Livestock shots - let's see em

[justahobby]

The unofficial sequel to Karin's April FTS thread.... let's see your livestock up close :applause:

I'll start w/ my clown goby that jnannery so graciously gave me after it was eating his SPS. It took a lot of freshly hatched baby brine, and this:




to get him to him to accept the foods I wanted him to and it's a rewarding experience. Cellphone pics.....So enjoy:

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One of my favorite coral... Tri color War Coral I bought from Mr. Cob's Corals is always ready to eat. Pretty sure he spot feeds them.

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Up next is Mr. Melli Vanilli (melanurus wrasse .....and conviently Milly, indirectly, introduced me to this fish) and some hot rhodactis shrooms

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[Europhyllia]

cute little princess :)

The FTS shot is Chris' by the way. I am just nosy and want to see more tanks. ;)

[Kristy]

Wow Karin, I think calling Justin a princess might be offensive, even though he obviously has a pretty slick phone to take such awesome photos!!

Justin, I love the little yellow clown goby pics... Such personality!!! And that one of the melanurus wrasse is just a great photo. Nice job!

[Europhyllia]

lol - geesh why is so much on this board centered around manliness...

I am talking about the little happy goby on her little toadstool pillow, smiling into the camera - of course :)

[justahobby]

Yeah.... "Joker" is a boy and that is his Lazy Boy recliner :D I was excited to finally get decent shots of him. His bright color makes it hard to get a good shot too. I kept getting a yellow or white glow around him.

[Europhyllia]

can you really tell (sex) or are you making this up?

[CoryDude]

Oh, this is so tempting!

[justahobby]

Nah, making it up. Joker doesn't sound as cool if he is a she. But they are bi hermaphraditic ....or something like that. Gobies change sex when paired with another. The bigger becomes the male. This guy is a bit bigger than most so I'm thinking male

[CoryDude]

Here's some recent shots:

http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp100/cpryor74/DSC_0102.jpg

http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp100/cpryor74/DSC_0044_edited-3.jpg

...and an actinic shot.

http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp100/cpryor74/DSC_0101.jpg

[CoryDude]

Here's some from Lorraine's tank that I liked:

http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp100/cpryor74/LR10.jpg

http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp100/cpryor74/LR3.jpg

http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp100/cpryor74/LR2.jpg

[Kristy]

Great photos Cory! Your work keeps getting better and better!!

[justahobby]

The fairy wrasse shot is insane!!!!!! Thanks for posting.

[Europhyllia]

The blenny eyes/face is my favorite :)

[CoryDude]

Thanks Kristy, Justin, and Karin. Fish shots pretty much happen by accident, so it's mostly up to luck on getting a good shot. That and taking 400 pics to get a couple of good ones.

[allan]

lol - geesh why is so much on this board centered around manliness...:)

It's because if you're out with a bunch of dudes at the local biker bar one does NOT start talking fish tanks.

So we try to man it up here when we get a chance ;)

I'm going to try to get the yellow rim nibbling at my fingers...

http://tapatalk.com/mu/6008b7e8-386f-9731.jpg

http://tapatalk.com/mu/6008b7e8-389e-b905.jpg

Can't seem to get a good pic while he nibbles the fingers.

http://tapatalk.com/mu/6008b7e8-38ff-d9ee.jpg

http://tapatalk.com/mu/6008b7e8-392b-b10e.jpg

The BC is always looking for food but it's hard to get the phone too close before he pulls back.

http://tapatalk.com/mu/6008b7e8-398a-f688.jpg

One more of the feeding frenzy.

[Europhyllia]

seahorse (of course)
http://www.dominopads.com/424seahorse.jpg

really huge chiton (in front: Ace's Golden Sea Spray gorgo):
http://www.dominopads.com/424chiton.jpg

Justin's lovely Cinnamon Palys:
http://www.dominopads.com/424cinnamon.jpg

little Maze brain waking up hungry in a sea of baby brine and rotis:
http://www.dominopads.com/424maze.jpg

The significant thing about this shot is that the natural growth on this gorgo would be similar to a bottle brush (see lower branches). I got it as a large frag from our aquacultured gorgo group buy and I was a little disappointed because they shipped me one that was the decapitated bottom piece, missing the top. Over time though it grew all of this new crazy little branchlets trying to fill in the top that it was missing so that growth structure is kind of unique :):
http://www.dominopads.com/424gorgo.jpg

[LuckySingh]

Nice pics Karin....keep up with the Gud wrk....

[justahobby]

That is a mighty chiton! I really like the last gorgonian shot too. And glad to see the cinnamon palys are thriving.

[txav8r]

Livestock?

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii234/joat_mon_3/29e12f3d.jpg

[hobogato]

lol!

great pics everyone

[aquasport24]

:rofl::lmao2::lauging:....good one Jack.

[Big_Pun]

some recent shots
fts with my fav fish yellow corris
http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu357/stangchris/1f8680ca.jpg

Slyvette(named for series of paintings by Picasso): ora semi picassohttp://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu357/stangchris/9256ca60.jpg

birdnests, red cap:
http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu357/stangchris/a42d2b81.jpg

green birdnest from above pic had to trim it up a lil the other day
http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu357/stangchris/d10833b4.jpg

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu357/stangchris/d70dea0d.jpg

[hobogato]

seems to be growing like crazy chris - really like that cap/bnest pic

[Big_Pun]

seems to be growing like crazy chris - really like that cap/bnest pic

thanks ace, that big birdnest is the very first piece of sps i bought. got it from gabe its a fhi piece still mounted to original plug

[ErikH]

Can I post here?

[ErikH]

Here's some of my favorites of fish I have, or have had....
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x315/erikharrison/Fish/FatArse2.jpg
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x315/erikharrison/Fish/DSC_0027Medium-1.jpg
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x315/erikharrison/Fish/humu4.jpg
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x315/erikharrison/Fish/ScorpionFish-WOW-1.jpg
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x315/erikharrison/Fish/fatasssmiling.jpg
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x315/erikharrison/Fish/Puffer1.jpg
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x315/erikharrison/Fish/DSC_0266Large.jpg
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x315/erikharrison/Fish/Houdini.jpg

[ErikH]

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x315/erikharrison/Fish/2-6-09%20Macros/GorgonianCloseCrop1.jpg

[Europhyllia]

I am really surprised you let that beautiful puffer (or box fish) go Erik. He seemed very special :)