kien's 150g Room Divider Mixed Reef & Stuff

[Rice Reef]

Awesome pics as always! Sorry that you lost some corals but the tank looks like it is making a nice comeback!

[kien]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Four years! Blows my mind man... I'm hoping to follow in your tiny footprints! Pics are bangin' like always. I'm loving the monti collection they all look fab. I forgot all about the superman. I used to have a branching one and it grew nutty fast. Wonder why it's not for sale all over the place.

Originally Posted by Rice Reef

Awesome pics as always! Sorry that you lost some corals but the tank looks like it is making a nice comeback!

Thanks guys! Ya, I used to have both the Superman encrusting monti and branching digi. Sadly I've lost both and am trying to source out replacements. Funny thing is, I do have a superman monti that I got from a local reefer, but its growing is very odd. It encrusts but you can hardly see its polyps at all. They are either constantly retracted, like ALWAYS retract, or their polyps are naturally really small. Like, grain of sugar sand small.

[kien]

Bali green slimer stag.



Unknown acropora.



Blue polyp Austera.



Tri-colour Acropora valida. (aka. Bonsai valida)



A frag of the same coral, planted eleswhere in the tank.



Pink/Purple Stylophora. Looks more blue due to the 22K bulbs but more purple/pink in person.



Crayola plana mutant. This started out as a typical Crayola plana but has decided it wanted to be something else instead.

[Zoaelite]

Work blocks all of my photos so I'm just going to imagine all of your amazing shots...


Ooohh ahhhhh... ooooo Kien your photo skillz are so legendary!!










Actually though, excited to get home and see these.

[fragbox.ca]

Originally Posted by Zoaelite

Work blocks all of my photos so I'm just going to imagine all of your amazing shots...


Ooohh ahhhhh... ooooo Kien your photo skillz are so legendary!!

this $hit cracked me up hard ahahaah

[kien]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

Wheres the other build thread then??

nevermind :-)

Originally Posted by explor3r

Wow very impressive your reef is beautiful and the colours are great.
You take great pictures I was drooling here looking at them, what you think is being the biggest challenge so far...

Thanks! Any you know, that's a very good question! There have been (and continue to be) so many big challenges. I don't know if I can really pin point one. Over the four years the tank has been hit with a lot of things. From the usual struggling with chemistry, heat, disease, red bugs, algae, cyano, to equipment failures, natural disasters, long power outages, lack of time. Ya, I don't think there was any one thing that stood out really. It's all kinda a blur really

[Skimmerking]

[JDigital]

Post FTS FFS!

I'll show you mine if you show me yours..

[kien]

Originally Posted by JDigital

Post FTS FFS!

I'll show you mine if you show me yours..

I'm getting to that

But in the meantime..

Blue with Green polyp Postrata





FAL Poison Ivy



ORA Red Planet





For comparisons sake, it started out as this frag last fall..



And is now this colony.



ORA Pink Lemonade. Here it is as a frag from last fall..



Here it is today.



Pink Lemonade about to get cozy with the Red Planet.



Purple stylophora with green base. Fast grower. Should probably frag soon.

[Skimmerking]

nice buds