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The reason you have all had to wait for my photos is because there are a LOT of them. Be advised that the full sized photos are HUGE, and if you want to see them at full size, you will almost certainly NEED a broadband connection. Even the basic sized shots are going to take time to appear, let alone the 2048x1536 originals!

Anyway, here they are:

Snakeskin Gouramis

Butis butis, the Crazy Fish

Hard to photograph Galaxy Rasboras in dark tank

Hard to photograph Galaxy Rasboras again

Hard to photograph Galaxy Rasboras 3rd shot

Arowanas 1

Arowanas 2

Lamprologus ocellatus "Gold" overview

Lamprologus ocellatus "Gold" closeup

Juvenile Anomalochromis thomasi overview

Anomalochromis thomasi closeup

Nimbochromis livingstonii juveniles

Nimbochromis venustus juvenile

Botia sidthimunki babies 1

Botia sidthimunki babies 2

Botia sidthimunki babies 3

Lamarck's Angel with Copper Band Butterfly and Fuzzy Dwarf Lionfish

Geniacanthis lamarcki again

Wimplefishes plus Zebrasoma desjardinii Sailfin Tang (face on)

Black Velvet Damsel emerging from rock cave

Baby Regal Tang and Pomacentrus alleni Damselfishes

Juvenile Pterois volitans Lionfish - see if you can spot the Nemateleotris decora and the Pyjama Cardinal in the same shot!

Naso vlamingii in big community setup

Naso vlamingii close up

Cryptocentrus leptocephalus symbiotic Goby

Calloplesiops altivelis with some Anthias sharing its tank

Xanthichthys aureomarginatus Blue Chin Trigger

Fusilier, possibly a Caesio species - can anyone identify this?

Valentini Puffer

Dragon Wrasse 1

Dragon Wrasse 2

Dragon Wrasse 3

Paracheilinus cyaneus Flasher Wrasse 1

Paracheilinus cyaneus Flasher Wrasse 2

Paracheilinus cyaneus Flasher Wrasse 3

Enjoy, everyone!






Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Nice photos, Cali. Thanks for posting them.

Jim

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. -- Mark Twain

Nice to see the stock without having to get out of my chair! The dragon wrasse are pretty spectacular, I could never be bored of watching a fish like that.

You have an eye for a picture, but why do your photos gave grain lines across them?

Blame Fuji for the graininess - it seems that the camera can't take pics without grain appearing unless you carpet bomb the scene with light (sigh). And, since I didn't have my Olympos T20 flash handy to use as an external flash at the time, I had to make do with the weedy built in flash. Basically, if the light level drops below decent daylight levels, the chip produces unwanted noise. So much for Fuji's much vaunted Super CCD chip eh?


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Beautiful fish!

I too especially liked the dragon wrasse! It looked like a large green caterpillar!

Where are the plecs?

Nice salties.

I too especially liked the dragon wrasse! It looked like a large green caterpillar!

Funny you should say that Fish Patty - more than one person in the shop said the same thing, even more so when they saw the way it moved, though to my eyes it was reminiscent of certain nudibranchs when swimming (though I cannot say for certain that its outlandish appearance is in any way Batesian mimicry of nudibranchs, the idea would make sense to me, particularly given that its weird undulating swimming motion is highly reminiscent, to my eyes anyway, of those nudibranchs known as "Spanish Dancers".

Where are the plecs?

Well, if you read my original account of the trip in the Recovery Room, you'd know that there were VERY few catfish of ANY kind there on this occasion (sigh), the only Corys they had were Bronze & Albino (whereas on previous occasions they've had sterbai, guapore and half a dozen others) and the only Loricariid was a solitary L-316 that refused to come out of its bogwood cave for pics. Given my camera's less than happy performance in subdued lighting (not only the graininess that appears in the images, but the increasing tendency of the autofocus mechanism to fail to 'lock on' to a target) trying to photograph even its face was a chore given that there was NO contrast whatsoever between the fish and the wood.

I'm due to make a return trip to pick up a couple more SAEs. The next time, now that I've found where it's lurking among my heaps of gear on the sofa, I'm going to take the bolt on flashgun that I use with my Olympus 35mm film camera, because that flashgun carpet bombs the scenery with light and means I'll be able to use faster speeds and narrower apertures with the CCD chip than I can with the standard inbuilt flash. Then I might even stand a chance of getting a decent pic of the Galaxy Rasboras if they haven't all been snapped up.

Of course, the one I really want to photograph is the Flasher Wrasse with its dorsal extended in 'signalling' mode - believe me, when you see that happen the first time, it blows your socks off!

Hopefully when I make my return trip and get a couple more SAEs, they'll have more catfish. Anyway Noodles, aren't you in the LEAST bit excited about the Botia sidthimunki?


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002