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Hello everybody,

yesterday evening, I was cleaning the filter of my tank, because the
waterflow was a bit bad.
I was very surprised, when I saw a little fish swimming in the filter.
After a while I managed to get him out and into an empty bowl, to view
what I got here. I could not belive it, but it is a little sewellia elongata!
As a first action, I put a filter sponge over the filterintake, so it could
not happen again.
Then I searched for more than half an hour all spots in my tank to see,
if there are some more. And there I could see three more little fish
swimming along the ground in a corner of the tank.
I tried to make a photo of the one, I have caught in the bowl. Its very
difficult to get a photo of this just 1 cm little creature, but one I think is O.K so I can show it to you.

greetings Thomas

http://homepage.bluewin.ch/weltenbummle ... ta_new.jpg

congrats.

You must be doing something right. Thanks for the post and picture.

That's great!
Keep taking pics!

das ist phantastisch.
some more details ...?
gruss charles

Hi Charles

what more details do you want to know?

My sewellia live in an 300 liter tank together with a group of Trigonostigma hengeli and some shrimps.
The front part of the tank is with sand and a lot of stones. In the back there is some fine gravel ground and a lot of plants.
For the current I have a coralia pump with a waterflow of 2400 l/h.
I dont have a heater in the tank. The temperature is at the moment
21,5 degree Celsius, but it was up to 25 degrees in summer.
The you sewellia I could see were mostly in the corner, where there is
nearly no current, they hide between rocks and plants. It is very difficult
to see them there. But the adults are also very shy. Mostly they come out
only for feeding and when there is no one moving to close in front of the
tank. So I think, the youngsters are even more shy.

I will watch them carefully, and when I get the chance to get some more
pictures I will show them to you.
I also will inform you in the near future, how they are doing.

Greetings Thomas

Congratulations! Good to hear of the breeding.

Nice picture, have not seen them around here yet, but I am a little less "out there" recently too.

thanks thomas.
cheers charles

hi thomas,
can you tell me hot hard/ soft your water is (in KH)

regards from zurich
farid

Hello Farid,

I do not know exactly how hard my water is, because I never checkd it.
But the measurement from my waterplant says that I have rather soft
water, about 6.5 degree dH. I hope it helps you.

Greetings Thomas

Hello everybody,

one week has pased and I tried all the time to make some pictures from the young elongata in my tank. But most of the time they hide very well and it was imposible to take pictures - until last evening, when one of this little creature swam to the front side to search for food. I could not belive it, but I managed to take a few pictures, although they are not really sharp.
If anyone has some tips how to make good fotos from so little fish, please let me know.

So, and here are some pictures for you

Congratulations on the spawn! Do you have a photo of the whole tank setup that you can share with us?

Hello daryl,

of course do I have a picture of the whole tank



it is a 300 liter tank (110x55x50cm), besides the elongatas there is a group of trigonostigma hengeli some shrimps and a lot of snails in the tank.

Nice looking tank!

Congrats Thomas! lovely tank & fish! What all do you have in the tank?

As for the pics, What kind of camera do you have?I'm not the best to be giving advice but if you have a DSLR try setting it to manual. Set the f stop/aperature to a higher number like 16 or so and the speed up there to, maybe 250-300 or more, experiment with these to find a good balance. The flash should compensate. This will give you a greater depth of field/more area in focus. I also have better luck with manual focus but it takes some practice. Good luck!