I know, long time no post, sorry all...

[papa_bear_21]

Hey all,

I know it's been a while, thought I would stop in and say hey, and let everyone know how the tanks are doing. We took the 29 gallon down, moved everyone into the 55. We have 2 needlenose fish, our spotted sailfin pleco, a peacock eel, a dragon goby, and a panaque maccus clown pleco. All are doing well, and seem to be getting along well. We sold all of our tropical fish to make room in our 55 for the needles, as they were getting a might cramped in the 29. We have our 2 dwarf puffers in our eclipse 3, they are doing well. All in all, everyone is doing just fine. If we keep the 29 gallon tank, we are talking about a saltwater FOWLR tank when we have extra room and money.

Thank you to everyone who has helped us out with advice and knowledge.

Bear

P.S. I will try to get some pics a little later, need to find the mem card for the camera...LOL

 

[haykay]

ooo yay I love pics and can't wait to see bear!

 

[black hills tj]

Nice to see you back on the boards!

ooo yay I love pics and can't wait to see bear!

What bear?

 

[haykay]

he calls himself bear... so I called him bear too

 

[papa_bear_21]

My kids call me Bear, as do quite a few of my friends...LOL

Ok, I have a picture of the needlenose at this moment, more to come...

 

[black hills tj]

he calls himself bear... so I called him bear too

Well I knew he called himself bear, but after reading your a couple times it seemed like you were waiting to see pics of a bear. My bad

 

[papa_bear_21]

Ok folks, here's some livestock photos, full tank pics to come...

Here's our dragon goby "Dude"

Here's our pleco's:

Our Gibby "Spot"

Our Panaque Maccus "Stripes" (That is what I believe him to be...)
(The brown "dirt" in the first picture is shrimp pellets for the Dragon)

Stripes and Spot hanging out together...

 

[black hills tj]

That's a very pretty Gib. I have a clown and a bunch of bristlenoses(all standard fin, some standard coloration and some albino). I see my BN's all the time, but my clown is the shyest **** fish I have.

 

[papa_bear_21]

He is good lookin, especially for having been through all sorts of stuff, mini cycles, full cycles, rookie mistakes, 64 degree tanks...you name it, he's been there...

 

[Taelen]

Sometimes my clown is really hard to find, but I think I've narrowed down all his hiding spots. I think he likes to take refuge from my yoyo loaches more than anything else, lol.

Bear, how the heck are your pics so clear? I can't take aquarium pics to save my life.

 

[haykay]

I second that! Fantastic pictures! I can't even get my gibby on camera!

 

[papa_bear_21]

Sometimes my clown is really hard to find, but I think I've narrowed down all his hiding spots. I think he likes to take refuge from my yoyo loaches more than anything else, lol.

Bear, how the heck are your pics so clear? I can't take aquarium pics to save my life.

My clown is out quite often, he hides on our driftwood.

The pictures are so clear because I am less than a foot away from the front glass, using a custom setting with 400 shutter speed, and other functions...and I take about 50 pictures...LOL

That is what I was told, take tons of pictures, use manual focus where you can, and be as still as possible...

 

[papa_bear_21]

I second that! Fantastic pictures! I can't even get my gibby on camera!

My gibby loves to lay around in the open...specially around feeding time...LOL

 

[papa_bear_21]

Thank you all for the comments

 

[Purrbox]

That is what I was told, take tons of pictures, use manual focus where you can, and be as still as possible...

And a tripod helps in a big way when it comes to keeping the camera still.

 

[Taelen]

Honestly I think my camera is simply not good enough and I don't have the ability to adjust some of those custom settings like shutter speed. Although I do have an "action" setting.

Were those taken with lights off and flash on?