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luisgo
11/25/2010, 10:56 AM
On Wednesday 17, I discovered that my percula clowns had eggs in a rock again. This is not the first time. The first photo was on that day with my Nikon D60, Nikkor zoom lens 18-135mm with the camera flash, 1/80 sec., f5.6, handheld.

The first days is like a mass of orange eggs.

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/2010-11-17_4s.jpg

Yesterday Wednesday 24 the eggs were almost ready to swim! You can see the eyes and are blue. Here are the best of close to 140 photos. These are with an external flash, with tripod, Nikkor AI-S manual focus macro 105mm (no mettering in my D60), 1/160 sec., f/11.

This morning they were all gone :(

Enjoy :spin3:

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/2010-11-24_133s.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/2010-11-24_131s.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/2010-11-24_128s.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/2010-11-24_120s.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/2010-11-24_85s.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/2010-11-24_78s.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/2010-11-24_75s.jpg

ChrisOz
11/25/2010, 11:15 AM
Fantastic pictures.

Thanks for posting.

Tony B (UK)
11/25/2010, 01:47 PM
Great photos, very nice. What lense and body?

luisgo
11/25/2010, 03:01 PM
Nikon D60 with a Nikon manual macro 105mm AI-S. This lens was used for film cameras. No mettering with the D60.

IslandCrow
11/25/2010, 09:21 PM
Very cool! Thanks for sharing these.

Brett9917
11/26/2010, 12:10 AM
Very nice photos and congrats on the success in your aquarium too!!

kookie_guy
11/26/2010, 10:35 PM
holy cow, check out the teeth on that clown. lol

Nyghtfire
11/27/2010, 08:19 AM
wow amazing pictures.

yluhnserk
11/27/2010, 11:10 AM
nice sharing .nice pictures.

luisgo
11/28/2010, 08:17 PM
very nice. never seen eyes looking out of eggs. do you breed them?

No, they just lay eggs every two or three months in their home which is the base of a huge colt coral in my 125 gallon tank. This is the Colt. As you can see the other fish make a feast with the eggs.

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/2009-09-20_8s6-1.jpg

spirou
11/29/2010, 10:42 AM
nice quality photos :)
what is the distance between lens and the clown fish ?

luisgo
11/29/2010, 12:12 PM
The eggs where at more or less 7" from the glass. All these photos where croped like 50%.

spirou
11/30/2010, 02:39 AM
thanks:)
How are they?
Do you have fish that may threaten them?

Zero Cool
11/30/2010, 09:49 AM
Very nice work! Were you bouncing the light from the external flash or is this straight-on?

luisgo
11/30/2010, 04:58 PM
I was shooting with the camera in a tripod and the flash in the right hand aiming direct to the fish. I was experimenting with the flash at different distances and looking at the results in the lcd display to see from where it resulted in a correct exposure.

Eggs were eaten by the other fish in he tank...

Christian_S
11/30/2010, 05:18 PM
wow very good marco shots luisgo !!

I hope you post this pics in All reefs ,that will be a very good contribution for this forum

swjim
11/30/2010, 10:52 PM
Very cool! Nice shots, thanks for sharing!

luisgo
12/01/2010, 08:22 AM
Christian the photos were posted in All Reefs the same day that they were posted here. The title of the post there is "Fotos macro de mis perculas y sus huevos!"

luisgo
12/02/2010, 05:55 PM
I don't know if I have rabbits or fish in my tank :love2: These are from yesterday just 15 days after the first set of photos!

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/2010-12-01_60s.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/2010-12-01_59s.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/2010-12-01_57s.jpg

Here is the Colt coral where they have the eggs

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/2010-12-01_2s.jpg

For those interested in the camera setup here are some photos taken by my daughter.

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/CIMG8507s.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/CIMG8505s.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc142/luisgo/CIMG8513s.jpg

Just2Many
12/02/2010, 06:00 PM
Nice Clowns And Colt

Lego&Jacub
12/10/2010, 11:07 AM
Amazing pictures... love how you can get right in there with them!!!

60G
12/10/2010, 02:02 PM
very nice tank