PHOTO OF THE MONTH Contest for August, 2006

[darkdep]

Our Monthly Photo contest is a fun way to show off your fish and tanks.  Post your photo in this thread to enter!  Superior photo skills are not a requirement, an interesting picture is

Rules:

• Everyone is welcome to participate.
• You can make a single entry only.  Enter your best picture!
• Photos must be your own, and must be aquarium related.
• The photo must NOT have been previously entered in an OVAS photo contest.
• Entries will be accepted until August 25th.  Roughly a week of voting will follow, and the winner will be announced on August 31st.
• By entering a photo into the contest, you agree to grant OVAS specific usage rights to the photo (for possible inclusion in future photo galleries, newsletters, or promotional material).  You are NOT granting ownership rights, just usage rights.  You may watermark your photo with copyright information if you wish.
• Photos should be 800x600 or 1024x768 in size, preferably 1024x768.
• During voting, photos will be voted on by forum members.  One vote per person.
• Photo Quality matters, but the interest of the photo should come first.
• You CANNOT vote for yourself.  I will enforce this.

Good luck to all entrants this month!

[pegasus]

The summer heat got them too. 3 days of kissing before laying their eggs among my tropheus colony.

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[Julie]

Ricordea:

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[bitterman]

1 of 4 G1 Yellow Calvus from SteveOOO  (Thanks Steve as you can see they are doing very well!)

Isn't it purdy?



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[mseguin]

Your avatar caption belies that picture pegasus :-) But a very nice picture

[PaleoFishGirl]

"Maybe if I stay still enough, she won't see me!?"

This is my Western Rainbowfish (?) Melanotaenia splendida australis (obtained from Big Daddy) trying to blend in with a Red Tiger Lotus.



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[PaleoFishGirl]

bitterman, I made your pic a little more manageable so we could see the whole thing and the page would load quicker - if you want to change it, just edit the [img width=xx] attribute.

[charlie]

Local bred ram ( Thanks Henry)

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[Woody]

Two of my little Dario, they still are just over a centimeter long.

Woody

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[DavidJohnson]

My Rainbows



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[mseguin]

Great pictures so far

[henry]

Pair of rams

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[Rocktopus]

The Rams have my vote.  What sort of Camera do most of you get by with for these shots?  Any standard digital?  My underwater photography career never really took off.

[henry]

I'm just using a Fuji E550.

[charlie]

I`m using a Canon S1 IS.

[squeeker]

My hoplo cats... they never sit still!

I use a Panasonic DMC-LC33, and I love it. 

[Seanc]

here is one of my wild rio tefe discus.
hope you like it.


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[mseguin]

My male Apistogramma uaupesi 's having a showdown (one on the right has proven to be the dominant one). Not the best pricture, but their displays are very impressive.

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[lucky777]

trying out mew cam

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[invisibleshopper]

O:k, My second attempt at attaching my picture.

It is a Black Masked Copper Gold Half-Moon Plakat Male.

Thanks for looking.

KLT


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[rickster]

Hope you all like this new picture of my 180 gallon tank . take care

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[jee]

here's my 2 tenant of my 29G bowfront
(M) VeilZebra Angelfish and (F) Koi Angelfish
hope you like it even if theres the flash
Cheers!

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[RoxyDog]

Seanc, that's one nice discus! 

I finally got some of my fish to stay still...



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[succinctfish]

Here's a picture of one of my wee angelfish

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[artw]

Nice Plants Roxydog you planted tank wierdo you

[Muad'Dib]

Nice Plants Roxydog you planted tank wierdo you

And someday... maybe... mine will look that nice....
After all I am getting advice from the master herself.....
Just call me Grasshopper...

[Boosterman]

It's time for her daily cleaning by Jacque the shrimp

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[jee]

his he cleaning the TANG ?  sooooo cute  
jacque rules!!! lol

[Boosterman]

Yup the tang goes up to him every couple of day's at least when I see it. He is the only fish that I have seen that will allow Jacque to clean.  but it's cool when you hear about it and then see it.

[toomanyfish]

That is so cool.  I never heard of that. 

[mseguin]

The cleaner shrimp at work come up to clean my hand, they can pinch pretty good trying to get the dead skin off.

[babblefish1960]

So they help with the annual sloughing? That would help the notorious freaky deaky dutch bad guy who was forever saving his bits of skin.

[Aiglos]

This is a picture I took this morning while feeding my tank. 

I purchesed this gold nugget from Big als innes a little while ago,  and he is quite a character,  not shy at all, he stood still and let me took about 20 pictures of him before I decided on this one. 

You will also see 2 Cherry shrimp hanging around him in the picture.

I highly recommend people purchese gold nugget plecos, they stay relatively small for a pleco and are also not shy plecos at all if given lots of hiding places, they are also great algea cleaners. 

The yellow on this guys tail isnt too great,  when buying them try to find ones with Strait thick yellow lines on there tail,I hope as this one grows it will correct itself.  My father has a gold nugget that would win fish shows anywhere its soo beutiful.  I will try to get a picture of him for next photo contest. 

 

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[SuperT]

Aiglos, i was expecting a pic of your oscar, but i must say (since I have two gold nuggets) yours outshines mine.  A stunning fish and fantastic picture.

Here is my entry.

Terry

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[PaleoFishGirl]

 

Terry - nice shot!

[Aiglos]

Aiglos - nice shot!

Thank you PFG ;p 

[SuperT]

Thanks PFG, sometimes the fish co-operate for more than a 1/2 second.

Aiglos (not to hijack the thread), can you tell me what you are feeding your plec I had a close look at mine tonight and their colour seems to be fading if thats possible.

Terry

[Aiglos]

Aiglos (not to hijack the thread), can you tell me what you are feeding your plec I had a close look at mine tonight and their colour seems to be fading if thats possible.
Terry

Terry: His Diet Consists of Hikari Algea Wafers; HBH Vegtable flakes, I also feed ALOT of live/frozen food,  he loves whiteworms, and bloodworms, he also eats some brine shrimp.   The tank is also very planted and he spends alot of his time cleaning valisnaria which im sure he gets alot of nutrients from.
I believe that these fish thrive in planted tanks where they get the nutrients they need and the security they need to feel comfortable.  My father had his in a 90 Gallon Discus/denisoni barb tank and we never saw it,  he moved it to his 55 Gallon Heavily planted high light tank and the guy is all over the place now, always out and always eating haha.

[PaleoFishGirl]

Thank you PFG ;p 

Beautiful shot as well, Michael

[cory]

[darkdep]

Folks:

I'll let picture submissions come in until Monday morning, when I'll close down for a quick voting round.  Bit too much to do at the moment to get the voting set up

[pitabread]

Figured I'd sneak a submission in under the wire.  It's of my (now deceased) gourami.  He just died today.  He was one of my favorite fish and I'll miss the little guy. 

[PaleoFishGirl]

Whoa.  Nice shot!

[Aiglos]

Looks like somone has a really nice camera