Keep up the good (less) work

The maristar yes! You know I never got around to installing the reefbrights permanently. I kept meaning to rig up a housing to mount them beside my maristars but I never did! So they have been collecting dust :lol:

I have been thinking of switching over to LEDs this year though, if only just to reduce the cost of electricity a little bit. I wouldn't say my electricity bill is huge, but you know, environmental friendliness and all that.

Ya no kidding. That thing is a best and nuke proof! Levi gave that to me like 6 years ago.

Thanks. Everyone once in a while something interesting happens though. Like last weekend my boxfish kicked it and nearly nuked the tank. My yellow tang was on its side breathing heavily. I was certain he was done. A few other fish were lethargic and my protein skimmer was overflowing. I had to jump into action by dumping 4 bags of carbon into the sump to clean it up. By the next day everyone was back to normal phew!

Yes both my Powder Blue and Blue/Regal Tang still get ich from time to time. I haven't added anything new to my tank in a long time so it comes less frequent, but still happens. For example, when my box fish died a few weeks ago and the tank was polluting up, that stressed the fish and the tangs developed a little ich. As usual (for them), they weathered it and are ich-less again. It has always been my experience that if the fish is strong and healthy and there isn't any other underlying health issue(s), my fish have been able to kick the ich.

Often times if a fish gets ich it is because they are stressed but unfortunately that source of stress could easily be another ailment (virus, bacteria, infection, etc). That's when things get dicy.

Thank buddy for the quick response! I probably stressed them out when I re-scaped the tank as my nitrates & phosphates were up. I will keep an eye on the powder, but I'm glad you are having success and your tank looks great! I hope to see some photos soon.

Since all your photos got wiped, I think it's time for some updates photos of your tank :biggrin:

It's still alive??!! YOUR STILL ALIVE??! Here I thought Kein had replaced you.

:razz:.
That thing was literally golf ball size when I passed it your way. Always a pleasure to read the journal, would love to see those photo skills of yours in action again.

Ya, without any photos in this entire thread, it is as if this tank doesn't even exist anymore! :neutral:

Yes and yes! :biggrin: .. except that I no longer have any proof of its existence.

Holy there is truth to the the rumour that Kien exists still :jaw:

:popcorn:

Hmmmm...

Rumor has it Kien was abducted by aliens.

But what’s his tank look like these days!!? :biggrin:

I had heard he had been abducted by the local photography club because when he does take pictures he puts everyone else to shame... but aliens works for me too

C'mon Kien, I dare ya to post some pics of your tank

Whoa! This thread is hoppin!

WHOA the Kien lives he escaped the clutches of the alien photographers


Now where are those pictures

Reports of my abduction were true. Except that it wasn’t aliens. It was my family. And possibly other hobbies :-)

:wink:But you still have your tank and everything is growing out :wink:

Yes, I still have my tank :-)

OMG I just noticed now that all of our photobucket photos are back!! Crazy. Someone mentioned this to me a few days ago but it didn’t sink in until now. I might actually start taking tank pictures again! When photobucket yanked all those photos I pretty much lost interest in taking anymore photos.

FTS!

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Also FTS.

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Looks beautiful
Weren't you hardcore SPS before?

That was so 2010 :lol:

Looks great boss! That corky is pretty huge.

Looks like time for a reset or upgrade to me.

Wow! You have been holding out. SPS is on the back burner but a nice softie display is what I see!

I think the corky is the only softy in there ? Is GSP considered softy? I mostly have a mix of LPS and still have some (easy) SPS sprinkled about the tank. Birds nest, all the montis, etc.

Will an upgrade help with acquiring a SpacePect? Asking for a friend.

You were too scared for us to ship. Come for a visit and it's a done deal.

Ya I need to prune it back. It has become such a dominating show piece that some people are mistaking my tank for a softy dominate tank.

Still looking awesome; this tank idk why alway inspires me thanks :)

GET rid of those red mushrooms before they take over and become plague unless you like them then keep them ( but personally kill them with fire ) such a pain basically had to do a tank restart when i moved houses due to them. I wanted to not have them and they were everywhere on every rock cranny so I said F it and went with new rock and a new scape. They started small and we went on a 1 month backpack trip and idk what happened ( still conivinced my brother house sitter put mushroom steroids in my tank) but after we can back they had a mind of there own lol

haha ya, I guess I've been lucky that they haven't proliferated to plague proportions. I've had them a long long time too. They just don't seem to multiply, I don't know why! Maybe it's the particular species. There are different "red mushrooms". In fact, these ones are definitely more on the orange side, rather than red. I've seen much more red ones in the stores. Maybe that's the difference. I do love them though, as do most of my guests. They are one of the highlights of my tank (both figuratively and literally).

Nice update Kien!

BRING BACK THE STICKS!!!!

Hey y'all! I'm not sure if anyone remembers me, but back in the day I used to dabble a little in reef keeping. Anyway, figured I'd drop an update in case anyone cares.

As you can see here the tank is still sitting in my living room, simply existing.

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Nope, don’t remember you 🤣🤣

I thought I deleted this account.