I'm pretty sure that's why Brad put "& Stuff" in my thread title..

well lets face it, this thread is at 105 pages and theres no way its all reef talk, especially when its a Kien thread :razz:

So shortly after I got my tank back on track this past fall you may recall that I put a few tester SPS colonies in to test the waters (hehe I'm so punny). Well, those pieces have coloured up nicely and have started to grow.

Browned out STN'ing digi..

Before:

http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/...31E6121DF1.jpg

After:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8204/8...4da8066a_o.jpg

So anyway, once I was satisfied with their progress I decided to go all-in and start stocking up on frags 'n such. I pretty much hit up anyone in town that had anything available. Thanks to all my local reefer buddies my tank now looks like a 150g frag tank :lol: I'm not complaining though. Part of the fun is watching things grow (or not grow and trying to figure out why? :neutral:).

This particular frag pack is from my one of my all time favourite vendors, Oceanic Corals.

http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/...FD60C35212.jpg

P.S. excuse the diatoms on the sand bed. Apparently that's what happens when you change out your sand bed :lol:

Oh my, whats the green birdsnesty thing on the right? It looks cranky but pretty, any idea what it ends up looking like or if they gave it a fancy name?:wink:

All of the frags pictured here just came out of the bag so they're all a bit cranky. It's a Bird of Paradise and looks like this when its happy :-)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8199/8...b347da17_o.jpg

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Nice! I had one of those that was supposed to be a bird of paradise, instead it was just a pigeon. I ended up selling it at a frag swap. It was pretty disappointing as all my other birdnests have done fine and colored up nicely.

is it wrong that i'm staring at your cloves and hoping mine colour up like that too?

wait.. the cloves I gave you browned out?! That's okay, just throw them in the trash and come get more LOL.

No they're a nice pale purple but not bright like yours. they're a bit shaded under beast torch.

Fragalicious
 

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Simply gorgeous! :biggrin:

Perfect shots.
Amazing!

WWWOOOOO REEF PORN!

Loookin goood! I LOVE that birdsnest, awesome color

god damn it Kien, now you makes me think of doing a full sps tank only. Appreciate those awesome close up shot those. everytimes, wife sees i am browsing your thread, she asked me when you are going to take pictures of our kids lol. I better look at your thread at work only

:shocked!: Amazing stuff Kien!

Drool drool!!!!

Thanks guys and gals! Almost done here, just a few more..

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I'll take one of each please :P

Man I need some blues and purples in the tank haha. Nice pieces kien

Gorgeous shots! How bout a fts??

Thanks! The South Side :-)

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Do you dose this?

http://a.tgcdn.net/images/products/f..._hot_sauce.jpg

Yep, beautiful!! Nice work!

When I can remember to, yes! Often times I forget to though.. and it shows :lol:

Dagnabit that's what I'm doin wrong I dose with this

http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/a...35CC199DAE.jpg


Sent from my porcelain aquarium

I tried to make a meme about you coming back.







Failed. :neutral:.







Nice sticks and wicked photos as always!

dude im gonna cry....i think you know why lol

:-)

:cry:

Come on! Have popcorn :D :popcorn:

Man, super macro pics! Can you tell me what these three are? I need to add them on my Xmas list! :biggrin:

http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/...70F25AE57C.jpg


man tell me that dont look like brett no?? lol

Thanks!

They are Acropora SPS.

"kein" was intentional :P

http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/...asan1/meme.jpg

be more convincing if my wife ever wanted me to come to bed with her lol.

Damn that Kein guy!!

I know right! All $10 frags goneeeeeeeeeee :cry: