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sandiegoryu

Discussion Starter · May 29, 2007 (Edited)

Microrasbora Kubotai 2nd day of having them

CRS

RCS

And a random shot of HM

Criticism welcome! Also I need help on correcting color. How do you do this without just guessing? I don't think I have the right colors on all those pictures...

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epicfish

· #2 · May 29, 2007

Very nice. What camera are you using?

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Color Me Blue

· #3 · May 29, 2007

I dunno Shumpei, but these are some nice shots!

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mr.sandman

· #4 · May 29, 2007

LOVE the CRS shot.

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Cardinal Tetra

· #5 · May 29, 2007

Great pictures! That fish is so pretty!

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Thanks everyone. I'm using a Canon EOS 5D, a Tamron 90mm lens (which is actually mine), and a Speelight 420EX flash. Everything else is my dad's. He's a "professional" photographer. It's more of a hobby in which he makes some extra cash :-D.

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Dkle

· #7 · May 29, 2007

Awesome! I love the metallic sheen on the kubotai!

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sandiegoryu

Discussion Starter · #8 · May 29, 2007

Thanks Dkle. And I forgot to add, does anyone have more info on this fish? I've looked and looked but only find taxonomy information, and stuff like that. How about breeding these guys? I'm guessing it'll be pretty hard to do so but I'd like to try.

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epicfish

· #9 · May 29, 2007

Using a tripod for those shots or not?

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sandiegoryu

Discussion Starter · #10 · May 29, 2007

OK I just found one dead on the floor. Now I know they're jumpers... Not a thing I was hoping for because I have no idea how I'd cover the tank. Well I guess all fish are jumpers. But this is the second day. So something must be wrong with my water or they just like to do it.

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sandiegoryu

Discussion Starter · #11 · May 29, 2007

no tripod. The settings were 1/200 shutter speed, 100 ISO, and 1/32 fstop. With a flash of course.

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epicfish

· #12 · May 29, 2007

Very nice shots.

I'm getting a Tamron 90mm myself soon.

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dufus

· #13 · May 29, 2007

sweet pics, nice fish.
they probally breed the same as a lot of other microrasbos. search forbreeding info on microrasboras spp., not bororas, that may help.

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Matthew Mahling

· #14 · May 29, 2007

Great pics! The Microrasbora Kubotai is georgeous. Where did you get them?
If there's a taps plastic near you you can have a lid cut from twin polycarbonate.

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Jessica

· #15 · May 29, 2007

That second picture is adorable. Looks like he's shedding a little tear with his pouty mouth.

GREAT images!

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Color Me Blue

· #16 · May 29, 2007

Jessica said:
That second picture is adorable. Looks like he's shedding a little tear with his pouty mouth.

Maybe that's the one that jumped out? Suicidal? LOL J/K

Sorry to hear ya lost a fishie Shumpei.

Now go return him to Sam and get another. LOL :tongue:

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sandiegoryu

Discussion Starter · #17 · May 29, 2007

I got the kubotai from a shop in San Diego called Aquatic Warehouse. They sometimes have rare fish and I was just lucky.

I've searched for more information on breeding microrasboras in general and I haven't found much. I've found lots and lots of info on breeding Celestial Danios (otherwise known as Galaxy Rasboras), but it is a danio and not a microrasbora. I found slight information on breeding microrasbora erythromicron but they seem to be more danio-like.

I'm looking especially on more info for water parameters. I know that once I see the female get thin then I need to take out the parents and when the fry are free floating then I need to start feeding them tiny tiny foods which are probably abundant in the tank already. I THINK I need acidic water but I don't know how I'll achieve that without buying an RO filter. I don't want to buy RO water by the gallon too...

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sandiegoryu

Discussion Starter · #18 · May 29, 2007

Hehe ninja'd twice.
Thanks Jessica.

Christin: Well you see it jumped out and I promptly fed it to my dwarf crayfish... So I have no proof that it is dead because it is gone now :-D. 20 min after I popped the body in the tank I checked to see if the body was being eaten and the head was already gone.