kien's 150g Room Divider Mixed Reef & Stuff

[BlueAbyss]

Wow, how can I not try SPS after seeing this

Amazing. That first coral in post 172 blows my mind, could you tell me what it is?

[kien]

Originally Posted by MikeP

Great vids, that's a nice looking RBTA wink wink

Congrats on the baby!

Thanks! Love the RBTA, I think it is int he process of splitting AGAIN! Looking back at the vids now I think next time I'll turn of the 6800gph powerheads first.. hehe. But then that still won't keep the boxfish from picking at me.. the little bugger.

Originally Posted by JDigital

Tank looks awesome kien! Rockwork is fantastic!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by BlueAbyss

Wow, how can I not try SPS after seeing this

Amazing. That first coral in post 172 blows my mind, could you tell me what it is?

I believe that is a montipora of some sort. I don't know its name, only that it has a green base and blue polyps. I have seen it posted for sale online as a digitata but I'm told it is not a digitata so *shrug*. Sorry I don't have much more information than that.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Absolutely gorgeous tank. Very healthy, colourful corals. Truly amazing reef system you've built there. Should be proud since this is the look many aspire to, but few ever achieve.

Anthony

[kien]

Well, it's been a couple of weeks now since the non-flooding flooding incident/event. The good news is that a few corals did not make it which means that a bit of precious tank real estate has freed up! I'm actually not too upset about the corals that were lost (if you didn't already notice). Mostly because they were the more common (easy to obtain) corals like green tenuis, birdsnest, blue stag, millies, etc. Thankfully I did not lose any of my more prized corals. Well, not yet anyway..



The gooder news is that the tank seems to have settled back down. A few other colonies lost a bit of colour but they've stabilized so they will probably pull through. At the end of the day it wasn't a complete disaster for the tank so I'm happy about that. The tank has definitely looked worse!

On another note, this month marks the 4 year anniversary of this tank. Crazy! It is a bit of a milestone as I have never had a tank for this long before. I'm not going to go into too much of a retrospective here. I'll save that for the 5 year anniversary. Anyway, MOAR PICTURES!!

A couple of Sexies hanging out in their Maxi Mini Pad.











The Red Bubble tip. I've had this guy for over 4 years now. He he split sometime last month so now there are two of them.





One of three clams that I've also had for over 4 years.



One of my all time favs, the Aussie Gold Torch.





A Red Goni that I've had for 3, almost 4 years now. This guy is virtually indestructible (he's probably going to be dead by the morning.. doh). He used to live in my "131g FOWLR" where he eventually became the target of abuse by my angels. Half beat up, I finally noticed and took him out and put him in my 150g reef. He heeled up nicely only to be stung by pretty much EVERYONE near him, including a patch of GSP which took out half of him, again. After moving him to spot that has a nice 8" radius of nothing but sand and rock he was able to settle in and recover nicely (again). Except now it's PAYBACK. He extends his tentacles 8 inches and wipes out anyone within reach. Seriously, who knew Gonioporas could be so powerful. I call him the PUNISHER.



The Duncan. He's growing dangerously close to THE PUNISHER. I heard a rumour that some locations are starting to ban the harvesting of duncans.



Blostomusa.



Blue eyed red Goni. Different from THE PUNISHER as this one has a blue centre. Tiny frag I got from Concepts about a month ago.



Bubblicious Coral.



A cool favia I found at Concepts a few months back. Not sure if it has one of those fancy schmancy names or not. I'm not very good with fancy favia names.



Pink/Purple Urchin. Love this little guy/girl/it. Always a fav among house guests. She can really cruise too!

[neoh]

what camera and lense do you use to take such wonderful photos?

[Bblinks]

Originally Posted by neoh

what camera and lense do you use to take such wonderful photos?

That's because kien takes shots mission impossible style, hanging from the ceiling.

Always impressive shots kien! Glad to hear everything is stabilizing again.

[Myka]

Great photos! Everything looks happy! --Except those SPS corals in the bucket! You definitely look at the bright side.

[daplatapus]

Very nice. Glad everything is on the rebound. I love the colour of your Duncan's and that Favia is really cool.
Is that urchin a type of pincushion?

[b09u5]

Great photos kien! Sorry to hear about the freeing up of real estate, but it seems that it could have been a lot worse.

I suppose on top of all these costs for me to get into the hobby, I am going to have to add on an expensive camera and lens, so that I can try to keep up! Luckily I won't have much to shoot for a few more years.

Congrats on the 4 year anniversary!