Some pictures, plain but pretty.

[flaringshutter]

My humble fish, many of whom I picked out of the feeder tank. They're nothing fancy, but I'm quite fond of them and they seem to like me too. They're all over 14 inches now and quickly outgrowing their 120 gallon tank. These photos are about a year old now.

In order, Napoleon (orange comet) and my big bruiser female common Upstart, Alexei, female comet, Sakura, male shubunkin, Upstart again.

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[flaringshutter]

A few more of the others.
In order, Sprocket and Sparkplug, both homebred fry. I kept some eggs when they spawned in December 2007, and these were two of the ten or so that survived my trial-and-error fry raising experiment. The rest were all deformed (what can you expect from feeder-fish parents) but these were healthy so I decided to keep them, mainly for sentimental reasons.
Wrench, the watonai from Steve at Raingarden. He's at about 3 inches in this shot, and has grown considerably, to about 6 inches now.
Lastly, Morris, my lumpy little oranda.


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[flaringshutter]

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A couple just for fun. You all know these faces.


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And finally, my 55g snail tank. 13 species, 50 or so individuals.


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Hope you enjoy them!

[small_ranchu]

Beautiful Fish + very good picture. How do you take those pics?

[thomasn]

yea, great looking pictures. I like the first fish in post #3 a lot.

What kind of light do you use?

[flaringshutter]

Thanks! These are mostly lit with two 580EX strobes above the tank and a Canon 20D. I'm a newspaper photog, so it's a setup I use a lot for work.

[misty_blue16137]

They are all indeed very pretty but love the Oranda!