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Harold tells me the tank-bred Botia histrionica from the Czech Republic came in REAL nice!

Martin.

Martin Thoene wrote:Harold tells me the tank-bred Botia histrionica from the Czech Republic came in REAL nice!

Martin.

Hoorayyy...
Im going by to buy them today. I won't be taking them home but I want to put dibs down on the seven I want (Thats cool right? Five and seven? Too many? Six? Not adding striata... just histies and rostrata)

Go for it!

Martin.

TWO DAYS MAN!!!
Unless I'm cleaved in half by a lightning bolt or I die in my sleep I'm finally going to have the Histrionicas...

After trying since like... I don't even remember... March?

try living in northern ontario and trying to get "X" loach.
you will be waiting "like forever"
I can't remember when I got my 2nd batch of histies/rosies.
It was a long wait.
Whenever I go on vacation I try to get new loaches.

Thank god for Harold

newshound wrote:try living in northern ontario and trying to get "X" loach.
you will be waiting "like forever"
I can't remember when I got my 2nd batch of histies/rosies.
It was a long wait.
Whenever I go on vacation I try to get new loaches.

Thank god for Harold

Yes. and thank goodness for Chef Boyardi

I just picked up six histrionica of the CB Czech batch.

SOOOO perfect. Just insane. They were actually orange, not yellow. Crazy stuff...

He got some nice killies and stuff too...

You still own a camera right?

Martin.

Martin Thoene wrote:You still own a camera right?

Martin.

Ya... funny thing. Went to snap a pic and the batteries are dead... currently recharging... pics in a couple hours

And he's ordering me some Puntius Filamentosa out of Thailand where they come in nice... Must have been in a good mood today I got a crazy deal on the loaches I dare not repeat for fear of jealousy...

OK well I got the batteries recharged. Unfortunately the Histies will not let me get close to the tank... they ate bloodworms though...

This is the only picture I could get that isn't multicolor blurrs... You can see the orange histie on the right with rostratas on the left... I watched the tank for a good two minutes thinking they were awfully small clowns until I noticed they were the histies. Couldn't have been happer. One has a black line all the way on the back and polkadots on the sides



Its all thimble-sized stuff. The Ram in the background was only 3.5" when I measured her (in the tank Im not mean) about a month ago...

Blurry but amazing. What are they feeding them, 100% beta-carotene?

Martin.

When they look this good, its best not to ask questions




I imagine when they let me focus my shots by staying still for more than half a second the pics will look even better

At the moment I'm having to lead my shots a-la B-17 gunner and shoot at an area that will be full of loach when my picture gets there

The anubias is in focus... but the loach isn't...

Use The Force young angel-walker......focus on that Anubias, back off about an inch, and wait till they swim past in front of it.

Martin.

that's what I did.
Its a matter of shutter speed. If the fish is swimming at 12"/sec and my shutter speed is about 100ms, but the fish moves fast enough that from one 10th of a second to the next he's not in the same spot, I can't get a good shot, and if I change the shuter speed with this camera I have to take a wider shot or it wont come out, so its a big blurr or a small dot... unless they stay still or I get a better camera

you need the super glue...

...or mix iron filings in the flake and get a big magnet.

Martin.