What Underwater Camera Or Webcam To Use?

I would like to add an underwater camera to my tank to get better photos and video of my fish. In Joey's ( king of DIY) you tube videos he often has a "fishcam" (though i think it might be a camcorder and not a webcam) Wondering if others have tried this.

I am working on a raspberry pi project (essentially a tiny internet connected computer) and would like to connect a webcam to it. That would be my ideal use case.

Any suggestions?

 

Hi there,
I think Joey uses a GoPro (Correct me if I'm wrong) to film his tanks. I personally have a GoPro myself however, never used it for aquarium purposes, I use it to record all my adventures on the beach and stuff.

 

You can use a GoPro, I have one that i have used in the tank, on the dog, boat, guns, scuba diving, and in the car. They actually work great.

 

GoPros come with goos attachments to make filming easier

 

Interesting... ok that would work, but wondering if there's a way to use the picamera I already have. It's a little camera on a circuit board. Maybe I could DIY? Some clear pvc pipe and stick the picamera inside it?

 

is it a waterproof camera? you could create a selfie stick kind of thing

 

If the PVC is too thick you may have an issue with controlling the camera. The GoPro wireless connection gives out somewhere before 2 ft of water, we played with that at work one day in the pool just to see how deep we could get it before we lost the connection with a iPhone

 

It's not water proof. Trying to make it water proof.

I may just put it inside a zip lock bag for now, and not completely submerge it.