BABY 'BAROMETERS'

shari2 · Post by **shari2** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:27 pm

they even have little baby faces! cute Emma, very cute.

Mad Duff · Post by **Mad Duff** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:21 am

Excellent pictures Emma, these guys have certainly come on since we saw them at the last LOL meet

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:53 pm

Thanks all, yes I'm very pleased with their progress.

Emma

Graeme Robson · Post by **Graeme Robson** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:47 pm

Aye aye! I missed these new pictures!

Lovely!

Martin Thoene · Post by **Martin Thoene** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:54 pm

These latest pictures are just incredibly good Em. They have such nice markings.

Martin.

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:52 pm

Cheers chaps!

They have been very active today, up and down, doing the loachy dance. We've been having thunderstorms on and off all day, so 'tis true what they say about these wonderous creatures!

Emma

TeeCeeJay · Post by **TeeCeeJay** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:17 am

Emma,

Once again fantastic photos.

I don't want to send this thread off topic but would you mind posting a picture/description of how you set up the camera & lights for taking these excellent pics of such small fish?

TC

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:40 am

Hi TC,

Of course, I don't mind you asking, but you know, I wasn't that happy with this last set of pics (I thought the set before were better). Still the actual set-up for both was the same.

These little loaches are growing on in a small tank at the moment, which makes photographing a little easier. It was an old photo tank of mine, which measures 12" in length x 8" wide and 8" high. (It actually wasn't that good for photographing fish in anyway - narrower tanks are much easier - but this is still easier than if they were in a normal sized tank). The tank doesn't have any lights over it (would make the small volume of water too warm) so I just used my little 40w desk lamp for temporary lighting whilst I was taking the pics. I stood it on a chair to the right of the tank, slightly towards the back of the tank and angled to face slightly forwards. I also used the in-built flash on my camera (Nikon Coolpix 8700) to help too, and shot in manual mode on macro setting.

Hope this helps,

Emma

sophie · Post by **sophie** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:06 pm

they are just fantastic!

butterfly01 · Post by **butterfly01** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:46 pm

Such beautiful babies and the pictures are fantastic! What do they eat at such a small size?
Carol

Barracuda518 · Post by **Barracuda518** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 3:32 pm

Wow, they have grown nicely

I saw some healthy looking gold dojos the other day. I would have gotten them if I had some where to put them.

Keep up the good work

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 6:56 pm

Thanks to all for the great comments.

butterfly01 wrote:Such beautiful babies and the pictures are fantastic! What do they eat at such a small size?
Carol

They seem to eat any foods offered to them with gusto!

I started them off on Interpet Liquifry No 3 Baby Growth food (a very fine but nutritious yellow powder) and frozen baby brineshrimp and cyclops. They now enjoy daphnia as well, and will munch on crumbled flake crisps, different brands of micropellets (sinking) and even on larger pellets which soften up once they hit the water. So they have posed no problems whatsoever with regards to feeding - they seem to enjoy everything.

Emma

piggy4 · Post by **piggy4** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:10 pm

Fantastic pics Emma, just looking at the head pics, i must say they remind me a little of the Vietnamese hog fish [ Lep sp/]

daspricey · Post by **daspricey** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 4:25 pm

Wow, they are growing up so fast. They are wonderful!

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