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I'll trade you some frags if you let me on your secret on how to talk those kind of pictures. It is the pictures skills or is it the corals that make the pictures look good? Could it be both :mrgreen:

:jaw: Wow those are great pics. And beautiful corals.

I have a pair of the 8,s in my 50g. Needless to say they are not turned up to high but great pumps as you say.

I've never seen a meteor shower look so good.

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So full of awesomeness!!

Kiener, are you still running metal halide on your tank?

Yes. 3x250 watt 14K pheonix.

Here ya go!

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Tunze 6105 on the top, Jebao RW-8 on the bottom. Nearly double !

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Amazing as always! those blue clove polyps are growing on me :smile:

Be careful ! They will never UNGROW on you. Trust me, I know. :lol:

Amazing as always when I get grown up I hope my corals can look as good.

So nice......:jaw::jaw::jaw: Really missed your pics but better late than never. 😉

his polyp's nothing to scoff at either.

did someone say polyps ??
 

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Now you're just showing off!

ya, probably :-)

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Ohhh. Dirty!!!

x2!!!! Gotta admit, its a sexy tank Kien!!!!

Wow great pics. Where's the pic comparing those powerheads?:wink:

you mean this?

Show off(noun)

to behave in an ostentatiously skilled and assured way with the intention of impressing others


Not only does Kien "show off" but he impresses too while doing it he is the SW aquariust version of Austin Powers :mrgreen:

I'm glad he shows off, this thread is where I find new corals I want to buy.

So, "Goldmember" or "The Aquarist Who Shagged Me" ? Er.. nevermind, don't answer that.

got Skimmate ?
 

A weeks worth of skimming with the new Bubble Magus Curve 9 !

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It took my last skimmer almost a year to really get broken in. The new Curve 9 seems to be doing just fine after just a couple of weeks of use. Thumbs up ! Still a ways to go before long term viability can be assessed. I'm still expecting the needle wheel to crap out at any moment :lol:

Eww, that's gross. I just ate my dinner.

Stock up now on a couple extra needle wheels so this beast will last for forever, and ever, and ever!

Ya, I was thinking just that! Get the bad boys now while they are plentiful and cheap 'cuz in a year form now they will likely triple in cost!

how is the noise and vibration of the skimmer. I hear it is louder then the curve 7. what's your thoughts?

Seems pretty quiet to me. I don't notice it at all. My last skimmer with the eheim pump I think was noiser! Maybe the curve 9 needs to be broken in a bit more then the noise will kick in ? :noidea: My stand is skinned with some pretty thick Ikea cabinet doors though, so maybe that helps to muffle it? At any rate, compared the the last two skimmers that I had (Bubble Magus 220CS and Hydor), this one is a lot quieter. I have no other frame of reference to compare to.

Do you get a bad smell from all the air holes in the top. I found my 7 is bad for that. Needs a carbon filter on or in it.

awesome kien.
hope it turns out to be an great skimmer for you

What is that??? :love:

We must be used to it because my last skimmer had the same holes and we never thought it smelled that bad. It's only when the skimmer cup overflows that I can smell it.

It's a large polyp stony coral.

Looks like a type of goniopora to me.

To be honest I have no clue what they are. You're right that they do look like goni and in fact I've seen stores sell them as "goni" but I have a couple of gonis right now that don't look like these ones. These ones don't extend their polyps very far at all. They are more like leptastrea this way.

I apologize if this was addressed in the thread already and I just missed it, but who built your tank?

Thanks!

ok I just saw your 2015 pic in the other thread :crazyeye: Have we discussed that giant clam before? If not we need to. Details and closeups please :)

An awesome local tank builder by the name of Jay. He used to build tanks for a now defunct store called Elite Aquatics in Calgary. That's where I got the tank built.

I believe we have, considering I've had that clam for like 5 years I think :-)

It's just your run of the mill derasa.