Oil_Fan

Here are a few pics of my tank inhabitants. I'll try to get a few more in the next number of days.

One of my emerald crabs and an astrea snail:



My fire shrimp:



And the newest addition to my tank...a royal gramma baslett:

Shawnie

amazing pics!!!! salt water tanks are so interesting...thanks for sharing!!!!!!

capekate

hi Oil Fan
love your photo of the Gramma Basslet... wow... what bright colors! That fish is really beautiful.... And tho I am not a big fan of shrimp or snails in a tank, I have to say that the fire red shrimp sure was a pretty one!
I agree.. SW fish are truly amazing I just love looking at SW fish photos.... Thanks for sharing.

Lucy

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

I agree about sw tanks, they are so interesting.

sgould

Great pics!

COBettaCouple

Beautiful!

offminded

very cool crab...how big do they get?

Oil_Fan

According to LiveAquaria, they can get up to 2.5". Both of mine are around 1" right now.

Oil_Fan

A couple more pics of my fish that I took today:

One of my clowns:


And another one of my royal gramma. Probably my best pic that I've taken of my tank. Yes I'm proud!! :

angelfish220

That is great. I love salt water tanks, but dont have the time or budget to start one. So I just get to look at others gourgous tanks!

Martinismommy

Holy Moly! Where in the Heck did you learn to take fish photo's! LOVE the Gramma pic!

Oil_Fan

Finally figured out my camera and how to do close ups!! heh

Well that and looking at your photos pretty much made me look on how to improve mine!!

agsansoo

Nice close ups !

Peterpiper

Love the pic's
You may want to rethink the crab. 2 1/2" crab with claws would love the fish and shrimp.... er but not the way you do..

COBettaCouple

Beautiful fish and beautiful shots of them!

Oil_Fan

My newest fish. And what a deal they were. My LFS had big sale this past weekend. All livestock 50% off. Picked my yellow tang for $20 and a flame angel for $30.

Hopefully I find out what that brown spot is on the tang but I have another thread about that already. But enjoy the pics:

Peterpiper

Love the pic's! now Martinismommy has some competition LOL
Do you feed the tang some Nori?

Shawnie

ok do tell how u get such clear closeups! superb fish!

Martinismommy

Hey now! I'm happy people have looked and learned how to capture the beauty of our finbabies.....

Great pics of both the kids...I LOVE the flamer! Be careful though, they are JUMPERS!

Oil_Fan

Peterpiper: No. Right now I've been using some shrimp brine and mysis brine. I've also been giving them a bit of emerald entre and putting dried sea weed on a clip. They're stuff I put out last night was pretty much all gone by the time I got home. The other reason for the emerald entre is to give some other stuff for my emerald crabs which I had to move out of my main tank as they were enjoying my mushrooms and polyps a little too much!!

And thanks Shawnie. For my camera, it took me a bit to find the setting. It had a macro setting and there was an option there for closeups. I set that to be on when I was using the macro. Other cameras just use the tulip icon to represent that. After that it was just turn on the flash and turn the camera at an angle so the flash won't show. Then hold down the button half way to get it focused and wait in a spot where the fish tend to swim by. The click when they come into frame.

And it was seeing how good Martin'smommy pics were got me to looking for how to do with my camera.

Oil_Fan

Thanks. And I've read that about flame angels. I'll have to put something at the back of the tank. The canopy doesn't cover that area. Right now I'm fine with him in my quarantine tank. He isn't going anywhere in there. heh

COBettaCouple

I love the flame angels & you've got a great looking one there!

Jesses89

Martinismommy was right... how do you take such great fish pics?

i really like that pic of the Royal gramma...

Give us some tips?
anything?

Oil_Fan

Thanks for your comments.

As for how am I getting such great pics....the only thing I changed was that I started using my macro mode. In there is a setting to use the closeup feature. Basically it tells the camera that the subject is only going to be a foot or 2 away.

Some cameras have this setting right on main dial. Other cameras such as mine (an Olympus) put inside the macro setting. The macro setting is right on my main dial. I had to then bring up the menu and then I found it.

The other thing to do is to take the pictures at an angle. That way the flash doesn't show up in the photo.

Jesses89

ill have to check my camera to see if it has that... i have no idea if it does.. maybe i should read the manual?

it does have scenary mode or whatever... i usually use the "behind glass" option... but thanks for the suggestion...
Ill see of my dumb GE A730 has the micro lens feature......... i told my gf i wanted a canon... but noooooo

andy65

Usually there is a little pictures of a flower,that is almost always the macro setting button or mode.

reading the manual to your camera is always a good thing.