My new fish

Tomoko Schum

Tomoko Schum

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Hi y'all,

My new carpenter wrasse (paracheilinus carpenteri) just came out of hiding. It's not a very good picture, but I would like to share it anyways. I never thought that taking pictures of fish and corals was so difficult.

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Tomoko
 
Thank you, Mary.
The picture really does not do any justice to him. He is a truly beautiful fish. He is a type of Flasher wrasses. They are such a beautiful reef safe fish. Greatly overlooked in my opinion. John Newby got this one for me. The Aquarium Shop also got me a small female, too. They will form a harem and school together. I would like to get another one like a MacCoskers wrasse, too:

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You can read about Flashers here if you are interested:
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-08/ht/index.php

Hard-rock -

Thank you for the link. The part of the difficulty is the camera I am using at the moment. Sony Cyber-shot is a great point and shoot camera for taking pictures of people and scenaries, but it sucks for aquarium pictures. I miss Nikon Coolpix 5200 which allows me to set a number of things manually. It has superb macro capability, too. I don't remember having a lag on the shutter.

Tomoko
 
I use a cheap tri-pod that I got at Wal-mart and set the timer it makes a diffance .That way the camera is perfectly still
 
I have a nice tripod that my father gave me, but I did not use it. I had to grab a camera and take a picture quickly before he hides back in the rocks again. No time to take the flash off or set up a tripod. I also lost my head seeing the fish which hid himself for a week.

Melev also said that he uses a timer once he gets it to focus correctly, and I would like to try that on fish.

Tomoko
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9091316#post9091316 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tomoko Schum
I had to grab a camera and take a picture quickly before he hides back in the rocks again. No time to take the flash off or set up a tripod. I also lost my head seeing the fish which hid himself for a week.


Tomoko
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I can just see you running around trying to get the picture. I have done the same thing..lol I know you were glad to see it again too!
 
yeah, I had to literally run around the house looking for my camera since my teenage daugher always walks off with it. Reilly and I bought her a nice camera for her birthday, but she perfers ours. I might as well give her the Sony and get a good Nikon or Cannon.

I am really glad to see the carpenter wrasse again. I thought I lost him somehow. I saw him diving into the rocks when I released him into the tank, and I remembered 8Ball tellling me that his fire goby ran into a rock and died on the spot as he put him into his tank. However, I could not find him dead anywhere and there was no fish jerky on the floor, either. I was just contemplating buying another pretty one that John got this week. Then he showed up. He must have overhead me talking to John about replacing him.

Tomoko
 
I have a coral-banded shrimp that I thoight was died and way gone .I had not seen him in maybe 2 months then on evening out he came .It is amazing were things can hide in a reef tank .
 
Yeah, things hide really well in our reef tanks for sure. My peppermint shrimp used to come out in the dark, but they quit coming out after my daughter put a Royal Gramma into the tank during Christmas. I thought the shrimp were all eaten, but while I was searching for the wrasse, I got a glimpse of them crawling around in the narrow space between the bottom of rocks and the sand bed.

Tomoko
 
Tomoko, Did you ever get any sleep last night? I noticed where you posted at 1am ? and again at 6am....Goodness you gotta be tired...lol... It must have been one of those nights...haha..I hate it when that happens! Then the next day I am dragging. Your brain never stops!
 
Was I up that late? It must have been when I dragged myself into my bedroom after falling asleep for awhile on the sofa reading or watching TV (or trying to, lol). Trying to read sideways doesn't works for me any more. I manage to read maybe a page or two... I used to burn a midnight oil often caught up in reading. I often find Reilly dozing off on another sofa, too. We act like a couple of old folks, don't we?! I cannot stay asleep past 5:30 AM. I cling to my pillow for another 15 minutes, but I eventually give up...

Tomoko
 
My flasher wrasse started flashing yesterday. His color changes and brightens up greatly for a few seconds when he flashes. Then I realized that my wrasse is actually Yellowfin Flasher wrasse (P. flavianalis) instead of Carpenter's flasher wrasse (P. carpenteri.) He looks just like these guys:

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If you have a copy of Scott Micheal's Reef Aquarium Fish, the very fish is shown on the cover of the book. I wonder what the other little one really is.

Tomoko
 
Mary,

I was hoping to get the McCosker's Flasher Wrasse next. I don't know when that will come in. Both John and Pete are looking to see if that species is listed in their order lists.

With the way the wrasses are turning out, I don't know what I have until I try them out. I really don't know if the second Flasher I got is really P. carpenteri.

John had three pretty Flasher wrasses this weekend. I have to check closely to see what he really got.

Tomoko
 
Tomoko,
If you have 2 wrasses in one tank, make sure you have "exit holes" covered up. IME they are much more likely to jump out when threre are more than one.
Wrasses are cool fish....I love the way they swim.
 
I installed bird netting over the tank so that flasher wrasses cannot jump out. I have been told that they can jump out from a tiniest opening.

I made two frames (really like a picture frame that fits the tank opening snugly) out of white egg crate material. I now want to paint the egg crate black unless I can find a sheet of black egg crate material fairly inexpensively. I should be able to paint the egg crate frame since the frame does not come into contact with water. Does anyone know what paint is good to use for this?

Tomoko

Tomoko
 
The egg crate is really not directly under the light. It looks like a picture frame without a picture. Instead of stretching a canvas over the frame, I got a bird netting stretched over it. The egg crate sits on the upper tank molding. The netting is for the exterior use and I have never seen it degrades after many years of use under the sun.

Tomoko
 
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