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At 200 bar? That'd be some serious glass.

Depending on the species they could out-grow that tank in a year or less.

I sent you a PM with his email address.

If you're looking to get a group, some guy out of Winnipeg breeds them. The prices on his juveniles are very reasonable.

It's typically not recommended as it adds undesirable salts to the water. The best method for softening water is mixing it with RO, or using peat moss. Often people use a combination of the two depending on what they wish to achieve.

At the moment I'm only running a small setup: 240, 110, 90, 75, 48, 33, 2x15, 2x20 and 3x10. Once I get settled this summer after a likely move I'll start building a few new tanks. I'm thinking four more 6ft tanks for a start.

Had a few minor hiccups with getting the one done for yesterday. I plan to pick this up again later in the week with a new thread. This one is getting a bit long for easy viewing. Also condensing the pictures into the first two posts to clean this thread up.

My recommendation would be to burn the rock edge slightly. Semi-wide radius, highlights, maybe 25% exposure adjustment at one or two passes. That'd take the edge off.

Molino, I'll give you honest critique on these. I think these would work far better as crops. The fish are simply too small in the frame for it to be effective. I'm also curious about how you blacked out the background, something looks very unnatural to my eyes. There is no light drop-off along the rockface and the change to pitch black is very sharp. I'd also like to mention that you missed some waterspots in the first picture, though some may be clone marks. There's an arc of dots directly above from the eye of the Nimbochromis and a line which runs parallel to the rock from the third dorsal ray upwards. Also, you can see a area of faint off-black if you go left from the bottom of the anal fin past the rock. Nice fish though. :beer:

About 3 weeks ago I purchased a trio of Polypterus ornatapinnis. The largest was about 8” and the other two were in the 4-5” range. I put them into a 75 gallon with a few dithers, they snacked on one or two but that was to be expected. Then earlier this week I added a small clown knife that I had been keeping for the last two months. He was growing very quickly, putting on some bulk and about 5”. I expected him to become a monster. This morning I found this, I can only assume they killed it during the night and picked it clean. Very cool fish! What am I going to keep with them though? I need more bichers I guess!

I've always liked the Neolamprologus cylindricus and am happy to see that yours is one of the nice ones. In many of those available the vertical barring doesn't extend completely down to the underside of the fish.

I'd post nudes instead except... :banned:

So if we go at a completely unreasonable 2 gallons per inch we're only at 2000? Not bad for a little tank, maybe in the bathroom?

I think it'd be more hilarious if he was cleaning the glass with a nice scrubbie-pad from the inside -roll-

Vic, I shoot all my pictures with a Nikon D50 DSLR. This particular series was taken with a Nikon 105mm f/2.8D lens and a SB600 flash overhead. If you look through this forum you'll see alot of my previous work. I didn't attached the exif data this time because he's using them as an ID series and it's a bit distracting. You mentioned you were using one of them as a background? Send me a private message with your resolution and email address. I'll do one up in the proper resolution so you don't have to stretch it out. The same goes for anyone else who wants to use one of my shots like that.

Nope those were Corydoras similis. It's the same fellows place but entirely different species and new shots.

Corydoras sterbai: Corydoras zygatus: Corydoras napoensis:

Yesterday evening I made a visit to Adam Revitts house in to attempt and catalogue the many Corydoras species hes keeping. After 18 species, three hours and a few snaps of the shutter I was done. In this thread I'm going to try and post one Corydoras profile shot per day. If I slack off, give me a hard time! Corydoras trilineatus: Corydoras copei: Corydoras habrosus: Enjoy!

I think Dat's enough 18" fish for any big tank!

Heh, I saw that thread... Nice shots!

From the sounds of it, you should be fine. Most of the light on tanks is for us and not the fish. As long as they have a relatively stable photoperiod (the sun would certainly count) then they don't need any significant intensity.

To be honest I think it needs significantly more levels if Discus and Tropheus are considered "on-par" with freshwater stingrays.

I'm afraid I'll have to agree with the previous poster about the tank. (Not so sure about the ladies) A larger tank is almost always a better purchase. It gives you more versatility and the greater water volume offers more security.

To be honest I already do! The first night here the large one decided to eat a member of a rather irritating victorian species that had been taking up tank space for awhile. Of course now he's out of snacks since I gave away the rest of the group to someone. -roll- I must say, I'm not opposed to getting a few more of the larger species and setting up a dedicated 150 gallon polypterid/oddball tank. I also have since noticed they had a senegalus at one of the local stores, which tempts me to go even further and setup two polypterid tanks. Maybe a 48 gallon for some P. sengegalus, a few ropefish and a black ghost knife. I've wanted to get a BGK for awhile anyhow to perhaps keep with my Rays, it's just a matter of getting it large enough it wouldn't be devoured, so this could serve as a growout.

I have to say it, the awesome videos in this thread tempted me too much! :smokey: Earlier this week I picked up a trio of Polypterus ornatapinnis, one at about 8" and two smaller in the 5" range. Very, very cool fish!