Today In The Fishroom~8/27/10 The Pleco Project

[Aquamojo]

A friend of mine asked me to photograph fish for their company. I received two boxes of Cory Cats (Urusgua?), L-49, long finned albino ancistrus, long fin chocolate ancistrus, and a bunch of other weird looking pleco and ancistrus.

This is my beast...the 14" cichlid killer. I took one shot of him tonight just to kick start the thread.

I am going to let the fish settle in over the weekend then start photographing them one at a time. I will update this thread as I get the photos.

 

[Adhlc]

Beautiful shot. Gibbiceps plecos are one of my favorites.

 

[manlyfish]

you make me look bad... good job

 

[Hoyo12]

Beautiful shot!
Can't wait for the others.

 

[peewee]

nice shot!

 

[headbanger_jib]

you make me look bad... good job

Mo makes half the photographing community look bad

i am interested in the other plecos, come on Mo at least give out the names of what all u snap up, do u get to keep them after the photo session ??

 

[Aquamojo]

Mo makes half the photographing community look bad

i am interested in the other plecos, come on Mo at least give out the names of what all u snap up, do u get to keep them after the photo session ??

I labeled what I remember in the beginning of the post. I would have to look at the bags ans get the rest. I did this before with the African cichlids. I gave those to a local Children's Cancer Hospital for a fish tank int the reception area. Likely will end up keeping some of what I have and giving the rest to a local pet store. In my tanks they're just feeders.

Thanks folks. I'm biting at the bit to get snapping. Maybe something this morning.

 

[BODYDUB]

Sweet pic........................

 

[Aquamojo]

Just about done with the project. Hardest fish I EVER had to photograph...they're dirty, they hide under things and behind things...so I had to come up with some interesting ways to get them to conform.

I will make a more detailed post talking about various steps...trials and errors....and post the best of what I took.

...and every once in a while you get lucky and the fish just line up nice.

 

[ssurajj]

Very nice shots.