First try with new digicam...

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This is Moby, my 2 year old lutino oscar. Moby is 10.5 inches long and doesn't seem to be getting any longer.

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This is Doofus. I don't know how old it is as I got it a couple months ago from someone who had it in a 29 gallon. Since then it has put on 3" of growth, so I don't think it's stunted. Doofus is now 8.5".

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This is my 2 year old 7" female Jack Dempsey. I personally think she has some of the best coloration I've ever seen on a JD.

The above fish reside in a 100 gallon tank (72" X 18" X 18") with two Filstar XP3's, a Fluval 404, and a Aquaclear 500. Weekly 30% water changes, and the nitrAtes don't push 30ppm. Amonia and nitrate are nill. PH is a steady 7.0. There is also a 2 year old firemouth (5.5") and a 1.5 year old pleco.

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This is my male pink convict (4")

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This is my female bristlenose pleco (4")

They reside in a 29 gallon with a female convict (3") without a tail and a 5.5" male bristlenose pleco (I haven't gotten any good pics of them yet). The convicts breed every two weeks, and right now I have 50 or so 3/8" babies, pink and normal coloration.

[optix]

Very nice pics and fish.

[jimbo]

Great pictures WOW!!

That J.D. looks great.
Something to look at for Mr.Jingles and Vilhelm.

[mogurnda]

Great fish, great pix. Thanks for posting!

[Molino]

Great looking fish, and good pics as well. Thanks for sharing.

[kveeti]

Your first try with the new camera? Wow. You must be one of them quick learners (unlike me). Great-looking fish, lovely colours!

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Well, I actually took about 130 pics and these were the ones that turned out well.

[jimbo]

That's one of the advantages having a digital camera.

[peifc]

I think I took more than 130 something pictures on my fish, but none of them look at as good as yours. My fish never stay on one spot. Or they are way too camera shy. Everytime they see me with a camera...they either hide behind a plant or just pass my camera like a flash just to get to the other side to avoid me.

My Green Severum is curious about the camera, but heck, every time he sees that red flash going on (flashing when taking picture), he durks away. $%$@%$^@# :P

I guess I just have to learn to be patient when taking pictures.

Yeah...you are so right, jimbo. Thank goodness it is digital cam. I'm not wasting 1000 of films. Hehehe....

[dcallen]

Hi,

Wow those are very nice looking fish and great pics too especially for your first time, I wish I could produce pics that nice. That JD is absolutely gorgeous, I don't recall seeing one that nice before. Thanks for sharing those pics, and please post more when you get the chance. :D

[125gJoe]

Nice pics and healthy fish! :)

[dbcb314]

nice pics, what size tank do you keep them in?


i wish i had a digital camera...

[DarthV]

Love the fish... oscars remind me of puppy dogs :) And great coloring on that female dempsey!

[1 fish 2 fish]

Originally posted by dbcb314
nice pics, what size tank do you keep them in?


i wish i had a digital camera...


I'm with ya...

[Ender]

I just went and bought a couple Jack's for my tank and I am trying to learn more about them then I knew before. When I came across your pics. I have the same big fish, albino oscar, tiger oscar, and a jack. Although mine are still pretty young, about 7 months for the oscars and just a recent addition of the jack. Actually the Jack is in a separate tank right now, I wanted to ask how compatible Jacks are with catfish cause that is what I have in my main tank. 6 cories, albino pleco, and the one I really don't want to get beat up a 8" royal pleco. The oscars don't seem to bother the catfish although they are not very old yet. Thanks....and nice pics!!!

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Thanks all for the nice comments!

Ender (Orson Scott Card's book Ender?) - my JD has never harrassed my pleco, in fact they reside in a clay pot cave together. The cory cats will get eaten when the oscar and JD get larger, which isn't good considering the corys have an extendable spine below their spine that causes them to become lodged in the throat of larger fish, and both fish end up dying.

I got off my butt and took a few more pics of my JD. Hope you like them!

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Now if I could just get rid of the white eye...

[Ender]

Yep that Ender, love what I've read so far...still working on all the books. Figured as much about the cories....just wanted to hear it I guess, I've had them so long I don't want them in anything but my main tank....ahh well....they'll be okay in the 30 gal.


And about the *whiteeye*......don't use your flash, I know it brings out the color in the Jack, but just try to bring in all the lights you have around your house or maybe have a friends shine somekind of spotlight at the tank so you can get at an angle where the color will still come out and the whiteeye doesn' t happen. May take some time...but thats the fun with photography!!!!

Liking the pics anyway...wonderful Jack.....

[Frameshift]

I liked all the books by Card except Speaker for the Dead. Couldn't stand that book. Wierd little pig guys that turn into trees...

If I don't use the flash my camera compesates and leaves the shudder open longer, so I only get a blured fish. I haven't figured out all the manual settings yet. I'm still working on this digital camera thing....

[peifc]

I don't know how your digital cam is like. I have a canon. What I did was have the canopy light on, but make sure that my cam flash light is off. Then I have my (flower icon) focus on. The picture comes out beautifully...without the cateyes and blur.

Check your camera to see if you have the extra clear/focus icon. That usually takes out any blur you have. I know many digital cams have that.

[Frameshift]

Thanks, will try it.