Jamie wanted pichers, so he gets dragonets gettin busy in front of an audience...

WOW THOSE ARE FREAKING AMAZING SHOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! are the mandarins spawning?

What is that?

Holy Hell those are some nice photos.

My fav is between the mandarin 10th down and the basslet. Major props still to the burrowing shrimp and the chromis.

i agree. i love these shots. nice work!

Spectacular!

FTS?

Awesome mandarins!

That's Daniel's new tank............ with all the SPS and stuff..............









































































i crack myself up

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Edit: Ok, now that I can load the pictures... fantastic stuff. I have a hell of a time trying to get a clear shot of fish. You make it look easy.

thanks all



we think it was their pre-spawning dance.



some sort of commensal crab i think. it had taken over an old christmas tree worm tube.



Check back Nov. 1 and I'll have one.



maybe in the next life...



enjoyin those thunderstorms, eh?

nothing i did, i assure you. i credit my favorite lens and the overwhelming amount of light in the tank. apparently it becomes a lot easier if you can shoot at 1/500

I like the chromis hiding in the birdsnest. Neat crab pic. IIRC, those commensal crabs are a type of hermit that filter feed with their antennae.

I've seen a hermit crab mistake a christmas tree hole for a shell, stayed in there for a long time. I think the fish store spot fed him. I'm assuming that's what that is.

These are amazing.

if this were landscape it would be on my desktop.

According to the owners of the tank it is a sessile crab not a hermit. It lives in the rock and filter feeds as lakshwadeep said with their antenna.

I've seen a couple before at the LFS in a christmas tree porite rock. They are super cool!

Were those taken with the 18-55 or did you get a new lens? That bokeh is fantastic!

yup, i believe so.



sessile just refers to it's non-mobile habit, it's still a hermit




i didn't even shoot a version of that landscape...got a battery grip, and now i'm stuck in vertical mode.





nah, those are all the Sigma 150 macro.

 


It happens. You'll have to force yourself take landscape shots now.

Blah you know what I mean.

You should see the tank he didn't take pictures of. Wow was it nice.

Oh yeah, I knew you had gotten that. For some reason I've never heard of people shooting fish with a macro lens, nice!

Must be the new WAMAS TOTM

lol, well besides the obvious quality advantage...

i like using it because i can stand back a bit further, gives the skittish fish a bit more comfort.

of course, i'd rather have the 17-55 2.8 and a 70-200 2.8 IS for most of the fish shots...





oh don...maybe i just went to the zoo

HOT

I love the hermit crab.