My 5ft Tank

[Ava_Banana]

I have been playing round with the camera, yet still can't seem to get the lighting right ............ or get the fish to stay still...

...I'll post some more when I get it sorted.


Anyway...this is my 5ft x 18" x 20" tank.

Stocked with:

1 x Oscar

6 x Silver Dollars

3 x Clown Loaches

1 x Leopard Plec

Better pictures will follow one day

 

[invader]

Very nice and simple. Those colors on your oscar remind me of mine I had a long time ago.

 

[shroob]

One of the nicest stockings I've seen in a while.

 

[Straydum]

looks good you still have space for more fish

 

[Ava_Banana]

One of the nicest stockings I've seen in a while.

Thanks Shroob....as the Clowns are so slow growing I will keep my eye out for a couple more.... I don't want to go out and buy some, but I will see if I can re-home a couple.


I really like the Silver Dollars too...they have grown nice and big....and their damage-regrowth rate is astounding. I had one that got itself trapped behind the heater....the burn't flesh really was pretty drastic....then the Oscar took advantage of the hanging flesh...it wasn't a pretty sight and you could see the bones!! it was on the verge of being euthenased.

But astoundingly it has grown back....really, really surprised....it is still a hefty scar covering around a quarter of one side of the fish, but almost day by day it is dissapearing. I wish I had taken pictures after it had first happened.

We did have two Oscars.....two brothers....one just never grew......(we've had them around 5 months)......they used to be best buddies....until the one that did grow decided that the one that didn't might fit in his mouth.....came down one morning to find his back half hanging out of his mouth......so now we only have this big boy.

I don't want to over do it with the fish....I quite like the few larger examples.....

Although suggestions for 1 more specimen are always welcome (although I doubt the Oscar would make one very welcome).

 

[paul_219]

Very nice tank. I liked the oscar its looking gr8.

 

[Ava_Banana]

Very nice tank. I liked the oscar its looking gr8.

Thanks....as I said..I will try to get some better pictures tonight.....just got to play around with the settings on the camera.

 

[DarkEntity]

A Tripod will help get in focus images. If you havent got one, improvise....use a table, chair back, something to support the camerae while shooting.

 

[Ava_Banana]

Haha.....thanks....I've just been reading the sticky on how best to take fishy-pics

I'll have a look at my white-balance....and try to use the flash but shroud it so it isn't too bright...

That's the beauty of digital cameras....you can take lots of pics just to try to get a good one.

 

[guppy_man]

Nice tank!, those pieces of wood must of cost a bomb

 

[cane76]

very nice set up

 

[Ava_Banana]

Nice tank!, those pieces of wood must of cost a bomb

I love the wood too.....

...the large piece on the far left I got from The-Wolf on here....I picked up a fish tank off him and the wood was a very large heavy piece that he let me have for a very reduced price

All the other pieces of wood came with the tank...........and the tank ..........was FREE!

It was in a house a few towns from where I live....the man who it belonged to had died....and his wife (at least 2 years later) just wanted to get rid of the tank.....but people were trying to charge her to take it away.

I stepped in....it was in a bit of a state...all filters had burnt out....etc, etc, and all this wood was buried in the silt and pea gravel substrate.....I had to soak the wood for a week, hose it brush it........but it all came good in the end.

 

[england]

that looks like a nice peaceful tank...beautiful

 

[8inary]

I think the best way to shoot fish if you have a digicam, is to turn your room's lights off and use your camera's flash but shoot at an angle so not to get flash bounce back. You may only get 1 in 10 shots but you will soon build it up.

As with digital photography, shooting the pics is merely one aspect, post production can come into it's own. The software you can get nowadays such as CS3 allows you to do so much more than you used to be able to do.

I am not quite sure how to post pics yet as I am a newbie to this forum

 

[invader]

I think the best way to shoot fish if you have a digicam, is to turn your room's lights off and use your camera's flash but shoot at an angle so not to get flash bounce back. You may only get 1 in 10 shots but you will soon build it up.

As with digital photography, shooting the pics is merely one aspect, post production can come into it's own. The software you can get nowadays such as CS3 allows you to do so much more than you used to be able to do.

I am not quite sure how to post pics yet as I am a newbie to this forum

The only thing I don't agree with in this statement is the use of the flash. The flash seems to wash out the colors on the fish and if you are patient enough (and your camera fast enough), you should be able to take really nice pics of fish w/o the flash.