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Stunning fish, I'm not sure what my next tank is going to bring, buy I am certainly going to step up my fish game. Should make it easier to convince the misses on the new tank... (she thinks plants are boring) 
120 Gallon African Tetra Aquarium
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Beautiful photos! Were you using a lens?
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Pretty sure my next tank is going to be a 180 that is either totally plant free or few plants. Just angelfish (maybe altums) a few other cichlids and a big school of tetras and some cool driftwood or something.Stunning fish, I'm not sure what my next tank is going to bring, buy I am certainly going to step up my fish game. Should make it easier to convince the misses on the new tank... (she thinks plants are boring)
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If you click the photos it should bring you to my Flickr account which shows exactly what camera and lens I am using. Often if it is just tank shots I use my iPhone but when I do macros I am using a Nikon D750 and in this case a Nikkor 60mm lens. I have no idea what I am doing with photography though so I just take 200 pictures and usually a few come out OK.
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Wow, some beautiful fish and plants. I have never had success with Madagascar lace. I have grown crinum and other apon before successfully. The crinum I had got really large.
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Another video of the 120. Trying (and failing) to capture the brilliance of the Alestopetersius brichardi. My photos with my Nikon do a much better job capturing the blue iridescent scales than my iPhone videos do. They are getting even more intense in color now.
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Funny, I do theh same, point the camera, take a lot of photos and hope a few come out.
The blue really looks nice in the video, I can only imagine what it looks like in person. Did you purchase the fish from the LFS or they online orders?
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Since my last post of photos some of my Alestopetersius brichardi have further intensified in color. The red in their fins is deeper, the reflective blue scales on their upper body show up all the time now and their faces and lower bodies show some red and yellow. I have seen that The Wet Spot is currently selling them as Alestopetersius brichardi "Blue Form" and have seen others sell them as "Electric Blue". I also recently saw some video of a cherry red type on Facebook so if you are ever wanting to keep this fish and order them online it is important to know they seem to be two distinct species.
Anyway they are super skittish and very fast so these are the best photos I can get of them. I'll try again in the future and see if I can do better.
Alestopetersius brichardi by Kaveh Maguire, on Flickr
Alestopetersius brichardi by Kaveh Maguire, on Flickr
Alestopetersius brichardi by Kaveh Maguire, on Flickr
Anyway they are super skittish and very fast so these are the best photos I can get of them. I'll try again in the future and see if I can do better.
Alestopetersius brichardi by Kaveh Maguire, on FlickrAlestopetersius brichardi by Kaveh Maguire, on FlickrAlestopetersius brichardi by Kaveh Maguire, on Flickr
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I hope Asian fish farms will someday produce them commercially, like they do with Phenacogrammus interuptus.
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I guess I never posted this. This is a male Phenacogrammus sp. Fantastique I took a photo of back on June 5 when they first started to show a bit of color after coming out of quarantine and spending some time in the 120.
young male Phenacogrammus sp. Fantastique by Kaveh Maguire, on Flickr
Exactly a month later on July 5 I took another photo to show how much they changed in just a month. They really grow quickly and start to take on their adult coloration when you put them in a larger aquarium. Huge difference.
Young male Phenacogrammus sp. Fantastique by Kaveh Maguire, on Flickr
And finally a photo of one of the females. Not perfectly focused but you can see how little color she has in comparison to the male. I was hoping that the females would be just as bright as the males like Phenacogrammus aurantiacus but it seems they are more like the majority of African Alestids where the females are pretty drab. Still she does have more color than many Alestopetersius females have so I am interested to see what they will look like when full grown.
Young female Phenacogrammus sp. Fantastique by Kaveh Maguire, on Flickr
It looks like all of my Moliwe kribs are dead. I am pretty sure murdered by the young Steatocranus. I never saw much violence between them but it just seems too much of a coincedence for all three to die so quickly (two I am certain are dead and the third I just found a spine with a little meat still left on it but I don't see the third krib so I am pretty sure it was her).
A bummer as I had them for over 4 years and they all had a pretty solid truce going all those years in the 46 gallon but it just shows that violence is not necessarily dispersed in a larger tank when it comes to cichlids. Sometimes you are better off with more fish in a smaller tank. At the end of the day the focus on this tank is the tetras so I will not be introducing any more cichlids. Curious to see if the Steatocranus will all get along with each other or start turning on each other as they reach sexual maturity.
young male Phenacogrammus sp. Fantastique by Kaveh Maguire, on FlickrExactly a month later on July 5 I took another photo to show how much they changed in just a month. They really grow quickly and start to take on their adult coloration when you put them in a larger aquarium. Huge difference.
Young male Phenacogrammus sp. Fantastique by Kaveh Maguire, on FlickrAnd finally a photo of one of the females. Not perfectly focused but you can see how little color she has in comparison to the male. I was hoping that the females would be just as bright as the males like Phenacogrammus aurantiacus but it seems they are more like the majority of African Alestids where the females are pretty drab. Still she does have more color than many Alestopetersius females have so I am interested to see what they will look like when full grown.
Young female Phenacogrammus sp. Fantastique by Kaveh Maguire, on FlickrIt looks like all of my Moliwe kribs are dead. I am pretty sure murdered by the young Steatocranus. I never saw much violence between them but it just seems too much of a coincedence for all three to die so quickly (two I am certain are dead and the third I just found a spine with a little meat still left on it but I don't see the third krib so I am pretty sure it was her).
A bummer as I had them for over 4 years and they all had a pretty solid truce going all those years in the 46 gallon but it just shows that violence is not necessarily dispersed in a larger tank when it comes to cichlids. Sometimes you are better off with more fish in a smaller tank. At the end of the day the focus on this tank is the tetras so I will not be introducing any more cichlids. Curious to see if the Steatocranus will all get along with each other or start turning on each other as they reach sexual maturity.
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Yup. I use Equilibrium and Alkaline/Acid Buffer from Seachem.
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