POST PICS OF YOUR PLANTS AND PLANTED TANKS HERE

[OhioCLE]

I can't directly "quote" reply yet due to being a noob , so let me try this.
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Brian Rodgers -I love these tanks. What did you use to phonograph the Pleco? Beautiful and full of detail
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Google one word. Landedinmyeye.
It will come up as a Flickr photosharing username.
Click photostream or albums for more specific avenues.


The Flickr site is based off camera people.

The camera.
It is an old old outdated camera of my fathers.
Press it all the way up against the glass so the glare and imperfections in the tank's glass are out of the situation.
Snap shots and see what comes out well.
I have a good hundred that I took that did not look so good!
This is why I posted a good one.
Thanks for the interest.

Camera: Panasonic DMC -LX3

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tiger15 Beautiful golbies and planted tanks, also some shrimp and unusual plecos. I am surprised your plecos don't chew up your plants.

You only have a couple clamped light on each tank. Are they low tech and low light set up. What light and plants do you have?
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All Kessil lights.
A160WE and A80 models.
The A160 series is 40 watts on high, but used on low.
The A80 series is flat, has no noise and uses 15 watts on high, but they are on 1/3 tojust under 1/2 power.

I like the simplicity and the clean open look.
I always have my hands in the tank, so I wanted an open clean area to dig in and swing out of the way.

 

[Brian Rodgers]

Our 50 gallon living room planted aquarium

I'm trying different settings on my camera. Nothing getting better though. Perhaps it's the compression? I know it could be anything.

 

[Hendre]

To get really good pics block or turn off any light source but the tank lights and clean the glass in and out

 

[Brian Rodgers]

That's as clean as it gets I'm afraid.

 

[Hendre]

Alright. For my more advanced photoshoots I wait for night time and turn off everything but the tank lights, this leaves no glare

 

[Brian Rodgers]

I hear you on that. My big tank is in a greenhouse so getting a good picture is even more difficult there.

 

[tarheel96]

Press it all the way up against the glass so the glare and imperfections in the tank's glass are out of the situation.

Good advice for dwarf cichlids that won't stay still ... unless they're hiding from the camera. Holding the camera up against the glass allowed me to get these photos of my kribensis pair and a couple of the juveniles.


Juvenile about 1".


Pelvicachromis pulcher Mom and Dad. The male on the left is 3.25" and the female is 2.5".


Plants are a Cryptocoryne species but I believe they were mislabeled, ie. not 'Tropica'. This shows the largest of the six juveniles, around 1 3/8"

 

[Jexnell]

My first go with plants. Only some swords, crypts and vaills.

 

[Brian Rodgers]

Yes, pressing the camera up to glass does help. The large volume of water in my 2600 gallon tank always makes the water look dirty in pictures. The image of the Brook Trout looks close, but the fingerlings are several feet away from the camera.

 

[Lilyann]

Just set up yesterday so plants have some growing to do.