Scenes from the Fish Tank

Here are a few scenes from my fish tanks.

I was trying to see how well my DSLR macro camera would shoot through glass and water. As it turns out it is very difficult to get a clear picture. Big items like my ceramic skull are easy to shoot but moving fish are tough to get a clear focus on.

Here is the king of the tank my male angel fish. Someday I want to get a female for him to possibly have them spawn some fish fry. The only problem is angel fish become very aggressive when they have babies around and will kill other fish in the tank. So I would need to clear out the whole tank for just angel fish to live there.

Here are the cleaners of the tank, these are red ramshorn snails. They love all kinds of algae and do a good job of cleaning all the glass surface. They are in a big ball right now because I dropped an algae pellet in the tank and they are all trying to get a bite in. Even the baby endler guppies are trying to get to the pellet.

Here's one of the snails doing his rounds on the glass.

This is my albino cory catfish. He cleans the bottom of the tank of fish food and fish poop lol.

This guy is an Otocinclus catfish one of the smallest catfish you can get. These are also really good glass cleaners.

Most of the other fish in the tank are Endlers guppies. Most of these aren't quite full grown yet but they are close. The colorful ones are males, the larger plain ones are females. These are one of the few fish that give live birth rather than lay eggs.

Here is another colorful male, they are constantly trying to woo the females and the females are continually giving birth to babies. Most of the babies get eaten by the larger fish but a few of the babies are able to hide out in the plant to get large enough not to be eaten.

Here is a larger female, most of their color is just on their tail. This one is also unique as she has a split tail which is a genetic variation.

This is another half grown female without a split tail variation and a bright green color to her tail. There is also some annoying black beard algae growing on the ground. This algae is very hard to get rid of, even the red snails rarely eat it. If you don't remove it your whole tank can potentially get overtaken by this.

I also have a couple shrimp in the tank. This one is a red wine shrimp latin name Caridina cantonensis. I also have an Amano shrimp in in the tank but it was hiding somewhere (probably in the skull).

The red shrimp posed for a while in an open area but shooting through glass often results in a soft edged photo. I think the macro lens has trouble distinguishing between the surface of the glass, water and the focal object. Perhaps I'll need to get an underwater camera for clearer shots of the tank.

That's all for now thanks for looking :-)