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

Today In The Fishroom~8/16/10 Variety again

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16 Aug 2010 13:44 #1 by Aquamojo (Mo Devlin)

Today In The Fishroom~8/16/10 Variety again was created by Aquamojo (Mo Devlin)

I took some photos of a few fish that normally remain hidden among the others in a 300 gallon tank. Here's F0 A. Robertsoni from Rio Jutiapa in Honduras. The fish is also known as Red Cheek Robertsoni:

A shot of A. Nourisati...the Dilver Dollar makes the size of the fish deceiving. The SD is closer to the camera and about five inches in diameter (height). the Nourisati is about 8"

Some close ups of the beautiful fins of P. Fredrichsthali "La Cieba". Here's one with the background in tact.

This one I knocked out the BG in photoshop to make the fins "pop"

And finally...here's a High Dynamic Range photo of a single fish tank in the fish room. It currently houses some small grow outs. You can see them if you zoom in...but not that obvious overall. I tried it with this tank only becasue you can't see the small fish from this distance in all of the exposures. Bigger fish have more motion and would look odd. I'm going to try and set up a shot of a bigger fish early one morning when they are still sleeping and more or less immobile.

This is actually ten exposures starting at 30 seconds (lens open) and ending at 1/30th of a second. Each exposure illuminates a little more or a little less of the detail giving detail in both shadow and highlights. The only light I used was the single strip light over the tank and the spill over light from a tank behind this one. The shots are then combined using special software. Pretty cool stuff.