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The choice of a digital camera depends on what you are planning to do with it.
I own a Canon Powershot G2 which isn't very good in taking macro-photo's, but with an additional macrolens which you can attach to the camera with an adapter you get pictures like this
so if you use the camera...
Well he (it's a male) did snatch 1 wriggler one time so if your are trying to get as many offspring as possible it may not be a good choice to put a zebra pleco in an Apisto breeding tank :)
but the interaction between the apisto's and the pleco is going fine without any problems: they leave...
first of all the inhabitants of my tank:
- 6 Cardinals
- 5 Red Phantoms
- 1 Zebra Pleco
- 6 Corydoras sodalis
- 5 Nannostomus eques
- a pair of Apistogramma beanchi
and some shrimp
normally they ignore the other fish, unless when it is feeding time: they rule the tank :wink:
but now...
Some more pictures of the now a little more than 1 month old fry with bellies full of BBS:
The bellies look like they can explode any minute: can fry overeat themself?
I really need to clean the algae off the glass of the tank which contains the male: the algae makes it impossible to...
Link works for me too
I've seen pictures of these tanks before and they are really stunning! I have the 3 books written and photographed by Amano himself: Nature Aquarium World part 1-3
these contain even more pictures to drewl on :wink:
I feed them the following frozen foods: black & white mosquito larvae, daphnia, artemia, cyclops and mysis.
And thank for the compliments :wink:
Someday I will get a good picture of the male
since I have the same problem (I don't want to feed more since that will also increase my phosphates) I up my nitrates with KNO3 which I bought at the local drugstore.
after the algae stopped growing the snails in my tank ate it all in a few weeks time. so with keeping your waterchemistry in...
this may be your problem!
I had problems with algae in the past and solved it all with keeping my nitrates at 5mg/l, my phosphates near 0mg/l and my iron at 1mg/l
I found that if I keep my phosphates as close as possible to 0mg/l all my algea problems disappeared in a few weeks and they...