Send in the Clowns - Clown Fish Breeding

Ross · #1 10-02-2013, 04:58 AM

Day 6:

LARGE mouths for eating small Rotifers:

Cruising around with an open mouth:

Eye control is fully functional at this point:

gregzz4 · #2 10-03-2013, 01:37 AM

Great pics
Good luck Dad

Coralgurl · #3 10-03-2013, 01:50 AM

Ahhhhmazing pics!! This is one of the coolest threads ever! Thanks for sharing! Good luck

Eduardo · #4 10-03-2013, 04:13 AM

Very cool. Great job on the pics and updates.

Azzkr · #5 10-03-2013, 08:59 AM

Great pictures must be very hard to get pics of those tiny fish. You must of had to take a insane amount of pics to get those few good ones. Keep up the good work.

Ross · #6 10-03-2013, 03:03 PM

Thanks everyone.

The depth of field (area in focus) with a macro lens is small to begin with, add in the erratic movements of the fish and yeah, it took "a few shots" to get them in focus.
At times there was a bit of the "spray and pray" approach to getting them but this proved less effective than sitting idly by patiently waiting.

I like how the rotifers are captured along with the fry. The fry are smaller than a grain of rice and the rotifers are just dust compared to them.

LoJack · #7 10-03-2013, 03:09 PM

Those photos are unbelievably good considering the size of the fry. I remember trying to shoot my Paretroplus Menarambo fry and they were impossible and they were much bigger than this.

Incredible shots and please continue to update the thread ... I'd love to try this in the future ... and you appear to be having great success thus far.

Keep up the good work!