The plants are bacopa, cabomba, dwaf hairgrass, vals and hornwort.
I need to find that photo tip thread, because my photos look like crap.
Here's the longear
180 gallon N. Texas
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Posted 04 February 2009 - 02:59 PM
Current inhabitants, 3 orangethroats (1 male, 2 female), 3 starhead topminnows, 1 swamp darter, 1 longear sunfish, 4 dollar sunfish, 2 p. vigilax, 2 tadpole madtoms
The plants are bacopa, cabomba, dwaf hairgrass, vals and hornwort.
I need to find that photo tip thread, because my photos look like crap.
Here's the longear
The plants are bacopa, cabomba, dwaf hairgrass, vals and hornwort.
I need to find that photo tip thread, because my photos look like crap.
Here's the longear
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Posted 04 February 2009 - 03:10 PM
Great tank! Your photos aren't so bad. It helps to wipe the glass clean before taking pictures. If you use a point & shoot camera, it can focus on water spots and wreck the shot.
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Posted 04 February 2009 - 03:47 PM
Very nice. How about a full tank shot. I am kicking around the idea of a 125 or 180 and haven't seen many full tank 180 shots.
Andy
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Posted 04 February 2009 - 04:41 PM
Very nice. How about a full tank shot. I am kicking around the idea of a 125 or 180 and haven't seen many full tank 180 shots.
Andy
All the full tank shots I took looked terrible. I'll try again when I go up there tomorrow.
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 11:30 AM
I'm a big fan of the P. vigilax. You've got a really big one in those shots, I've never seen them that big...good stuff.
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 05:08 PM
I'm a big fan of the P. vigilax. You've got a really big one in those shots, I've never seen them that big...good stuff.
They're very interesting fish. I never would have thought I would have so much fun with a fish related to the humble rosy red.
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 05:38 PM
It looks like you have a layered substrate. What are the layers comprised of?
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Posted 07 February 2009 - 04:15 AM
It looks like you have a layered substrate. What are the layers comprised of?
The bottom layer is leaves, then about 180 pounds of topsoil, then 1mm quartz gravel. I have to admit, I was a little freaked out about it because this was my first soil substrate, and it's a tank in my dad's lobby. It's turned out pretty well overall. I'll try to take some better full tank shots than I've gotten previously to give a better idea.
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Posted 07 February 2009 - 11:41 AM
this may help you with your pics.
Clean the glass as was mentioned already, even if you cant see the spots yourself they will show up in the pics, so wipe it down before any photo shoot, take pics with the camera slightly tilted down, and with point and shoot it just takes patience, out of 30 pics I usually find 2 or 3 usable but I also use a point and shoot, oh another way is to not zoom in on the fish. Take a pic at a normal focused distance with the fish being the main item then crop the pic down, this will give you a close up effect on the fish without as much distortion.
Anyway great looking tank.
Clean the glass as was mentioned already, even if you cant see the spots yourself they will show up in the pics, so wipe it down before any photo shoot, take pics with the camera slightly tilted down, and with point and shoot it just takes patience, out of 30 pics I usually find 2 or 3 usable but I also use a point and shoot, oh another way is to not zoom in on the fish. Take a pic at a normal focused distance with the fish being the main item then crop the pic down, this will give you a close up effect on the fish without as much distortion.
Anyway great looking tank.
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