just taking a tissue sample. You'll need a substantial portion of the gastrointestinal tract, some skeleton, etc. You could frag off a piece of your bubble, depending on the species. Again, there are some corals (the ones without skeletons), where just taking a piece of them is likely viable. Bubble corals need a portion of everything to heal and regrow.

No. I've never seen this work, and I rehab corals extensively. It would be like taking a slice off your leg and sticking it to your arm. The bubble coral needs its skeletal structure, its digestive system, etc. It's possible with other corals, but not with a bubble coral. When a coral self-propagates, it includes a start of skeletal mass. During polyp bailout, the tissue leaves intact but without the skeleton. These have atrocious survival rates, as they are missing the skeletal structure. They can live for a while, but it's rare for them to survive long enough to regenerate a skeletal structure. As mentioned, cutting a piece of tissue off would be the non-survival version. Recommend a hard "no" on this. Post a photo, and we'll see if we can find other ideas for you to consider.

I've fragged various bubble corals, and different species frag better/worse than others. Can you post a photo? Me personally, I'd rather just cut off the dead heads and let the coral continue growing naturally than trying to cut some off to reglue onto the dead spots. Typically the dead spots are dead for a reason (getting stung, high light/water flow, etc.), so the new frags won't have a good chance there. If it wasn't one of those similar reasons, I find that the new bits take forever to rejoin with the old bits, so the coral looks awkward for a while.

I think all of mine related to flooding of some description, though.

Looks like an egg mass to me, but I can't tell from what. What do uou have in the tank?