Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
LOTS of pics : rio 400 : tanganyikan community
Last time i had a lot of valis which didnt take hold and slowly but surely died.
A nice algae has taken hold of the background which i really like
The male frontosa used to have his fins nipped, but these have grown quite a bit since my last pics of them.
Leleupi fry hiding in cave
same leleupi fry, with danger lurking around the corner
Female calvus in her barnacle cave
Male coming over for a look...
Leleupi enjoying some krill
Female Juli Transcriptus (still need a male if anyone has one)
Leleupi fry beside father
Some pics of the male frontosa
Male and female
Closeup of male
Female on her own
How has the frontosa not eaten the leleupi fry yet... size difference!!!
Leleupi spawing again
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yeah fran taught me everything I know (not everything he knows tho!)
Could you give a few tips on how you manage to get photographs like that? I have a NIKON D80 and that is what I used for taking the photographs of my baby fish seen in the \"for sale\" section...and they are all dim.
I used a flash but it was too bright!
Help!
Sorry only getting back to this reply now.
You've got a nikon D80.. that's a good camera
so ill let you know what I did with these shots.
If you can change the ISO on the camera this will help
So basically youre making the camera more sensitive to light
and can take shots in darker conditions.
The downside is that sometimes the shots get grainy
especially in the darks/shadows.
Im using a 24-70 F2.8 (or 2.4.. cant remember) lens.
ctd.
So if you have a lens with a smaller F number
then it means it has a bigger hole to let more light in.
They're usually expensive but you can get a 50mm lens that's F1.8
which isnt expensive... at least for a canon camera you can.
So when im taking the pics, im trying to make sure my shutter speed
is around 60 or 80 at very very least, more if possible.
So i open up the aperature as much as possible 2.8
and check with a photo.. if the shutter speed was only 20 then it's too slow
and dark, so then id up the ISO to 800 / 1000 and try taking another photo.
bahh.. this post is long and probably hugely inacurate..
if you're serious then have a read here
www.cichlidforum.com/articles/photography_list.php
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