Saltwater Aquarium Troubleshooting: Tackling Algae, Cloudy Water, and Other Common Issues

March 20, 2026

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OCD Reefs offers high-quality saltwater aquarium installation and maintenance at a competitive price. Our store in Salt Lake City provides saltwater fish, coral, and aquarium supplies. With over 25 years of combined industry experience, we have built our business on honesty, reliability, and passion.

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Great store, great staff, good prices

Corey Tenney March 6, 2026

My new favorite store.

JEFF NIXON February 17, 2026

Wow, these guys are amazing! Very knowledgeable, friendly, and great customer service!

Jennifer Arnold December 5, 2025

Each employee here is knowledgeable and friendly. They have amazing fish and just as impressive a selection of invertebrates, corals, and anemones. Their R/O water is inexpensive, they will test your water for everything, their prices are very reasonable, too!

Politically Pink August 3, 2025

Well stocked store carrying a wide variety of dry goods and live stock. Staff is helpful. My go to for Reef Nutrition products as well as when I need something urgently for my tank. Dry goods are competitive to online retailers.

Andy Blackburn May 9, 2025

Recently decided to start a saltwater tank and found this store. First came to OCD Reefs on a Sunday because Google said they were open. Not open on Sunday. So came back during the week because they are open until 7 pm. Very cool store. Filled with tanks of gorgeous saltwater fish and live coral. They also have a selection of larger tanks. We may have to save up for because we are just starting out with a 14 gallon for now. Staff was super friendly and knowledgeable. We will be back for sure.

House Full Of Boys March 29, 2025

Amazing saltwater fish store. Everyone is very helpful. They have a great selection of fish and corals.

Brandon Garrett February 26, 2025

These guys have been great to deal with! I'm fairly new to the hobby and have been my go to place for advice, parts and critters for the new reef tank. Recently picked up a pair of new Hydra 32s and after installing one of them didn't work right. OCD didn't hesitate to swap it out for another. Prices and variety are on par with everyone else, and they're a Red Sea dealer so if you need parts they've got em!

James James February 23, 2025

What a great store with a nice selection of livestock and hard goods. They are really helpful and do great water tests.

Brock Jones January 26, 2025

This place has great variety of coral and many fish. Also the people that working they are very friendly and knowledgeable. They is a beautiful Red Sea s1000 it is a mixed reef and they have such a great diversity of scolymia. In that tank they also have a big Kenya tree and an awesome garden of torches, some goniopora and greatly grown in acros. There is many torch, frogspawn and hammers for sale that are just stunning. And in the front of there store is lots of gear for your reefing needs. Lastly all of the Red Sea tanks and supply from Red Sea. This place is a must go and the drive will be worth it.

thomas October 20, 2024

Knowledgeable and chatty. The lady asked good questions about my current tank and helped connect a bunch of dots in my head as fish care and fixing problems goes. Great looking stock and frag tanks.

Mach42 October 10, 2024

Great place to get salt water aquarium supplies and they are very knowledgeable

Janine Jorgensen August 25, 2024

Brandon is amazing to work with! He is extremely knowledgeable, friendly, and accommodating. OCD Reefs has provided our salt water fish and tanks in our pediatric clinic for many years. Definitely the best in the business!!

Trisha Torres August 12, 2024

Every time I visit here they are very knowledgeable, patient, and helpful. The lady there takes the time to get to know her customers current set up and will work with you to get your tank running the way you want without high pressure sales and offers helpful suggestions based on your needs and budget. Other employees seem to have had positive helpful attitude aswell. They have always been well stocked with a wide variety of equipment, supplies, coral, fish and more. From where I've visited over past couple years they seem to have the best selection of high quality saltwater stuff in salt lake area. Fish and frag tanks have been neat and clean. Unlike many other stores, they don't leave me worrying my purchase is gonna cause an algae or sickness outbreak at home . Probably best reef shop in the area.

Alex Watts June 12, 2024

If you're looking for a trustworthy place to locally purchase saltwater fish/corals for your tank at home or even at the office, OCD Reefs has personally been that place for me. They have knowledgeable and friendly staff that are helpful with whatever you maybe looking for and the majority of the fish are shipped to them in better than average condition. Seriously they arrive looking great! They also have good pricing on their coral selection for those who are reef fanatics such as myself! I've been to a lot of fish stores for saltwater fish in the valley and it's been a rather skeptical experience at other places but OCD Reefs has made it worth driving 25 minutes for. NOTE: This is not a freshwater fish place. It's just for the saltwater side of the hobby! 😎

Kevin Wolf June 9, 2024

Great selection, price, and customer service! We love OCD Reefs

Cara Baer May 6, 2024

Amazing prices

Dante Searle April 25, 2024

Great advice for dinoflaggelates and good selection of fish and coral.

Nathan Nartker April 20, 2024

Nothing but salt water supplies and fish here-- and it's fantastic for those that sway that way. We came wondering if they sell freshwater supplies-- nope. But that's OK. They are great at what they do offer and specialize in.

Jennifer M April 2, 2024

Swapped out a broken tank a prior mover broke. It was a tight fight and was not easy as the tank sits in the wall and it was a big boy. I'm looking forward to getting my tank assembled so I can fill it with some goods from OCD.

Chris Matson February 14, 2024

Great store. Have more dry goods and parts than anywhere else. Very helpful as well.

Jamie Birch February 6, 2024

I loved this place! The staff is super friendly and knowledgeable. The price is very fair and they have a beautiful array of corals. Their display tank is gorgeous as well!

Ben Fuqua November 22, 2023

Cool corals and friendly

John Judkins October 10, 2023

Great corals and fish and reasonable prices.

Aaron Olson October 2, 2023

Great saltwater aquarium store. I Will be going back many times.

Aaron desatoff September 29, 2023

Super happy with this local fish store. I just got in for the first time last week and was really happy with the quality of the fish and livestock. The owner showed me the filtration set up for the coral and fish systems and it was amazing to see. It was very much appreciated to see the detail and quality that OCD Reefs puts into their systems. Cant wait to go back!

S Lars September 27, 2023

Dino was killer to work with. So happy they carry Algae Barn products. Will shop here again

Ashley Varoz September 18, 2023

Excellent service

Hiro Hacebe June 28, 2023

Its nice little pricey

matthew williams June 21, 2023

Super helpful! We were able to get the corals we wanted!

Nancy Sorcia June 20, 2023

Amazing Service

Magna Auto And Tire Center June 12, 2023

Staff chill af would go again

Bridget Toone June 6, 2023

They were really knowledgeable about corals and fish. Really good costumer. And we found what we were looking for

Dany Kristensen June 3, 2023

Ton of variety! Store owner really knows her stuff.

courtney trujillo April 22, 2023

I absolutely love OCD Reefs, never have I had a store help me out so much not just with fish but my water, corals, live rock, sand everything! Their knowledge of the hobby is beyond compare to any store I’ve been to and being new to hobby, I’ve been to a lot of stores. Everyone who works there can answer pretty much any question you have and will go in-depth with their information or, “dumb it down” for a guy like me haha. I’d recommend this store to anyone who is looking to get into or already in the hobby. I Love this hobby and I love the help I get from the store!

Austin Stephensen March 30, 2023

Super helpful and never felt like I was imposing.

Tim March 3, 2023

Excellent selection of products and live stock for all types of salt water aquariums! The staff is great and prices are excellent too! I recommend this place to anyone!

Jeremy Gibson January 27, 2023

These guys are awesome, they know their products, and are amazing at what they do. Pricing is fantastic, and they take the time to explain things to beginners. They've gone out of their way to make sure I received my order on products well outside of the time of business, to which I was blown away with! I'd highly recommend anyone looking into Reefing, to come directly to these guys! Fantastic job everyone! Highly impressed, and continue to be impressed with your excellent customer service.

Hues of Blues Frenchies November 17, 2022

Staff was very helpful and insightful! Great selection and able to help you out if what you are looking for is not in stock. Great experience!

Austin Clark October 27, 2022

Super stoked I came back to OCD reefs. It has been about a year and they had some tank struggles last time I was in but this time I was blown away! The coral looked great, tanks were beautiful and the fish selection was fire 🔥. Stoked they're doing so well again!

Chelsea Christensen August 2, 2022

Great customer service

Orlando Landa June 18, 2022

Great shop with knowledgeable staff!

William Jordan May 7, 2022

Very helpful . Tnk u so much !

Natalia Lankford April 18, 2022

Love ocd reefs always able to help and very knowledgeable people. One of the best in the valley

Devin Olsen March 19, 2022

Always a great experience at OCD reefs. Great prices and staff are always helpful. My go to LFS.

Braydon Platt March 10, 2022

This is a super cool place. They've got the strangest salt water creatures and a boatload of knowledge to boot. They sell new and used set ups and everything for inside and out of your aquarium. This place is for the serious salt water hobbyist!!!

Kara Clark February 16, 2022

Very knowledgeable and where able to answer all my questions, they even filled up my jugs for me and brought them to my car! Very pleased with how organized and clean the store is too Great place for your reef needs!

Saxton Pentico February 8, 2022

Awesome service and great tank layout. Got some free shells for my hermit crabs and the coral selection is Amazing! Employees were very knowledgeable and helped out a novice improve my tank conditions.

Justin Jenkins January 8, 2022

Very knowledgeable, would tell me not to pair a certain fish or buy one if it was not compatible; shows me she wasn’t trying to make money off me and she genuinely cared about the fish being taken care of

Hunter Renfro November 27, 2021

OCD Reefs ROCKS!

Keith Earnhart November 24, 2021

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