today

Made chili and now I'm jamming on some Flamenco and playing with painting photos... can't understand a word in this tune - don't care - it sounds good.

I am senile, forgive me...31 going on 80 apparently. I have test results, please pm me!

Have a great day jthefishguy and rsanz

Minifoot77 stopped by my work a few minutes ago and joined up for the year. Welcome to the club.

HoHum... It's quiet in here today...

First Osprey showed up a Eastneck Isaland today. I got this one after I jumped out of my van and spooked it off a perch as it was eating. Then I drove up to the dam and caught this eagle fishin'.

Paratheraps Breidohri male sporting a nice nuchal hump: The pair are breeding regularly in a large pot toward the back of the tank. They alternate going back and forth to their breeding spot. Here's the female and the male: Update on the Media Luna Yellow Labridens fy. Currently...

I have been asked often for full tank shots. The physical dimensions of the firshroom make it difficult to get a good shot. That said, here's one of the 300 gallon tanks with the Giant Gouramy (beasts) and the Synspilum (beauties). I am giving these to a friend this weeked, so I thought I...

I don't often get as excited as I am with this batch of photos. The Honduran Managuense are breeding yet again. This time around I allowed access to the female. She visited for a few hours and laid eggs that night. She generally hides the wiggler in the far corner until they are free...

What a difference a few years makes. Here's the male in August '05: Today:

F0 Blue Labridens Male from Taninul Springs: F0 Male Managuense. The pair is breeding once again. I changed things up a bit. Up until now the female and male were never on the same side of the divider. I just recently cut a "love door" for the female to visit the male. Within 24 hours...

I am really enjoying having this fish. The colors are simply beautiful. Here's the breeding male. The back half of the female. And the back half of the male. One of four Synspilum in the 300 gallon tank with the Gourami. If you have followed my posts you might remember the...

Quick video os momma Labridens with her fry. I removed 90% of the fry and moved the to a 75 gallon grow out tank. Here's the female Labridens with fry.

I've been working overtime photographing momma and fry...photo and video. I got some excellent footage of mom interacting with the fry which I will post when I get a chance to edit it down. Very cool stuff. Believe it or not...the fry are all in the gravel. Mom's surveying the brood...

So I win the lottery this past weekend...really...I did. How can it get much better? This... Totally caught me by surprise. She was in this pot all week. I looked for eggs and didn't see anything. Ends up she had wigglers in there the entire time. There was a period of time there...

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The F0 Managuense from La Cieba, Honduras are breeding again. When that happens they not only color up well, but are extrememly easy to photograph. Here's the male at 9"....completely psychotic: The female is not happy to have me poking my lens at the glass either: Momma and fry...

For those who don't know, Jumbo's father was a regular morph managuense...his mother was gold. You can't pick it up well on photo but at the base of the rear of his pelvic fins their is a band of color that looks like 24 carat gold. Really cool. I have to concentrate on photographing that...

Gosh, not to steal a theme, but............ Ron's laid up with a nasty cough, and since I don't have any Wii competition, I stole his camera & tried some fish shots. Yes, we do have razor blades for the tanks. Regretably, nobody here allows me to play with razors and sharp objects anymore...

I noticed through observation that some of the fish will respond predictably under certain conditions. This works particularly well when I am trying to get one shot or another. With the Pearsei I have found that if I photograph in the morning just prior to feeding she gets more...