kien's 150g Room Divider Mixed Reef & Stuff

[kien]

Originally Posted by yycguy

Your tank looks fantastic Kien.
I also think you should pop by my place and photograph my corals !

Thanks!

Originally Posted by daplatapus

....and give us more coral photos

OK!

Boring Green Acropora austera.



Strawberry Shortcake knock-off.



Branching Cyphastrea



Neon Green Pocillopora





Forest Fire Digitata







Tyree Red Dragon

[Magickiwi]

Kien, your tank makes me green with envy. The livestock you have is just amazing!

You say you're running biopellets, but from what I understand you aren't supposed to run carbon with biopellets. Do you use a different adsorbent? I'm seriously thinking about starting up a biopellet reactor but I'm also attached to my carbon (weird huh?).

Also what sort of photography setup do you have? I have a Canon 40D with all L-series glass. I have a 100mm macro lens with a matching polarized filter and that's what I'll likely be taking my tank photos with.

[kien]

Originally Posted by Magickiwi

Kien, your tank makes me green with envy. The livestock you have is just amazing!

You say you're running biopellets, but from what I understand you aren't supposed to run carbon with biopellets. Do you use a different adsorbent? I'm seriously thinking about starting up a biopellet reactor but I'm also attached to my carbon (weird huh?).

Also what sort of photography setup do you have? I have a Canon 40D with all L-series glass. I have a 100mm macro lens with a matching polarized filter and that's what I'll likely be taking my tank photos with.

Thanks ! I can't say that I've ever heard that you shouldn't run activated carbon with bioPellets. They both do completely different things. I've been running carbon in conjunction with my bioPellets for 4 years now. Perhaps you (or your sources) were meaning organic carbon like what's used in other carbon dosing methods? That is, Vodka, Sugar, Vinegar, ZeoVit&Prodibio carbon sources, etc? I definitely would not recommend dosing other organic carbons with bioPellets. Having said that, I know of some people who have attempted this. And no, not weird, I like my activated carbon too :-) .. if in fact you were meaning activated carbon and not organic carbons.

You have the same photo gear I do. In addition I have a canon 5D Mark II. I shoot with the 5D sometimes but I actually prefer the 40D because it's smaller and lighter (for my dainty hands) :-) As for lenses, I'll either shoot with the 100mm macro or my 24-105 F4 zoom depending on my mood.

[thmh]

Wow your setosa growth form is crazy kien!

~Tony

[thmh]

Originally Posted by kien

Funny, that's what my wife- oh nevermind.

Lmao kien!

~Tony

[kien]

Purple Gorgonia.



Blue tipped green stag. This frag hasn't done much of anything for half a year now.



Unknown Acropora. Possibly Rosaria.



Green birdsnest. Very weedy. Fastest growing thing in my tank.



Unknown Blue-Green Acro. Possibly Turaki.



Pink Millipora. Fast Grower. Started out as this 1" nub on a frag plug last fall..



And is now this colony today.



Orange Digi. Another fast grower which I really should frag soon.. Started out as a 2" frag on a frag disc last fall..



And is now this colony.



Green Acropora turaki. 1" frag from last fall..



Mini-colony today.



ORA Ponape Birdsnest.



This was purchased as a pink Prostrata. It quickly turned into a Blue-Purple Prostrata.

[Sahin]

Wow, what an amazing tank. Your photography is excellent - thanks for the eye candy.

PS where is the FTS everyone is asking for?

[kien]

Originally Posted by Sahin

Wow, what an amazing tank. Your photography is excellent - thanks for the eye candy.

PS where is the FTS everyone is asking for?

Thanks :-)

[kien]

So, since I recently had some room freed up in the tank I decided to go looking for stuff to fill the space with. I ended up stumbling upon an up and coming vendor known as MadJellyCorals (apparently their corals go PEW! PEW!). I didn't really understand their company name at first but after a few conversations with them I figured it out

First of all, great guys to deal with. Although they are only just starting to, well, start up, my experience with them gave me the impression that they'd been at this for a while already. The communication was top notch, the delivery was exceptional and the product was among the best I've ever received from an online vendor.

My MadJelly loot!

Tyree Rainbow Stylophora



Fire and Ice Enchinata





Sunset/Christmas Millepora



Red-Yellow eye chalice.



Great stuff 'fo shizzle.

[Dez]

Originally Posted by kien

Ya, I actually don't mind it! The fabric doesn't work though, the wrinkles show. I may try getting some poster board and spray painting it blue. Maybe add a gradient. I actually don't like taking FTS because of all the insane reflections and the distracting background of the room behind/in front of the tank. I think this will be a good solution if I can find a good medium for the blue.

Nice pics Kien. Now you just need to bring that poster board to Edmonton when you and Brett visit next month and take some FTSs for me. It's tough to take good FTSs with a 2 side viewable tank.