Time-laps Footage

[denis coghlan]

Very short time-laps video of one of my mbuna in a hospital tank moving substrate to form a cave over the course of eight hours.

Digger mbuna

 

[sparky_555]

Thats quite amazing

Do all Mbuna's dig or is this just a one off?

 

[raptorrex]

lol i'd get in touch with JCB with that vid. amazing

 

[denis coghlan]

They all do it! If you think that's bad you should see what 20 fish can do in a couple of hours. Some species of mbuna have a greater tendency to move substrate around than others. The fish in the picture is a female Metriaclima aurora, the male (in my main tank) is larger and has a bigger yap, so he is even more of a dozer than she is. I will try and do another clip of the "shifting sands" in my main tank.

Glad you liked the clip!

 

[mikster]

Great video, love to see more.

 

[sparky_555]

Do you move the sand back after they've moved it or do you just leave them to it?

I'll have to read up on cichlids, they sound like very interesting fish!

 

[paul_219]

Very nice. LOL

 

[denis coghlan]

Do you move the sand back after they've moved it or do you just leave them to it?

I would only move the sand back if i'm cleaning the substrate or I'm in a bad humour and want to annoy something! There wouldnt be much point doing it every day other than trying to keep the fish active.

 

[fishlette]

thats awesome id go nuts im a neat freak hehe

 

[caboose_122]

amazing video!

 

[demonmagus]

that video was awesome, looked like a real nature documentary lol

 

[geo7x]

wow thats amazing i love it!

how do you do that with your camera? is there a way you can set it or do you just put it on a tripod and press the button yourself ever X number of minutes?

 

[denis coghlan]

how do you do that with your camera?

I have my works research camera at the moment and it has the function of a time-laps video setting. Basically you just have to mount the camera on a tri pod, set the interval time that you want the picture to be taken at (5 mins in this case) and let the camera do the rest. It sets itself to standby between the intervals so it saves on batteries. For the one battery charge in can run for 4 days taking pictures at 5 min intervals, just as long as there is enough space on the memory card.

 

[steelhealr]

Excellent. As a mod, that is one of the most interesting and well done videos I've seen here. Thanks for sharing that with us. I learned from it. I put a link in our moderator section. Kudos. SH

 

[geo7x]

how do you do that with your camera?

I have my works research camera at the moment and it has the function of a time-laps video setting. Basically you just have to mount the camera on a tri pod, set the interval time that you want the picture to be taken at (5 mins in this case) and let the camera do the rest. It sets itself to standby between the intervals so it saves on batteries. For the one battery charge in can run for 4 days taking pictures at 5 min intervals, just as long as there is enough space on the memory card.

awesome, i completely agree with steelhealr

i think more of these time lapse videos could be really educational in alot of things to do with fishkeeping