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Felhad, For me the secret was a tripod. No matter what I tried with three different cameras, I didn't get what I thought were clear pictures until I put the camera on a tripod. In retrospect, this makes sense. The closer you zoom so that you can fill the frame with the fish, the more any shake in th...

You could do something with common intake and return lines, and isolate each filter with shutoff valves, allowing independent maintenace and so forth. If you do that, you have to consider the overall system and things like back pressure on the filters, size of the plumbing in order to not restrict f...

I saw some of these Mollies today at one of the LFS. I hate that this is happening. But I'm not sure that I can blame the LFS. In many cases, the LFS is losing a lot of business, especailly hardware, to the Internet and/or the pet superstores. They have to sell something to survive. Live stock is ma...

Super pictures. Thanks for sharing them.

Rick

Kelp, There are 30 gallon tanks, and there are 30 gallon tanks. I have two myself. They are both about 36" x 18" x 12". But one stands on a 12" side and the other stands on an 18" side. This is important because another 'rule of thumb' in regards to how many fish to keep has to do with the amount of...

Here are two new pics of the young Zippers, taken yesterday. This is the roughly the same position as one of the first pictures posted. You can see the tip of the heater in the bakground. http://home.att.net/~rmau/images/ZipperFryJan141.jpg This is the pair of youngsters. They are both over an inch ...

Very nice tank, loaches and pics.

Thanks for sharing.

Rick

Martin, thank you very much. It was my pleasure to be able to add to the body of loach knowledge that all of you have spent so much time assembling.

I'll post updates and pictures on occassion as the babies mature.

Rick

Thank you Graeme.

If that is what it is, we have three of them.

Rick

The one on the left is a Dario. The one on the right is a ...?



Rick

Early on in this thread I mentioned that I found these babies when changing ghe gravel in one of our tanks. Here is a shot of the old gravel, a couple of regular AA batteries and the new tank gravel in the background. You cna see that the old gravel made a good place for eggs to 'hide' and hatch in ...

Thank you very much Emma. And thank you too, everyone who has made all the gracious comments on our fish.

Rick

but you'll have to put your own names to them. Try as I might, I cannot keep some of these straight.



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Enjoy,

Rick

A better look can be had over in the freshwater section. I posted a solo shot of the fish over there. Titled it Farlowella though because I hadn't seen Emma' post.

Rick

Doing the clown loachy thing. http://home.att.net/~rmau/images/5Clowns.jpg Sorry the pic is a bit off. I can't get one of bunch to pose, never mind all five of them. And then there are all the other fish in the tank that swim in and out of the frame. The other photographers who post here must have t...