My Melanotaenia Lacustris

[drobbyb]

Was taking pics of my fish tonight and thought I'd share them with you all. Tonight, featured are my Melanotaenia Lacustris (Lake Kutubu, Turquoise, and Blue rainbowfish by common name.)

Without further ado:

And finally a female.

 

[trojannemo]

nice
i thought you had said on an earlier post that they were getting more blue? is it my monitor or these guys look super green?
your male looks like a younger version of mine you saw earlier today or something.
how old would you say they are?

 

[blodhi74]

Beautiful fish.

 

[minxfishy]

Love these fish, top of my list for new tank beginning of the year, cant wait, plan on those, some praecox and if I can find any, some banded rainbows, nice big 110g tank with cories for the bottom

Lovely pics drobby

 

[drobbyb]

Thanks

They are more blue in person and more blue at other times in the day. The flash washes out the blue somewhat. I need to make a video so that I can show how they truly look. I just need to get some sort of dvd ripping software so I can get the video on my computer.

 

[Colin_T]

Is it my imagination or do they have somehting on their eyes, at the bottom of the eye it looks a little funny?

 

[drobbyb]

I'm not sure. I haven't seen anything funny on them. I just got up close to get a better view and I can't find anything. Maybe it's the flash?

how old would you say they are?

About 7 months.

 

[paul_219]

Lovely fish. Very nice color.

 

[drobbyb]

Made a video of these guys tryign to show how blue they really are. It can be found in this post here: http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=264992

 

[ccskitten]

Hiya

I have a couple of these rainbows. Mine change colour all of the time. In the mornings before my light comes on my big male's nose goes bright yellow. It stays like that for about 5 minutes and then just flashes yellow when he is beening chased! Earlier I was transfering my fish to my new tank and his nose was bright red. I don't think he was very happy!

They are very interesting to watch. I love them.

Cindy

 

[Colin_T]

The yellow stripe on the male's snout is a breeding stripe. All male rainbowfish produce one and it can vary in colour depending on species. They use it to show off to the girls

 

[ccskitten]

Hey hey, so when the lights go out he's getting frisky!!!! What a stud!

 

[Colin_T]

it's not so much when the lights go out, but first thing in the morning that they feel frisky

 

[drobbyb]

The yellow stripe on the male's snout is a breeding stripe. All male rainbowfish produce one and it can vary in colour depending on species. They use it to show off to the girls

That's actually not true. My M. Duboulayi have no breeding stripe. Female Lacustris have a stripe too but is only seen while they are depositing eggs.

 

[bobross]

I just need to get some sort of dvd ripping software so I can get the video on my computer.



If you have a video on dvd, can't you just drag the video from the dvd into a folder on your hard drive?


BobRoss