My Planted Aquarium + 15 Celestial Pearls
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Hi everyone, I just wanted to show what my aqurium looks like. The CPDs are by themselves in a species tank. They sure do look elegent schooling about at the edge of the val cluster.
They are also very very quick and certainly intelligent in some way, as they notice when I have a camera at my face rather than just me. When they see the camera, they act differently and are more cautious so its more difficult to take a better picture of them. What do you guys think?
-David
Nice! Are those lotus plants?
Yeah, they are definitely very intelligent, it’s been really hard for me to get shots as well. As for having the camera, I think they can tell, and my theory is that if you have an active autofocus, it sends out a beam, either ultrasonic or infrared, and because they are so sensitive, they detect it. I think the only solution would be to use a passive fixed focus, and hope they wander into the correct focal range before you take the shot. That’s just my guess.
I was thinking of adding lotus plants to my tank too, but am concerned about them blocking out the light away from my other plants.
Ahh, now that makes better sense! Probably Infrared laser, some cameras have a visible light that accompanies it to prepare the subjects.
The thing is, I haven’t any experience of raising the more sensitive side of aquatics, so this will be a new experience.
They are lotus, I brought a bulb with two plants for $15. Turned out, when I removed the two plants and let the bulb sit in the bottom two new plants emerged. 4 plants for 15 bucks, not bad!
I took a video of these guys and posted it on youtube…
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=0viXlct1V8U[/youtube]
-David
The lotus DO block out the light. I had some kind of grassy plant, I don’t remember the name, but they became a weed that I didnt like. The lotus blocked out the light to the point the weed plant wouldn’t boom. So, I got rid of the plant and now it seems a little empty.
So the other day I brought some microswords in hope to fill that area. I can’t find any dwarf hairgrass anywhere here. They just aren’t as populous here in Oregon as other places.
I’ll try and post a picture later.
-David
Update on the tank:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXoq_dtTgNA[/youtube]
0:05-0:06 : Non-Dominant Male appearing on right side; he is very pale and color depth is very close resemblance to dominant females
0:10-0:14 : Dominant Female in middle; you can see her close color coordination to that non-dominant male from before. If you look closely, you can see the “gravid” spot on her…
0:40-0:43 : Females; if you look closely, they all have gravid spots. Their color is quite pale, is this normal?
The rest of the video shows the rest of the bunch. I was able to get this footage because I just dropped in some of the hikari micro wafers and it had sunk to the bottom. Those wafers smell real potent! Those guys go for ’em like trout to powerbait…
The really active one in the bunch (right bottom corner @ 2:08 ) came from the second batch (of 2) and came a couple days ago. You can notice it still has that “sunken” stomach look. Hopefully, he’ll fatten right up. The other one in that last batch is gone…I can’t find it because it already has fattened up and mixed in with the rest. :lol:
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