May Photo Contest - Fish

[FragOutpost]

Show off your best fish photos and win a prize!

Contest Category - Fish

Prize - 4.5" Stainless Steel Fine Point Bone Cutters

Rules


Entries must be submitted in this thread before May 13, 2005.
On May 13 all contest entries will be placed in a poll where users will have until May 20 to vote for the winner. The one who receives the most votes wins.
Photo entries should not have won any other contests.

[ClarkiiClown]

Here is my Entry-

Yashia Goby

[FragOutpost]

Awesome Pic! I really like that fish. :)

[D12monkey]

What you looking at? You messing with me?

[FragOutpost]

Great Shot!

He looks pretty mean. :)
Ever been stung by it?

[D12monkey]

I have two of em and No I haven't. Might take some update picture of my FOWLR and post pictures of both. :D

[ClarkiiClown]

I would be in trouble if I got stung by one.

Thanks frag- he is my favorite.

[D12monkey]

They're not as bad as people make them out to be. I have 2 the one in the picture and a rare true black volitan Lion <--- Really beautyful. I think for june we should take pictures of invertabrates for the contest. If so can I enter my G. tessalatus? :p

[FragOutpost]

I have heard stories about people cleaning their tank and startling a lion and having it prick them. Just curious if it has ever happend to you.

[FragOutpost]

Unless someone has another recommendation, then invertebrates it is for the June photo contest.
Although, I've seen some pics of your star that would win just about any photo contest. :D

[D12monkey]

Then it wouldn't be vary fair to put it up on the contest huh? :D

[lwhite2]

I know this is a simple fish compared to the others in the contest but he's my favorite. I think the blue chromis accents him very well.

[lwhite2]

Sorry Im still figuring out the parameters for photos. Hope this is better.

[FragOutpost]

Thanks for entering the photo contest.

That's a nice wrasse. How aggressive it it? Does it bully your chromis at all?

[PatrickJ]

I have a large collection of pictures of this couple. I see them trying to spawn every day.

They <3 each other.

http://www.fragoutpost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=204&stc=1

[FragOutpost]

Welcome to the Frag Outpost Forums PatrickJ.
Wow. A pair of mandarins attempting to spawn in an aquarium. That must be great to watch. Nice photo. Thanks for entering the photo contest.

[D12monkey]

Patrickj: Have you had any luck trying to raise they fry?

[PatrickJ]

Patrickj: Have you had any luck trying to raise they fry?


No, to my understanding they have a planktonic stage where they float along with everything else in the ocean, feeding on micro plankton and micro planktonic crustations. Also they would get sucked up into the protien skimmer.

Raising just 1 baby would be a challenge and best left up to mother nature.


Despite that it's nearly impossiable in captivity, i thought about setting up a huge shallow bin (like 600 gallons) of live rock and full cheatmorpha out in a sun room. With no skimmer. I am sure I would get something out of it.

[D12monkey]

Actually they are not planktonic. There is a gentleman in another forum that has had some success in breeding the fry. He's kept the fry alive for 2 weeks after hatching. But hasn't had success in keeping it longer. :D

[FragOutpost]

Great thread so far. It is not even May yet and we already have 4 entries. Keep those photos coming.

[PatrickJ]

Actually they are not planktonic. There is a gentleman in another forum that has had some success in breeding the fry. He's kept the fry alive for 2 weeks after hatching. But hasn't had success in keeping it longer. :D


Really, I talked to this teacher at my school, who is a Marine Biologist/15 Year Reefer, who said that it is a planktonic form. Maybe my teacher is wrong...Or maybe it was the way i digested the information.

Maybe he ment the fry feed on planktonic foods. Which would explain why the fellow you know was not able to keep them any longer than two weeks, because planktonic food is not readily available in a closed system. They very well might have starved.

Never the less, breeding them in my tank is unlikely, with carnivorous corals and fishes that would mistake it for a small shrimp.

[avbryce1]

my yellow whatchman goby

[D12monkey]

Really, I talked to this teacher at my school, who is a Marine Biologist/15 Year Reefer, who said that it is a planktonic form. Maybe my teacher is wrong...Or maybe it was the way i digested the information.

Maybe he ment the fry feed on planktonic foods. Which would explain why the fellow you know was not able to keep them any longer than two weeks, because planktonic food is not readily available in a closed system. They very well might have starved.

Never the less, breeding them in my tank is unlikely, with carnivorous corals and fishes that would mistake it for a small shrimp.


I don't think he has much of a problem with cultivating planktons in his system Being that he has over 1000 Gals total water volume.

[PatrickJ]

I don't think he has much of a problem with cultivating planktons in his system Being that he has over 1000 Gals total water volume.

Why no surviving fry? Enigmatic Mandarins...

[lwhite2]

OOoohhhhh Aaaahhh! I like the yellow watchman. I had a sailfin shrimp goby who died misteriously anyone have trouble with them? Or hints for keeing them alive?

[D12monkey]

Don't know why? He's trying to figure it out.

[FragOutpost]

Awesome yellow watchman goby shot! :cool:

lwhite2 - Never kept a sailfin shrimp goby before. Although I'd really like to get a shrimp goby, preferably a yashi, paired with a pistol shrimp one day.

[D12monkey]

:p we allowed multiple entries??? :D

[FragOutpost]

Wow! I've never seen a black lion before. I've been wondering when you were going to post some pics. Awesome fish. Great angle.

[D12monkey]

As you can see I'm starting to figure out the camera. :D

Going to start another tread one of only marco pics. I think that'll be :cool: .

[avbryce1]

sweet pic of that black lion

[D12monkey]

tanks :D

[FragOutpost]

This month's photo contest has had some great entries.
Only a week left to post your entries. You can't win if you don't enter!
Thanks to everyone who has entered so far.

[FragOutpost]

Entries are no longer being accepted. Thanks to everyone who entered.

You can vote here (http://www.fragoutpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109).