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Just playing around with my new macro toy

Eggs 48 hours old:



Eggs 72 hours old:





To be continued...

Amazing photos, Jac. Never mind, though, more significantly, also congratulations on the new inspector eggs!

Are the eggs still with Dad in the cave, or do you have them in a tumbler/incubator?

Cheers, Eric

Awesome photos. I look forward to the updates

bekateen wrote:Amazing photos, Jac. Never mind, though, more significantly, also congratulations on the new inspector eggs!

Are the eggs still with Dad in the cave, or do you have them in a tumbler/incubator?

Cheers, Eric

Thanks Eric. I took the eggs because I don't quite trust this male with the eggs..
This gives me a great opportunity to photograph them up close and personal

Good pics jac, and congratulations on another spawning:-)

Can you tell us about the camera and the lens? These pics are inspiring me to go shopping....!

I think it's a macro lens add-on for an iPhone 6? It really does take great pics, but to take good pics of eggs, you need to be a good breeder!

Jools

Yes, it's a little device for on my iPhone Low costs (actually I was given this one) but great fun!!

Eggs 96 hours old:

Wow, these are awesome!

Jools

Thank you Jools

Wow, that sounds easy enough (except for the egg part perhaps!). On my way to the mall......

Andrew, I don't know if you'll find these at your local store. I just ordered one yesterday and I had to buy it online; there were no local sources I could locate.

Try Googling "iPhone camera macro lens" (no quotation marks needed). You should find them for sale around $5-9 USD, many with free shipping.

This is what I bought: http://www.gearbest.com/mount-holder/pp_205500.html. It's not the same model jac has (at least I don't think so), but it's pretty close.

Cheers

Eggs 120 hours old

Wow! Maybe some we can see some more mesmerizing photos when the eggs hatch?

Last day for the Hypancistrus Inspector eggs, 144 hours 6 days old.

Hi Jac,

Great great great pictures!

Long time ago I visited PC, this is a nice surprise. May I suggest you to repeat the exercise with your L239

Congratulations Jac on a successful hatching, awesome pics also.

spip wrote:Hi Jac,

Great great great pictures!

Long time ago I visited PC, this is a nice surprise. May I suggest you to repeat the exercise with your L239

Wow, that has been a while indeed Please check your inbox, I sent you a message about 4 months ago Just curious!

I lost my breeding male from the Beggini group but I was given another male last week at the CSG convention in England. So fingers crossed! Signs are good

Fry two days old.

Such nice photos. It never ceases to amaze me when I see how complex and detailed even little embryos and hatchling fry can be. Life is splendid.

How many fry do you have? And now that you have these baby inspectors, does it mean my L201 will spawn soon?

Cheers, Eric

bekateen wrote: How many fry do you have? And now that you have these baby inspectors, does it mean my L201 will spawn soon?

Cheers, Eric

I have about 45 at the moment
How old are your L201? I have had these years ago. They tarted to spawn at about 18 months and 6cm in lenght. So they can be young breeders if you take care of them. I think you'll have no problems at all with your L201

jac wrote:I have about 45 at the moment

Wonderful! What a bounty!

jac wrote:How old are your L201? I have had these years ago. They tarted to spawn at about 18 months and 6cm in lenght. So they can be young breeders if you take care of them.

Were yours 6cm SL or TL? My L201 range in size from 55-60mm SL, and there are obvious males and females in the group, based on odontodes and body shape: ID help, please. What did I buy - L201, contradens, or other?. I believe they are wild caught so I don't know their age. I've had my L201 for only one month now; they are just out of quarantine. Obviously they haven't had much time to get into condition so I don't expect them to spawn any time soon; however they were in pretty good shape the day I bought them, considering they were fresh from the wholesaler.

One male already likes to hang out in a real cave, but most of the time, either three or all four of them will hang out in that weird clay rock/cave structure I made... Sometimes two to one cave, but I don't think for spawning reasons; I think when they get startled they just swim to whatever hole they can get into, even if it is already occupied. These are really shallow holes, but the fish seem to prefer to hide these holes, rather than in longer (traditional) cave structures or under wood. Silly plecos!

Cheers, Eric

Hypancistrus Inspector fry 5 days old

I love these photos, jac. I'm still waiting for my macro lens to arrive so I can get better pics of my maccus, and now my C. diphyes. Hopefully soon.

You will have a full house in your tanks pretty soon, as these little ones grow up!

Cheers, Eric

Hi Jac, you finaly received an answer to your mp...

spip wrote:Hi Jac, you finaly received an answer to your mp...

Day 9

Now almost 2 weeks old and it's time to start eating some foods. I will start feeding them from tonight. Their yolk sacks are almost dissolved and the little fish are complete in formation. Now all they have to do is grow into nice adults