My male Apistogramma agassizi

[mike the zealot]

Got him about a year ago from the world famous Dave Soares ( his site )

He's the red tail variety, and these are actually not the best colors I've seen him in. I think he's bewildered because I just yanked out all the overgrown java moss in the tank, will be replanting soon with some more interesting species.

 

[mike the zealot]

looks like caca with my ghetto photgrapher skillz =(

leopardess, give me pointers =)

 

[Cichlid-Man]

NICE nonethe less

 

[mike the zealot]

matt, right?

I looked at your gallery at corydorasworld... I'm impressed by the quality of your photos. Got any suggestions?

I used a pretty new olympus for my pics. I waited til night, turned off all lights, and used a broom as a tripod haha. I turned the shutter speed as far down as it would go, turned off the flash, and used the macro setting... still looks like crap =/

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Yes matt

Basically i take my Sony Cybershot (not the best when it comes to shots like this) get right up to the glass (after its been cleaned), set it on macro mode and snap about 100+ pics. I then weed out then ones i don't like lol. I also turn flash off, room lights off, tank lights on. I basically play around and take hundreds of shots until i get some i like. The fish have to work with you too

I think that pic above would be great lighting wise, just work on the focus.

Thanks for the compliment on the pics though.

 

[mamba]

i always wondered how you guys do that i run a concord 3042 AF 3 megapixel digi cam and so far i couldnt get some nice shots. they always come out blurry or unable to see to well even at 3 megapixel setting... would the same rules apply to me ?

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Well mine arn't nearly as good as the guys like Verse and Blair. Their's is amazing!!!

I'm gonna suggest y'all visit this site. Very good for aquarium photography.

http://www.aquatic-photography.com/

I wish i could direct everyone a little more but i am just now learning myself, and some things are hard for me to explain and such. So i'll leave that up to the pros .

 

[Avalon]

Awesome fish! I loved my A. agassizzi's. I think you have the triple red variety. I had the double reds. Are you breeding them?

 

[mike the zealot]

I will be, I'm gonna work on getting the tank planted first, then I'll hit dave up for some females from different lines if hes got any. otherwise it may be awhile locating females.

I've got 2 10W PCs on the tank right now... everything died that I planted before except the java fern and moss. THink Im gonna throw down a sand/shultz substrate and try again with CO2.

thanks for the tips matt =)

 

[mamba]

thanks cichlid man im definatley going to be visiting that site alot too now lol