The
fish, one tiger oscar and one big cat. For size comparison, that
white pipe in the back of the tank is around 1" in diameter.
A
photo of a small Red Cap Oranda, by small I mean 40 mm long or so.
A new addition to a newly set up 55 gallon in our family room. This
tank sat empty when one of my large Tiger Oscar died. Then I decided
to set up the tank inside the house. It was going to be a tropical
community tank. To establish the tank we placed over 50 very small feeder
goldfish in. It was the tank of death for awhile, probably not enough food.
Three feeder goldfish survived and became Lisa and the kid's pets.
I could not get rid of them, so I had to make this a goldfish tank, fine
with me. But I will be patient and picky when selecting fish for
this tank. I purchased fish only after viewing two other stores with
sick and substandard stock. I selected only two because of the faults
in the fin structures, like folds or uneven size. I recalled the
standards from the books that I have read in the past.
Here
is a small Calico Ryukin. Lisa is very good at feeding and we are
sure that these new additions will become 'pig' fish. That is large
and plump. This is fine with me because my care in the past has not
been very successful with these types of fish. These are also a very
challenging type of photo to get because of the very active nature of the
subjects. These two photos are the 'best' of at least forty photo
attempts. Do not try this with film.
The newest addition to our tank. One small Black Moor.
The same Black Moor with large eyes. The Black Moor's deep color
is difficult to photgraph. It's constant motion also try's my patience.