My New 15L Opti Nano Nº1

[LondonDragon]

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Thanks guys 🙂

Superb shrimp shots mate! Looks like you've got to grips with the flash. What's the set-up?

Hi George, its the same old setup mate, just downloaded some software to try and fix the issues I am having with the Konica-Minolta 5D, improved a little but still having major focusing issues with it, for every 50 shots I get half a dosen in focus, which is a nightmare. Was trying the Wireless flash Minolta 3600HS with the opti-white for macro, which I haven't tried before.

 

[Steve Smith]

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Great shots Paulo! Like the shrimplet getting a piggy-back photo 🙂

 

[andyh]

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Some great pics! The shrimp in the 3rd pic is a beauty!

So are you using a wireless triggered flash above the tank for these?
Andy

 

[flygja]

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Could your camera be back-focusing? I had a A100, which was basically a KM5D and it backfocused on a few lenses, especially at wide-open apertures where the lack of DOF brutally exposes focusing errors.

 

[LondonDragon]

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So are you using a wireless triggered flash above the tank for these?
Andy

Hi Andy, I use the camera flash and also a wireless flash over the top of the tank, the internal flash triggers the external.

Could your camera be back-focusing? I had a A100, which was basically a KM5D and it backfocused on a few lenses, especially at wide-open apertures where the lack of DOF brutally exposes focusing errors.

Interesting, I have read a few forums about the KM5D and they say it has to be returned to Sony to get fixed. Apparently a defect that develops after using the camera for a while.

 

[LondonDragon]

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Quick video taken last night with my new digital camera, was just a quick test need to play around with the settings a little more:



Thanks for looking 🙂

 

[B7fec]

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Great video, just afew shrimp there.......

What the white food they're eating?

 

[LondonDragon]

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Great video, just afew shrimp there.......
What the white food they're eating?

Thanks 🙂 they are eating Sera Shrimp pellets.

 

[ghostsword]

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Your tank looks pretty cool...

Do you use filtration?

 

[LondonDragon]

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Your tank looks pretty cool...
Do you use filtration?

Thanks Luis, I am using an hang filter at present, the Niagara 300.


Full tank shot:


Over looking, even have a couple of plants growing on it lol:

 

[ghostsword]

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cool looking.. What plant is that growing on the filter?

 

[LondonDragon]

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cool looking.. What plant is that growing on the filter?

Not sure about the name, got it from Living Waters, Darren threw it in the bag of shrimp I got when I was there. I have now replaced it with a fern, I can take some photos later to show it, looks much better, not sure if the fern will survive in it, will wait and see.

 

[nayr88]

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This tank is fully bonerfied

 

[dw1305]

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Hi all,
Very nice, the plant in the HOB looks like Hygrophila corymbosa "siamensis" (Syn. Nomaphila stricta) it is a good emergent and has pretty mauve flowers. I've still got a bit of it in the "RCS and Moss" tank, but it used to be magnificent when I had the over-tank planted trickle filters set up in the lab.
cheers Darrel

 

[LondonDragon]

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Thanks Darrel 🙂 not sure if its that, I will post a closer macro for ID 😉

 

[mlgt]

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I think Darrel could be right. I do remember its a type of Hygrphila as it grows emersed from one of the tanks at Living waters.

 

[LondonDragon]

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Been a while since an update, here is how the tank looks at present, just noticed today I have a sole green shrimp survivor, how do you breed with just one 🙁

This one is for Matt, he asked for a close up of the fern inside the hang on filter:



Some close up of the cherries in this tank:











Macro lens, plus macro filters added to the lens:





That's about it for now, thanks for looking 🙂

 

[ghostsword]

Hi LD,

Great tank, and great recovery.. 🙂

What sort of fern is that? It looks really good on the filter. How is it planted? On a pot, or does it have a Rhyzome?

 

[LondonDragon]

Don't know the actual name, I have the tag at home I will post it later, its a variety of Microsorum that I purchased in IKEA, I removed the pot and the plant has nothing on its roots, just the rihzone placed inside the filter, I can remove it easily too, to clean the filter and just put it back afterwards.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
I'm very interested in the fern as well, looks very impressive.
I don't know what it is, but it looks a bit like the Mangrove Fern Acrostichum aureum from "Hydrophytes" Riparium thread, but I'm not sure.


http://uforest.blogspot.com/2009/05/walk-at-sungei-serangoon-mangroves.html

Another possibility would be Bolbitis asiatica or heteroclita, but again not quite right.

Possibly an Asplenium?, looks a bit like it might be but I have no idea of which one.

cheers Darrel