My 55 Gallon Malawi mbuna Photo shoot! (Picture Heavy Thread!)

[Cichlidsanders]

This is what happens when they cut my hours back at work and give me all this free time!

I rearrange my tanks layout!

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12571.jpg

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12572.jpg

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12593.jpg

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12588.jpg

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12522.jpg

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12536.jpg

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12537.jpg

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12562.jpg

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12548.jpg

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12525.jpg

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12517.jpg

The longest Electric yellow EVER!:ROFL:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12527.jpg

[HarlanAshmore]

that is a long electric yellow awesome pics

[Pittbull]

Nice..

[Hap3niz]

awesome..

what kind of camera did you use??

and.. i wish they would've cut my hours at work...
they laid me off.. when they closed down... stupid circuit city

[Cichlidsanders]

awesome..

what kind of camera did you use??

and.. i wish they would've cut my hours at work...
they laid me off.. when they closed down... stupid circuit city

Sorry to hear about your job. :irked:
Dang Circuit City!


My camera is a Samsung NV10 (http://www.samsungcamera.com/product/pro_view.asp?prol_uid=1621&cat_uid=75) (and it sucks)

I have set it up to take pictures like this, but it took close to a thousand shots to get it setup right, but even after all of that not all of the pictures turn out right.

see
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12514.jpg

Plus the darn this just doesn't even work some times.

Its only a month old and I am already looking for a better camera!


Here is one more of the "Good Ones"
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12614.jpg

Out of the 50+ pictures I took of my aquarium today only about 13 turned out somewhat worthy! the rest look like the blurry one above!

[cudatim68]

See if your camera has a Macro setting. I could never get clear pictures of my africans....they were always blurry. I started using the Macro setting and they come out great now, plus sometimes i use the tripod off my mini spotting scope because i shake real bad.

Beautiful tank, love the foot long yellow lab. LOL :)

[Marius]

Keep trying, you'll get it in the end :) ...keep those pictures coming.

[MalawiTango]

sweet tank!

[Cichlidsanders]

Keep trying, you'll get it in the end :) ...keep those pictures coming.

I do keep trying I just need a new camera because when I turn mine on its lens comes out about 1/3 of the way then it gets stuck or something and I have to restart the camera and bang it on something to get it unstuck.



sweet tank!
Thank you!

[greenearthlawns]

sweet pics! what kind of fish is the second to last? before the longest electic yellow...

[Cichlidsanders]

sweet pics! what kind of fish is the second to last? before the longest electic yellow...

That is a juvenile male Kenyi who is just starting to turn his adult colors.
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Kevinsand/SNC12517.jpg


I know they are supposedly more aggressive, and I should not have kenyi in my tank with electric yellows, but all my electric yellows chase him around the tank more than he chases them, and that is not very often.

I had the kenyi in a 45 gallon but it has a slow leak in it somewhere so I but them back into my 55 gallon tank and they seem happier.

[Cichlidsanders]

See if your camera has a Macro setting. I could never get clear pictures of my africans....they were always blurry. I started using the Macro setting and they come out great now, plus sometimes i use the tripod off my mini spotting scope because i shake real bad.

Beautiful tank, love the foot long yellow lab. LOL :)

I am aware of macro I have been using macro since my old 35mm camera, but that is not the problem with this camera!

I wish it was only that! :(

[Hap3niz]

oh, ok.. i'd stick with a canon! lol.. i use to sell them and i loved them =(

and yeah, i hate circuit city! lol

[Cichlidsanders]

Im going to my "Local":ROFL:fish store tomorrow to see if they have any lace rock or holy rock.

After seeing all of the pictures here @ MFK I decided that I love the look of it!

Pictures soon to follow so wish me luck as my LFS is 70+ miles away, and I don't have a clue if they even have anything that I am looking for.

I do know that they carry some larger rock for aquariums as well as the huge fake ship wrecks but I don't know about there stock of lace or holy rock.

[mssassysan2000]

Sweet tank those yellow labs are not camera shy are they.:ROFL: