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hello my name is samorrow, and I just joyned your grupe a fue days ago, I love cichlids and hope to get a tank soon, well just wanted to interduce myself. have a nice day.

I wanted to post photo album, went to folder…it says: You do not have the privileges to perform this operation ( add photos to album)

I just wanted to post an update on this…
I got the supplies (they took quite a bit longer than I thought with the web order) and got right to cutting the poly-pad. It is *very* nice, thick material, especially compared to the biobag I was using! I was able to make a continuous […]

Hi Steve / Lenny Here comes my naivety, in the past when I’ve had fish (in the majority of occasion – there been fresh water fish) this is the second time in my life that I’ve kept tropical and I’ve basically just put the tank together, waited for a week then started adding fish […]

I haven’t had time to absorb everything in your post and I don’t want to get into details because one thing I wanted to bring to your attention is that the goldfish should be in at least a 55G… if it’s a fancy goldfish.
Long-bodied goldfish need much more room since they are big swimmers and […]

 
I am a new aquarist as well and the one thing that frustrated me is that when I purchased the 5gal tank the sales rep. did not mention that I would require a larger tank if I wanted to purchase certain fish, well I knew all along I wanted cichlids, but was not informed […]

It was, but not so much now. Working 10-16 hrs a day kind of puts a crimp in a lot of things, but I do enjoy my limited time off . Before I went to slides, I developed my film and made my own prints. Now with digital stuff, you do have more control over […]

Thanks Steve for clarifying that! Is photography another hobby of yours?
The bettas I was having trouble getting pics of were indeed iridescent. Very good call on that one!
-Lana
“There is nothing more useful than sun and salt.” - Latin proverb
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Steve Szabo wrote:
> You […]

You cannot use a steady source of bright light for your photos. The fish will become washed out because of the steady source. You need to use strobe flashes, ideally two coming from the sides above the tank, pointing into the tank and two at tank level coming in at angles to the front of […]

Most electronic cameras will let you take movies. And some of the more expensive and full featured ones have different ways to vary the shutter speed.
Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX tiggernut24@yahoo.com