Macro photos of my perculas with eggs!!

[luisgo]

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.

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:

 

[ChrisOz]

Fantastic pictures.

Thanks for posting.

 

[Tony B (UK)]

Great photos, very nice. What lense and body?

 

[luisgo]

Nikon D60 with a Nikon manual macro 105mm AI-S. This lens was used for film cameras. No mettering with the D60.

 

[IslandCrow]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing these.

 

[Brett9917]

Very nice photos and congrats on the success in your aquarium too!!

 

[kookie_guy]

holy cow, check out the teeth on that clown. lol

 

[Nyghtfire]

wow amazing pictures.

 

[yluhnserk]

nice sharing .nice pictures.

 

[luisgo]

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.

 

[spirou]

nice quality photos
what is the distance between lens and the clown fish ?

 

[luisgo]

The eggs where at more or less 7" from the glass. All these photos where croped like 50%.

 

[spirou]

thanks
How are they?
Do you have fish that may threaten them?

 

[Zero Cool]

Very nice work! Were you bouncing the light from the external flash or is this straight-on?

 

[luisgo]

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]

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]

Very cool! Nice shots, thanks for sharing!

 

[luisgo]

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]

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!

Here is the Colt coral where they have the eggs

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

 

[Just2Many]

Nice Clowns And Colt