Favourite Fishy Photos

Another one!!

Very hard to get a decent picture of her as she is so small and can be damn quick when she wants!!!

FC

Lovely fish fishcake! Love the CPD photo! Whilst we had the platies at my work I discovered what lovely fish they are - so inquisitive and friendly... just pooping machines!

When I first got my fish I made this:



Unfortunately the only remaining fish I still have are Holly, Bob and Scutter. I now have three blonde endlers and one 'shocking pink' endler called Bow... oh and my random fish called Oz I got from the Aquajardin with my shrimp which I'm ashamed to admit in my worst act of fish keeping I plan on leaving in my tank!

I just witnessed one of my cherry shrimps attempting to ride my assassin snail James Bond too!

Great piccies. I've given up trying to get any pictures of mine - I'm totally rubbish at photography.

When I get a new SD card for my DSLR I will take some proper photos of my fish. Until then...

Lovely pics.
The monster fish in my photo is in the hot house pond in Roath park, Cardiff. There are several of them that size, I'd say about a foot and a half long. The kids love it in there.

Oooh, have they got a pond in Roath Park hothouse now? 40 years ago there wasn't one, just banana plants etc. I used to love it in there even without a pond! I was a student at what was then called University College, Cardiff in the 1970s and for 2 years lived in Ninian Rd not quite opposite the hothouse.

That's a lovely photo dbaggie!!  Discus are beautiful but my tanks are both too small - maybe in the next tank!!!!

My cories are peppered cories Diz (is it cories or corys???). There are so many types available. I was at the LFS today and saw some called Schwartz's Cories (corydoras schwartzi).  They are lovely but they get to 7cm which is too big for my tank. A good website to look at for cories on is planet catfish.

My visit to the LFS was interesting. I was planning to get some endlers but when I got there, there were about 7 dead fish in the bottom of the tank. I asked the chap how long they'd had them and he said about a week but he didn't know why they were dying.  I decided against them as they were £2.45 each and I wasn't going to spend £25 on fish that might die.

After scouring the tanks and sitting in the coffee shop to do some research I settled on 10 glowlight tetras and 2 otocinclus.  They are currently settling in to the quarantine tank but photos will follow!!!!!

Sadly, my CPD died overnight. I think the move to the big tank (and possibly the water change I did on Monday) was too much for her.

FC

Discus are beautiful but my tanks are both too small - maybe in the next tank!!!!

It's actually a male Dwarf Gourami, but I can see that the top-to-bottom stripes do resemble the pattern of some Discus  . They also stay quite a bit smaller than Discus.

I also managed to get a good shot of one of my male Dwarf Rainbows this afternoon (he seemed to be in a posing mood!):

Damn it!!!!  I knew I should have checked my assumption on the discus!!!!!! Lol!!!    Never mind!! Your dwarf rainbow is stunning and you're right - what a poser!!!

Looking forward to your pics Diz - you can guarantee that for every pic I post there are about 40 others that were rubbish!!!  I just love watching my fish so much and have now started keeping my camera in my hand whenever I do a spot of 'fishing'!!!!

FC
 

Just had a fun but frustrating ten mins trying to get a photo of any if my fish. Got some ok ish ones, but it's a good job I didn't make any effort to pursue a career as a wildlife photographer!
Oh and I can't upload them as iPad and cannon aren't compatible!