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Pictures from the river tank

Post by LES.. » Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:11 pm

I spent a while bothering my loaches this evening.

First showing off with the macro lens
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That was from the lovely Gastromyzon viriosus that we got at the last loach meet (-: A slightly less cropped picture of the same fish:
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Another new inhabitant, Gastromyzon zebrinus these are really starting to settle in well and we had our first shoving match last night (naturally when i didn't have the camera to hand!)
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I managed to capture a shot of our lovely but very secretive Sinogastromyzon wui hiding under a stone, focus is a little out as it was too dark there for the auto focus to work.
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No post would be without a few P. cheni pictures, they are causing chaos as ever.
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The youngest one in the tank
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As ever you can find full size copies of the images if you click on them or browse my loach channel on ovi.com: http://share.ovi.com/channel/Dienyddio.loaches
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Post by mickthefish » Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:30 pm

brilliant pics Les,, i like the zebrinis you have mate.

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Post by Graeme Robson » Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:31 pm

Superb pictures Les! 8)
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Post by Jim Powers » Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:31 pm

Great shots!!!
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Post by farid » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:57 pm

Hi LES,
nice shots!
oh i would love to find some zebrinus...how big are they now?

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Post by janma » Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:00 am

Nice pics, I too like the zebrinus. They are gorgeous! One of mine has the lower part of the body in a redish hue. They seem to stay smaller than for example the ocellatus.
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Post by odyssey » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:42 am

Hi LES..
Wonderful photographs! Thank you for showing.

The single-lens reflex camera is good as expected!
It's possible to judge the detail which has not been seen so far from a high-resolution picture of 2784 x 2428.
Of course it is not only the performance of the camera.
My desire to SLR and macro lens was stimulated.
It'll be bought next year!

The pictures taken by my compact camera are placed on below.
The fish species you're raising may be akin to mine.

Gastromyzon viriosus.
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Gastromyzon zebrinus.
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Sinogastromyzon wui.
They're timid. Therefore the chance which can take a picture of their upper side is rare.
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Pseudogastromyzon cheni.
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PS.
I watched underwater photographs of your Maldives. I have not yet watched Manta ray. I want to go the Maldives in the future, too.
I am not used to English. Therefore,It is likely to sometimes misunderstand it.
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Post by Keith Wolcott » Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:37 am

LES.. and odyssey- You two (and farid) have set the photography bar very high indeed. LES.., that close up of the eye really is impressive and the last picture of the cute young one is very nice.
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Post by LES.. » Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:54 pm

farid wrote: oh i would love to find some zebrinus...how big are they now?
They are a range of sizes, i would say the smallest is just over 2.5cm and the largest is just shy of the 4cm mark. We have 6 in the tank but you rarely see more than 4 at a time (-:

@Odyssey, Sinogastromyzon wui have to be one of the most beautiful hillies out there, yours is an absolute stunner (-: It looks like you have some real characters in your Cehni too.

I'm very happy with the mix of loaches i have now, maybe a few more Wui but we have not been that successful keeping them and definitely a few more G. viriosus (-:

Thanks for all the comments on the photos, i noticed on the monitor at work i need to work on the white balance a bit more, they looked fine on my CRT at home but a little on the green side on the LCD at work, too much valis in the tank messing with the flash!
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Post by hx » Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:04 pm

Keith Wolcott wrote:LES.. and odyssey- You two (and farid) have set the photography bar very high indeed...
We need another forum with new rules. These guys would get banned for being just too good. It's not fair.
You know guys, there is free downloadable software you can use to blur and miscolor your photos?
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Post by farid » Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:59 pm

JAJAJA

but i make the new rules :) lol

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Post by LES.. » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:51 pm

hx wrote:We need another forum with new rules. These guys would get banned for being just too good. It's not fair.
Hah! You know you'd be out of there too on account of your fabrication skills (-:
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Post by Emma Turner » Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:17 pm

Fantastic pics, Les! 8) A new batch of Gastros arrived last night, will check them out and let you know if there are any more G. viriosus. There was one absolutely enormous Gastro in that bag, but couldn't see what species it was as it was too dark.

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Post by Jim Powers » Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:43 pm

Oooooo!! I can't wait to find out what that big one is.
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