Fry Feeding time ****UPDATED****

[brewmaster15]

Spent some time this am taking pics of one of my pairs with Fry. I never get tired of watching fry on their parents, it really never gets old. Heres a few of them eating baby brine shrimp.

Comments welcome...

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al

[thomaswal]

Nice!
They'd make great posters
The first picture of the couple where they look away from each other is really family-like. If there was slightly more room under the fish, it would have been my favorite!
The composition of the 3rd is my favorite with the fry going towards their... Father?

I guess that the only lighting you used was a flash, which was put on top of the water, pointing downwards. The white bottom of the tank also gives a nice diffuse illumination to the fish!
How did you manage to get a black background? Do you paint your tanks in black?
And finally... You don't see any reflection of the fish in the background glass?

All this being said, thanks a lot for sharing these beautiful photos!

PS: next time, could you try to show us the overall setup? (a simple picture of the tank from far away with the camera, flash etc)

Thanks again!

[brewmaster15]

Thanks Thomas,

I used the same set up I describe here...
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...sh-Photo-Guide
The only difference is I used a different camera body. This set was a pentax K3.

The black background is a pieces of black acrylic I slide into the tank.I dull the shine on the acrylic with sandpaper.

The male has the bright red eyes.

I did have a small strip led light on it to aid in focus and overall lighting... then used the flash.

I have many more shots that I need to process before the addition of the baby brine shrimp.

thanks again.
Al

[0Dgreen]

Al, that is a stunning pair, wow!
German or Asian fish?

[brewmaster15]

Thanks Mike...Second Generation Asian. I got those as fry from my friend Steve Aka Rogue Discus. He got the parent stock from Kennys Discus.
al

[0Dgreen]

Thanks Mike...Second Generation Asian. I got those as fry from my friend Steve Aka Rogue Discus. He got the parent stock from Kennys Discus.
al

They look great, great shape and patterns I especially like the facial markings on the male.

[brady]

Hi Al
Got to ask the question. Are you going to be selling them
and if so when?
As an added incentive I will bring down a bottle of my wine.LOL
Jay

[brewmaster15]

Lol..Jay . Not sure what will happen with these guys.Summers are my worst time for raising fry. Im not home all the time to raise them. This group I am trying hard though.They are really perfect little guys and mom and dad have been awesome.Let you know.

al

[sanjay21]

What stunning pictures Al ! you have some skills with the camera. Beautiful pair !

[danotaylor]

Wow Al those pics are amazing and the pair are exceptional. Beautiful shape and color. TFS!!

[zhuls1]

Brilliant pic Al, my first thought when I saw the pic was that you photo shopped them onto a background of a starry night sky LOL, took a second to realise that those "stars" were actually BBS.

[danotaylor]

What strain are the adult pair Al?

[brewmaster15]

Thank you guys.

Danny,
These are fine line blue snakeskins.

al

[brewmaster15]

Well fry so far are doing great. Mom and Dad had to.be separated as the fry were eating a bit too much of their slime coat. Dad was ok but mom was definitely getting the raw end of the deal. I moved the fry to a 55 gal for now.


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Its going to get challenging now to raise this batch. I have a real busy schedule this month.. but I will try a few things to keep them going well. They are really doing seriously well at this point.

al

[Adam S]

The "bbs stage" is my favorite part of raising fish. Nothing like watching them turn into little orange balloons.

How much bbs does a spawn like that go through in a day?