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Just a load of pics I took this month of lots of different species from my aquaria. Everything from rainbows, to shrimp,to blue acaras, talking catfish, banjo's , well everything really. A lot are macro pics, showing a level of detail I hope you appreciate, and a few have been modded in photoshop to make them look like specimen photos. Obviously if this site or anyone wants to copy them for the profiles or anything, just rip em and use em as you wish, I find the talking catfish one makes a good desktop.

Enjoy!

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Hope you liked them!

wow! those are some great pics, I liked every one of them. Your right the talking catfish pic would make a nice desktop. What kind of cat is the one thats black with white specs, looks like it may be a syno. species.
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-Vincent

The cat i think you mean is a pimelodus pictus, the doradid is a spotted rapheal cat, the other cats are a shoulderspot, bronze cories, and a rio del para plec, and obviously the others are banjo cats. If you mean the upside down one, thats a close up ventral view of a 3 cm baby banjo! Despite having banjos a while id never really seen them from underneath either, but then that one fell asleep againt the glass, and I got the opportunity to take the piccie. Theres a few ottos too, you never really see just how hairy they are until you see them in macro.

I should have posted a species list really, the polypterus is a 9cm baby senegal,in one pic hes eating tubifex, so hes just a little guy at the moment. The rainbows are a boesmanii male and a new guinea red female, theres a krib,and the rams are bolivians, and the orange cichlids are obviously those mutated parrot cichlid things. (shh we dont talk about them and you never saw them )

Excellent photos & some beautiful fish!

I actually saw teeth on a couple of them!

Yeah, I noticed that, particularly on the rainbowfish, until I used the macro on them I didnt actually know that they had exposed rasping denticles on the edge of the lips. This explains a couple of things, one how some females find it easy to rasp algae in preparation for gravidity, and two, how easy it is for rainbows to get lip infections, I suppose there is an easy entry for fungal spores around the base of the denticles. Weird thing about rainbows though, is that the closer you get to some of them , the more pixellated they look, its just the way the pigmentation shows through the scales, but for ages I was scratching my head about it and wondering why the camera was freaking out. Their scales are overlapped, and this sometimes looks like a double image blur, but it actually isnt. Human error lol.

The other thing that does irritate me about macro photography is that the camera flash can never be inclined enough so that the lower half of the pic is illuminated, which is very irritating.Especially when the fish in question will probably bugger off if you go to grab a second flash or a torch. Im tempted to buy one of those led rings you can have to attach to macro lenses, but being that i have an s2 IS Canon, my chances are slim.

My current only way round it is to switch to supermacro, decenter the focus spot, then focus on the eye of the fish, lock it in place in manual, then aim above the fish and shoot. Then I have to crop the dark bit off that runs along the bottom of the pic in photoshop.

How people who arent double jointed manage this though, Im not sure. I am double jointed and it gives me finger cramp in about one minute flat. Too many buttons in odd places my camera.