That was quite the politically correct post.

They are far and few between, so don't get use to them Catherine. :lol: Plus, I figured once I said him (or her), I couldn't then just start referring to him (or her) as a Him (or her) the 2 other times. :wink:

I have 3 pipe fish currently and they do well in my tank. I've had other types of pipefish with no luck so I've concluded that the Dragon Pipefish are the easiest of all the ones available. I think this is mostly because they don't openly swim so they are not blasted around by the flow. They mostly just slink around hunting for pods. One pipefish I've had for a couple of years and the other ones I've had for about a year. I've noticed that they are quite sociable as they always sleep together and often hang out together during the day. I have never seen any of them eat mysis or any other prepared food. They strictly eat pods. Their mouths are so small I'm not even sure how they would eat mysis. I have not seen any other fish bother the pipefish and they are not skittish at all. Even my most aggressive fish, my pair of clown fish don't bother them if they slink near their anemone. Every time I am in the tank or near the tank they get very curious and come slinking by. They are ALWAYS photobombing whatever I happen to be trying to photograph, those buggers! :lol:

So what your saying is I'm going to need a significant pod population in any tank I want to have them in. Gotcha! :razz:

Ideally I was thinking the tank at the office, as a few people have inquired about seahorses (which I have said no to) but a pipe or two might be enough to make them happy if they want something that is "delicate and graceful" :lol:

Ya, it's funny I get that question ALL the time from guests. "So, have you thought about putting a seahorse in your tank?", "how come you don't have a seahorse?", "When are you getting a seahorse". Then I gotta go into my whole spiel about suitable environments for seahorse, etc, etc.. But now I just point to the pipefish and that usually satisfies them.

I personally wouldn't recommend a pipefish unless you have a well established pod population. I have a dragonet fish that used to only eat pods as well and used to hunt pods with the pipefish. Then one day he figured out that he liked mysis better. He doesn't do much pod hunting anymore while the pipefish still do, even after seeing their pod hunting buddy quit that habit.

Did you add all your pipefish separately?

I started with one pipefish a couple of years ago, then added another two earlier this year.

This..

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That is all, carry on. :pop2:

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea....

Porous, yellow and absorbent is he.....

Hahahaha nothing like it!!!!

Lmao. Nice kien!

Can't help but feel there's a bit of advertising going on here ;)

Great pic!:lol:

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January 2013 FTS
 

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Kien, these are killer shots! I really adore how your tank looks with the rock scape and arrangement! You have given me some great ideas for my upcoming tank transformation. Keep the reef porn coming! :biggrin:

Looking good as always Kien. Picture speak a thousand words and I think your is speaking in the millions. Looks like you are going to need a frag tank soon. :mrgreen:

You make me sick.
Excellent shots and wicked corals

Why is it whenever I see your amazing pic's I can't help but repeat (in my thoughts) "Oooooh that's pretty" over and over and over again!

Ditto! Kinda jealous right know! :biggrin:

things look amazing right now. the cyph and watermelon made me twitch a little!

Kien great shots and very nice colors. Share with us how you achieve this coloration in your tank?

Your pics look OK. Would probably look better under LEDs though. :lol:

I keed! Great Macros Kien. Makes me want to get a camera again. :lol:

:thumb::thumb::thumb:

Depends. Are you using Lightroom, Aperture or Photoshop?

Thanks y'all :-)

ya, you're probably right. I guess I'll just have to live with my sucky sub par (no pun intended) lighting for the time being.. (ie, I'm just not cool enough) :cry:

Honestly, I'm not entirely sure what the answer to this question is. I just do the usual. Water changes (every 2 weeks), skimmer, lighting (MH+T5), GFO+Carbon, BioPellets, Alk and Calc on a doser. Top down photos help too :lol:

You're looking at my frag tank. All 150g of it :lol: Seriously though, it's amazing and cool to see how some frags can take off like a rocket, while others pretty much do squat.

November 20th ...... vs ....... January 20th
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November 20th ...... vs ....... January 20th
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With the frags colouring up like that I can't imagine there is anything "sub-par" about those lights at all.

What is that last one? The colour of it in the Jan 20 shot is giving me goose bumps.

ya, I love my lights :biggrin: They have served me well over the past 4 years. The last one is an Acropora. sp.

So Kien, no fancy Zeovit reactor and additives? :) LOL

I am using LightRoom but cannot get such a nice coloration. But I am working :) I need a BioPellets reactor now :)

:lol: ok then...

Perchance do you recall what vendor or hobbyist you acquired it from, so that I might attempt to inquire about availability of any others? Please and thank you.

Absolutely amazing pics! You are obviously doing a lot right. Great job.

I swear he owns a waterproof crayola marker set

Looking great.

I've got to get me one of those sets! LOL :lol:

There was a major frag buying frenzy in the fall/early winter from a lot of different vendors.. I believe this one may have come as a frag pack from a vendor out east who happens to like to "frag a lot". A lot of his frags came in virtually colourless or brown but have mostly all coloured up now.

Nope. The only thing that's added is two-part (alk and calc) from a doser. Although, I guess I do add bioPellets as well when they deplete every 6-8 months.

would you happen to have any for sale?