Fantastic new vid Kien!!

i just want to say tanks like this make my tank look like a getto tank. love your pics and vids very inspiring...

your tank is hot like usual

are you directly feeding your gonipora regularly? I know they are supposed to be harder to keep but i remember you have had them a long time.

Hi,
AWSOME, LOVE IT..

KIEN

so u don't have a refugium ?
and about the different use of salt brand do u mix them together or not sure what u really meant. Can u post Dez link about it



Janey

Yes they are very hard to keep. No I don't spot feed them. And ya I've had a couple of them for a while :)

No I don't run a refugium. I think Dez just mentioned it in passing in a post he made once. There was no elaborate detailed post on the subject. Simply what I do is use a different brand of salt during each weekly water change. Right now I rotate through, Instant Ocean, Reef Crystals, H2Ocean, seachem aquavitro, and Red Sea Salt. Last week I did a 10% water change with Reef Crystals, this week I'll be using H2Ocean and then Seachem the week following that.

Not sure about which "yellow bird" you are referring to as I don't have a yellow bird. I do have a "bird of paradise" which is actually electric green base with purple polyps :)

He told me that you have some sort of birdsnest coral that he thought was yellow.

Oops just looked at your vid. and I believe the "bird of paradise" coral is the one he is thinking of. If I'm not mistaken the coral he wants is at 6:20 in your video.

ya thats the one.....kinda looked more yellowy to me.....what-evs......killer looking coral none the less....

Well I finally got a chance to view you vids Kien and all I can say is I hate you :razz: jk buddy.

Absolutely amazing beauty of a tank Kien, when I grow up I want one just like it.

I guess my next new purchase will have to be a dosing pump and then maybe just maybe I will be able to keep the SPS going

2 :thumb: my friend very nice indeed.

Thanks Greg :)

Not much new going on in the reef these days. Well, except some "WOW" clams courtesy of Red Coral :)

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Did I count five!:surprise:......holy crap mang!........sweet picks and pics tho

And since I had the camera out..

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You really need to take a road trip North Kien and come tell me what I am doing wrong. I so want to be able to keep SPS like you when I grow down.........I mean up :lol:

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See that is what I am talking about......I want to have this kind of perdy stuff too :sad:

Awesome pic.'s and nice clams :biggrin:

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umm.. maybe? :D LIke you said, they were actually quite inexpensive, compared to what I'm used to forking out for maximas. Had to take advantage of that :D

Be careful what you wish for. Keeping SPS can be quite aggravating and ulcer inducing :lol:

Thanks! :D

Wow looking pretty incredible. Please let me know if your ever doing any trimming lol.

Keith

I still would like to have some SPS, tried acans (they are growing nice), monti caps (good), LPS, Softies, leathers, zoas and even an elegance and all good. I have 1 SPS - an A. Humilus (think that's what John called it) it's alive but not growing. As I would like to start a small SW shop it would be nice to have SPS tanks going as well. :biggrin:

always enjoy your pictures. and I like your new CLAP additions, so the itch got you to?

its highly contagious:twised:....

Wow stunning clams, corals and pics man. Drool! Might have to binocular creep your place tonight or invite myself over :)

I thought getting the clap was generally thought of as a bad thing. Man, it's clear to me that I know nothing. Less than nothing. You kids and your slang!! First it's all "it's sick" means "it's good" and now it's "Wow, you've got the clap." I am soooo going to impress my nieces and nephews with my new found slang terms. "Hey check out this jump on my skateboard." "Dude, that is the CLAP!"

Sweet Clams - I haven't seen anything of that quality in Toronto. Makes me jealous!

What's your photoperiod Kien?

um......not you kids, Tony.........just Laurier:razz::lol:

22Ks (T5): 10am - 10pm
14k (halides): 1pm - 8pm

... :clap2: hehe

I have 3 humilis SPS and none of them grow very fast. One of them I've had for over a year and survived my SPS event last summer but still has not grown one single polyp since I got it :lol:

Come on over and I'll hook you up with some easy to grow SPS.

Sounds good, Sam I am :lol:

Be careful what you wish for. Keeping SPS can be quite aggravating and ulcer inducing :lol:

BUT, I like this kinda ulcers!!:mrgreen:
Like Grizz said, we all would like some of that ulcers, too, darned it!

And you just keep rubbing it in...rubbing it in...with those pictures.
Why can't you just suck at taking pictures?? Then we won't have to hate you so much...:twised:

Lenny.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. :)

oh, and speaking of beautiful, I almost forgot! I have a new fish addition to the reef. He is my impluse purchase for the month. I went in looking to buy a magnesium test kit and ended up coming home with this Rainbow/Royal Pencil Wrasse instead :lol:

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WOW! Nice colors there Kien!

So as for corals, you mentioned on a different thread about setting me up with some easy SPS, which ones are you thinking of so I can do a little research.

Also what is your salinity at? I am waiting for some ref test solution to calibrate both my salinity probe & refrac.

WOW! :crazyeye:

Someone in my tank recently fragged a Red-Orange digi for me. I also had to prune back a purple Pocci.

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I also need to prune back a Bird-of-many-colours

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There are a couple other misc SPS (I don't know their names).

wow... i don't blame you for picking that one up

Sweet, I was doing a little reading on Pocci coral just the other day and that was one that I was going to try.

Very pretty fish man. Which tank is it living in?

The reef :)

Er.. The mixed reef :)

Er.. The 150 mixed reef :)