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Best guess is the coral beauty brought something into the tank. This is why we always recommend a min 30 day quarantine. Slightly high nitrates won’t kill fish. Mine are always between 50 and 100. I have a tank full of fat healthy fish.

I think it is a chalk bass

I don’t know how long. This is a situation where macro algae is a good option. I typically use GFO for phosphates.

Probably an aptasia. If there is one there will be more. Pest so try to get rid of it. There is a product called aptasia X. Some people inject them with boiling water. I’ve never had any so no real experience with getting rid of them. Peppermint shrimp can help keep them in check but your...

They are tough. They should be fine.

I’d leave the snails and set up a quarantine tank. What size is your tank.

Never add more than one fish at a time. Always quarantine 30 days before adding to your display Always check the salinity of the bag the fish are in and make sure it matches the tank you are putting them in. Many suppliers run lower salinity. In a quarantine you can adjust the tank salinity...

And slowing down the colonization of the bacteria because they consume the ammonia the bacteria needs.

If you have only dry rock it seeds the tank otherwise there isn’t any bacteria to colonize the rock. The down side is there is minimal diversity in the bacteria. A couple pieces of live rock will give you more diversity. Yes it will turn your dead rock into live rock. Nothing should ever be...

It will help especially if you are using all dry rock, but not necessarily sped up the cycle.

Got the name wrong it is marinepure https://www.saltwaterfish.com/search?q=Marinepure

Wrong, water changes will always be needed. No nitrate is hard to achieve and there are other possible contaminants that can get in your water from the environment. Water changes are also the way we replenish trace minerals that are important for the life we are taking care of.

BRS.

Pretty much. You generally can’t put any equipment in a wet dry and it doesn’t provide enough extra volume to be beneficial for stabilizing the water parameters. I have found them to be kind of noisy as well. A sump can be pretty quiet if it is set up right.

My tank is almost maintainence free. It is a 120 gallon tall tank with a 40 gallon sump. I do a 25% water change every couple weeks and that’s it. This one has been up and going for years. I’ve been doing salt water over 20 years. It is as much work as you make it.

Forget the canister. The worst kind of filter for a salt water tank. A wet dry works by the water flowing over a media like bioballs. They aren’t submerged. The bioballs are coated by bacteria that needs air, aerobic. The end product of the aerobic bacterial breakdown is nitrate. In a wet...

A wet dry is focused on aerobic bacteria and tends to cause higher nitrates, same with a canister just worse. A sump allows for all kinds of different filtration options as well as a place to put equipment. Live sand isn’t going to help much. In reality most of the bacteria in it isn’t alive...

Fist skip the canister and wet dry. Both are pricy and Neither are great choices fore a marine aquarium. Since you are planning on a wet dry you can switch to a sump. You can build this yourself from an aquarium (20 gal long or a 10 gallon and either glass or plexiglas dividers siliconed...

Yeah any with a blue link is junk. Most of the recent fall in that category.

Look at the new posts. Most are probably not real. All have links to reefs for less. Originally I was deleting them because of the links until i was told they were allowed. When I did an IP search they all were from the same IP.