Froggie

I'd settle for my Rays to eat any pelleted food. It's yet to happen and starving most certainly didn't work.

No lighting whatsoever? It is possible, that if the temperature in the building were climbing a lot on hot days, that lighting may have been off to help keep some of the enclosures cooler. Not great for display purposes, but it may not have been an option.

Some of them did have lighting but a great number didn't have any on.

Hard water stains are a curse....if I were Dave, I would use only RO water for misting....especially for display cages.

Anyhow the general point was that without any lighting in the enclosures it was difficult enough to clearly see a few of the reptiles through the glass, let alone take pictures.

Don't bet on it...most herps can have the glass pretty icky within a few hours.

Included the snakes though and they were most definately hard water stains from misting, not to mention it was pretty through on both the inside and the out.

More like 5-10 minutes a day...and more for some.

Was going on the basis that the glass would only be cleaned perhaps once or twice a week. Given the state it was in, I'd guess it's closer to a month or two.

I can't possibly imagine the amount of time that would entail to keep it all clean.

Aside from the venomous reptiles, 10 minutes a week per enclosure?

This past weekend I made a visit to Reptile World in Drumheller for the first time. While I enjoyed my visit, I must admit I do wish the glass on the enclosures was significantly cleaner. As it was I didn’t take too many shots but felt I ought to share a few of what I did. I apologize about the tighter framing in most, the utilitarian décor wasn’t very inspiring so I tried to keep it out of the pictures.

All pictures were taken with a Nikon D50, 105mm f/2.8D and SB600 flash and there was no cropping.

Enjoy!

Well, the chances of them surviving an Alberta lake are just this side of nil.....although, they or the Nile perches could wreak absolute hell down in Florida. Make for some interesting fishing, though.

As if the fishing in Florida isn't interesting enough these days! What do you want to catch, Peacock Bass? Gar? Burmese Pythons? They got it all.

Does any one know where i can pick two up. I have to go away on vacation and i trust this more than my neighbors.

Most stores ought to carry them, I've heard the Eheim brand feeders often recommended. However they're quite pricey. If the vacation isn't overly long I would suggest just starving them for the period, or having your neighbor come in once or twice to dump a, pre-sized, portion of food into the tanks.

Lates calcarifer, AKA barramundi (yes, those barramundi), 2" ...possibly the first in Canada.

I look forward to seeing Northern Pike in the store next order.

Very nice, I love zoos and macro work. Could have used a hair more DOF though.

I'd guess a polar-bear in a snowstorm, but our background isn't white.

Your picture didn't attach mate'

I was just leafing through an issue the other day, the quality seems to have improved significantly from where it was just a year or two ago.

Nice picture, but try to restrict them to 800 pixels in width in the future.

Marine epoxy paint would work (it is what one uses to paint the inside of plywood tanks), but it ain't cheap.

I wouldn't recommend using it on Vinyl. Aquapon, which is one of the products most commonly used, can be quite harsh on plastics. It can eat through the plastic paint-trays to say the least.

I have an addenum to the article....these patterns seem to be completely useless against Polycentropsis ssp. leaf-fish in a 15 gallon tank for some unknown reason. -roll-

Similar research has shown that they prove ineffective against both gar and Polypterus species in a 75 gallon.

One 9" spotted gar

Anyone making a trip to Saskatoon in the near future?

thinking about a 20 inch smasher in his tank.

Yes please! I'll take two.

Nice pussy Kim!

All of the pictures were taken with my Canon A80, which I obviously need to practice with. LOL No commenting Sean!

Tsk,

I'm completely innocent and kind. Always!

I found this cute little jumping spider while I was BBQ'ing burgers for lunch.

Shots are 1:1, Nikon 105mm f/2.8 with natural light.

That's a huge understatement. Photos are used for all kinds of things. Wedding photography is one specific path, and so is portraits. There's aerial photography, product photography, industrial/commecial photography, stock photography, fashion photography, nature photography, insurance photography, crime scene photography

Of course there is. However, the demand is not particularly high and the payscale is often, as I stated, too low to be "paid reasonably". That was my only point.

Please limit the width of your pictures to 800 pixels in the future.

Photography, fishkeeping or both? Just wait till you get into Saltwater

Both really, though my approach to the aquarium hobby doesn't work as well with photography! Saltwater is something I’ll inevitably get into, if not only for the invertebrates. To be honest while beautiful most of the fish don’t interest me.

See dottyback,

See eel,

See Dunl feed eel,

See dottyback eat,

See eel angered,

Bye Bye dottyback

Goodnight eel.......

OMG!!!!!!!

I like it! Best childrens story since "Dick does Jane".