New member! Identify my loach!
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 10:47 pm
First of all, hello all! I am a new member of the forum, and I love my loaches!
Quick introduction - I have been keeping fish since I was a kid, all goldfish until I moved to Australia. There, I was lucky enough to start a freshwater tank, and acquired kuhlis! I fell in love with them immediately. A few years later, back in the US, I wasn't too into aquariums anymore, though I always had brown kuhlis around. Recently, my boyfriend (who is a huge aquarium fiend, and is a member of one of those aquatic plant associations ) and I decided to restart our tanks. I found Zodiac loaches and fell in love with them! Now, my interest in loaches has been re-kindled! I currently have 2 zodiacs, 2 brown kuhlis, 1 neon pink, and 1 "zipper" loach - though I don't think it is one... and also a dojo with my goldfish. And, I just can't get enough! My biggest want right now is a regular kuhli (the striped types) like I had in Australia. Strangely enough, I have NEVER seen them in California except only one recently at Ocean Aquarium in San Francisco... but we were unsuccessful in netting him for me to take home
Anyway. To my main question!
How do you guys take such wonderful photos of your aquarium? I'd like to take some photos of my loaches, including one of the "zipper" loach which is very small/young, so it doesn't have identifiable adult markings. Care to share any tips? My biggest problem is taking close up photos. It all ends up very blurry. All I have is a regular digital camera. I'll put up the few photos I've managed to take...
Thanks!
EDIT:
There's Pickles, one of my zodiacs.
Zodiac...
Zodiac...
The unknown! What is it? It's only about an inch long at the moment.
Sorry about the blurry photos!
Quick introduction - I have been keeping fish since I was a kid, all goldfish until I moved to Australia. There, I was lucky enough to start a freshwater tank, and acquired kuhlis! I fell in love with them immediately. A few years later, back in the US, I wasn't too into aquariums anymore, though I always had brown kuhlis around. Recently, my boyfriend (who is a huge aquarium fiend, and is a member of one of those aquatic plant associations ) and I decided to restart our tanks. I found Zodiac loaches and fell in love with them! Now, my interest in loaches has been re-kindled! I currently have 2 zodiacs, 2 brown kuhlis, 1 neon pink, and 1 "zipper" loach - though I don't think it is one... and also a dojo with my goldfish. And, I just can't get enough! My biggest want right now is a regular kuhli (the striped types) like I had in Australia. Strangely enough, I have NEVER seen them in California except only one recently at Ocean Aquarium in San Francisco... but we were unsuccessful in netting him for me to take home
Anyway. To my main question!
How do you guys take such wonderful photos of your aquarium? I'd like to take some photos of my loaches, including one of the "zipper" loach which is very small/young, so it doesn't have identifiable adult markings. Care to share any tips? My biggest problem is taking close up photos. It all ends up very blurry. All I have is a regular digital camera. I'll put up the few photos I've managed to take...
Thanks!
EDIT:
There's Pickles, one of my zodiacs.
Zodiac...
Zodiac...
The unknown! What is it? It's only about an inch long at the moment.
Sorry about the blurry photos!