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Nice fish alright. Is that female colouring permanent or breeding mode?

Pic 3 shows odontodes nicely alright- agree that it looks male Very nice

Thats the idea Caryl- Sems that is happening already, judging by the ever improving quality of photos in the comp. Ryan- 2. is 'copadichromis Azureus' but as with previous post i personally think you are 1/2 right. All else are spot on- I 'm eating your chocolate fish as I type.

That exactly what I've done, and I have black card around the tank as well so that might calm them. I left them for a few minutes to calm down but it is up to the individual fish at the end of the day. The young Jacob for instance was in full flare mode in his tank but had lost a lot by the time I shot him. I almost thought about putting another peacock in an adjacent tank to get them to flare-too much work A lot of them want to scoot around the bare bottom. Thought about putting in substrate but didn't want anything that might murk up the water. I was shooting at about F16 so was getting pretty good depth, but was shooting with macro so maybe a lens that I can pull beck a bit would be good, but I did want to get 'into' the fish. The thing I want the most is to get true colours as when in tank under tank light it is hard to shoot 100 iso so they can tend to contrast up and over saturate at higher speeds, and hard to pick out the eyes. In tank shot with tank lights in photo tank- although over bright from below from whit poly under tank So a bit of fine tuning needed. You're right about the painted black not given an even finish Barrie, but i dont have a problem in cleaning it up 'post' The 3rd fish is a Sajica young male- as Ryan has rightly noted in his guess game

I Painted the back of a small 20ltr tank matt black. I used one flash from above and one synced into first from the side, and a polarised lens to kill off any little reflections. The first lot I only had polystyrene undr tank which seemed to make lots of white bounce back from below, so put black towel over poly which helped. I probably would like to go bigger to give bigger fish a bit more free swimming space, but here are my first results.

I look at the red line with a hint of white along the top of dorsal and and tinge of blue in dorsal itself and a hint of red tinge in tip of anal fin. females will have the red line but not the same tinge to fin IMO. If they in a group of juvies the most dominant male might show himself with behaviour if you can watch for a moment or two. As I said above depending on environment you might find that getting more than one to colour up is difficult.

You can start to pick males out at 3-4cm but they can take an age to colour up. I recently took my 1M(14cm) out of tank with 4F(10cm), to find one female was in fact subdominant male, so speed of colouring up will really be environmental as much as anything else. I use a scotchbrite pad for that algae- glass tank though.

I agree- Cool Hybrid I just sampled Marks shot into ryans colour balance, Was half time at rugby- :oops:

Gidday and welcome! ( nice avatar) You haven't mentioned a heater which will be required for any tropical fish. You could throw in some Tetras tomorrow no worries. A tank that size will have limited stocking potential though.

They do enjoy being in groups. Hard on the pocket but good for the fish and the spectacle the group make in your tank.

Might pay to put your location in profile. By memory it's the same powerhead that they use in AR980 also. I know you can get them as parts. Maybe try this place. http://www.aquaone.net.nz/contactus.html

Well done Guys! I can even see the 'grassy knoll' in the Bkgrd

I willing to put my head on the block and say -Hybrid I almost can see venustus in there. Depth of head, shape of mouth and profile of body looks wrong for Fryeri

There were Fryeri X coming out of the Nth shore a while ago. Saw some and had mixed colour blaze like that. Guy told me they were a yellow baze variety? Crossed with litho my guess

I wouldn't recommend this practice to inexperienced fishkeepers. Also note that this is done with plecs which can happily be taken out of water for a minute or two, but there are particular ways to hold them whilst doing so. I wouldn't suggest anyone try this method with their favourite tetra.

I agree. In this case I am using Fryeri as a likely contender. Your suggestion of Lithobates is indeed a distinct possibility. Would the resulting ambiguity as you've stated in the 2nd sentence not then have some bearing on your results indicated in last sentence So are the shots of my fish then enough to lead you to state that my fish are C.Azureus Once again, thanks for heads up. Following those points were the reason for thread in first place. 10 Marlin in the gear. 4 hooked up 1 taken- 99.2kg 1 tagged-est 110kg 1 Mako-tagged-est 80kg

That is a nice setup you have there, and your stocklist is a great mix I think. Perhaps keyholes could be omitted for the sake of dwarves. Have a look at angelicus loach also. It is my fav. But yes agree minimum of 3or 4 to get best from loaches 'Babyfish' has some really nice choc zebs at good size for sale at moment.

Sold as a job lot complete with my neurosis' #3 & #4- L25 scarlet pleco

Cheers! P. This one is interesting and same fish in water. Eye almost goes bluish. Must be L137 :-?

few more

got out the camera.

enough numbers to ensure that with good breeding programs they should be available in the future. L129- never seen this one here. L270 is closest in patterning but L129 are way smaller

Driving to tutakaka. Boys got 7 stripeys today. Hope like that tomorrow

Hell Nav, Well done I started reading Marks post 9am and still only at "within localities" .