This guy apparently really loved the camera that day:

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The feeding frenzy begins..

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Blastomussas!!! Some of my favourite corals..
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.. And Acans..
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Just look at the trigger. It looks so amazed :mrgreen:

sweet pics tony man nice coral too:)

I'm such a sucker for shag carpets. Both these are Stichodactyla gigantea (and the clownfish are Amphiprion ocellaris). The green I have had since 2004, the purple since 2008 I think (maybe 2009).

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It's actually kind of hard NOT to get a photo of the trigger. She loves attention..
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Oh! Are you taking another picture? Let me get in there...
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HIGH-FIVE!!!!
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Stunning Tony!

Aaand, I think that's all 75. Wowza, that's a lot of pictures!!

Thanks for looking. :)

Thanks Jason!

Haha yeah she sort of does! I think that was when the clam first hit the sand and they're all figuring out who's gonna get to flip it over.

Thanks Denny!! I can't take any credit for the pictures .. I look at some of those and I'm like .. that's in MY tank ??? Who knew! .. Man I am going to have to save up to get a nicer camera some day... :) Camera or LEDs .. Camera or LEDs ... decisions decisions!

seriously, that trigger is gorgeous but I had to crop her out of A LOT of photos LOL. She's like Miss Piggy. Look at Moi! No seriously, LOOK AT MOI NOW! Rabbit fish and moi! Lavender Tang and moi! Birds nest coral and moi! :lol:

Those carpets are gorgeous too. You don't see those every day!

That tank is looking great. Are you planning to put a moulding or trim around the tank when the drywall has been all painted?

What camera are you using now? Stunning pictures by the way! I've spent $2K+ on camera gear and cant even touch those pictures :cry:

Hahahahahaha!!!! :lol: That's awesome. That might just have to be her new nickname!

She makes feeding the LPS a very interesting experience. It totally doesn't matter how late into the night I wait, she shows up. "OH, DO YOU HAVE PELLETS? I WUV PELLETS NUM NUM!!"

Thanks, they are definitely a favourite of mine too. I used to have a huge ritteri anemone for many years and the thing was gorgeous but a high maintenance beast. These guys are quite tame in comparison.

Thanks! Yes, the moulding is a project coming up in the next few weeks (the rest of the basement needs it as well around the doors and such.) Nothing too elaborate planned for the tank, just some moulding on tops and sides and a small trim along the bottom. Just enough to put a drink on or rest the wrists on while staring into the tank.

A Canon Kien pro model was used for this last set. Very exclusive model, I've not been able to find any available in stores. Well, you might find one in a reef store on a day a good shipment arrives :)

I feel like a dummy for googling "Canon Kien" sigh... going to bed.

thanks, you just made me google "Canon Kien" sigh... going to bed too.

Tank's looking awesome Tony. I think that green carpet has grown a lot since I last saw it. Interesting growth form on that birds nest too it's pretty thick. That trigger is such a freaking pig but he was fun to feed lol.

Great pics Tony so thanks for sharing. Those are some pretty monstrous carpet anemones you have in there!

Those clam feeding frenzy photos are fantastic!

Damn Tony! The tank is looking stellar. It almost makes me want to go work on my own tank..almost! I'll probably just keep looking at your pics instead.

I'm still jealous you have a matched set of Bellus in there. They just don't come up on the fish lists very often anymore :neutral:

Great pics as usual Kien, wish you could come by my place and make my tank look as good as Tonys (now that would be a REAL test of your skillz! :wink:)

Amazing Pics Tony.

I really need to borrow the Canon Kien from you one of these days.

Challenge accepted! :-D

I hear you can rent the Canon Kien for frags or popcorn.

Thanks all.

Christy, yeah, I got real lucky with this pair that came out of a Canreefer's tank being shutdown. I see Genicanthus sp. from time time in the stores but definitely on rare occasion, like maybe once or twice a year at best. These two in particular I still wonder if they are truly a "pair" or just a male and a female. They don't seem to be hugely enamored with one another... However, the female seems to stay a female, so maybe that's just how pairs behave. :noidea:

Tony, the tank is looking great! And I love those fish pics. I can never get shots like that. Kien definitely has the touch.

You guys do know that Tony's tank is actually empty and all those photos are just photo shopped. That's how good Kien is!!!

Indeed, I am very good at Cutting & Pasting.

:woot:

Wow Tony. Tank sure is looking good. Absolutely beautiful pics.

How do they get the meat from the closed clam? Or does the trigger open it for them. :lol: If you remember my pics from feeding my copperband, I use to half them and put the half on a nori clip I had on a long pole.

Thanks Doug!

When I buy the clams I just put them in the freezer, so they are frozen solid. If I can saw them apart at that point with a knife or something, then sometimes I do that, but lately my 7 year old son has taking a liking to feeding the clams to the fish, and what he likes best about the process is smashing the clam with a hammer (these big ones that I'm using now are really hard to crack open with a knife anyhow). So what you can't see is that on the other side of the clam that was facing away from the camera was that there were pieces of the shell broken off and the fish get their snouts into the holes from there.

Tony it appears your SPS problems have been fixed :biggrin:!

Loving it buddy, swapping my background shot to this one right now.

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Amazing pics Tony!

your fishes and corals look awesome

Looking really really really good there Tony.

Also, loving your camera skills.

Camera Smurf sure has some skillz
Tank is amazing Tony

Thanks guys! You're too kind. Honestly, I see this tank every day (every day!!) and I don't think it's as nice as these pictures portray. It's an odd effect for sure.

@Levi - Thanks man. In hindsight I am thinking that most of my SPS issues were PO4 related. I think just because a test kit says it's low enough doesn't mean it really is low enough. Things still aren't 100% these days, I lose frags or have recession here or there but I really notice it if I let the GFO slide for too long. If I replace it weekly, things just look, behave, and grow better. If I let it go to two weeks it's hard to say how exactly but it just becomes noticeable and there's an almost instant bounce back as soon as new GFO gets put on. 1 cup per week seems to be the magic amount.

Are you going through 24lbs a year :surprise::surprise::surprise: ???

Hmmmm, no, I don't think so ... Although I guess it is something like 16 though. I buy whatever fits in a 1 gallon container and this seems to be about 7-8 lbs and I have to replace it .. hmmmm I need to take better notes, but I think it's twice a year. Man, now you have me thinking. It definitely hurts the wallet when I need to get more.

Looks good. Thankfully the cement will be able to hold all that weight!

I wouldn't be able to afford changing mine every week

The HC GFO I just used up came from Chin_Lee's group buy
3lbs gave me 6 cups, so 6 4week uses
In the future I plan on using the BRS calculator's recommended 0.86 cups for my 110g system, so hopefully 10 cups/5lbs will get me a year's use