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I didn’t realize that fish have a stressful life also. It was thunder and lightning on Saturday night, and the mother Jack Dempsey was trying to jump out from her tank but it has a cover and she hurt herself badly. The next morning she looked like she was blinded and started to turn white. Bo said she was dying, and to think back I think she was trying to kill herself. I don’t think the thunder and lightning has anything to do with her bizarre behavior. Lee was sad to watch her dying, and realized that we never did give her a name. May seems like a nice name for her, and she passed away this morning. The photo below was taken on March 18, 2012.
Lee made a stone for her burial ground and her final resting place is in my garden. RIP May.
Another strange thing is my cabbages, what just happened here?
All photos were taken with CanonT2i, EF50mm f/1.4 USM lens.
Correction notice: The video should read Long Tail Comets and not Butterfly Koi
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I finally have a chance to do a video of my sister’s Butterfly Koi long tail comets. She gave us 2 long tail Comets, 1 Koi and a few Comets after her pump died on Tuesday. She doesn’t seem to have much luck with her pump, one died last Summer and she lost most of her Koi. She was devastated then and had to go out and buy a new pump the next morning. She is giving up her fish pond this time, and will be covering it up with dirt.
The long tail comets seem to get along with the 7 month old Jack Dempsey Fry and their new home is a 55 gallon aquarium.
The Jack Dempsey Fry aquariums are a lot of work for Bo to take care. He has 4 tanks (one 55 gallon, two 30 gallon, and one 10 gallon) that he constantly has to change the water. Lee’s Betta fish is a lot easy to care for, she has this one for a while now and she could change the water herself.
The Betta fish is also known as the Siamese fighting fish or Pla Kad, and a popular species of freshwater aquarium fish. Back in Laos and Thailand they would fight these fish. I guess very much like a cock fight but might be more for kids than adults, Bo used to fight them when he was little. The wild ancestors of the Betta fish are native to the rice paddies of Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia. This one is a male, kind of strange that the male species are a lot prettier than the female and it goes for birds of feather also. It makes me wonder about the human specie, perhaps that’s why some females have to put on so much makeup.
Photos were taken with CanonT2i, EF50mm f/1.4 and EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens.
The video clips were shot with CanonT2i, EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens, tripod mounted.
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The Jack Dempsey Fry are 16 week old, or roughly about 4 month old. Bo gave a few away to his friends 2 weeks ago and they are big enough to go to their new home.
The lighter color ones are male and darker ones are female. The water is very cloudy and Bo changed the water right before I took the picture, so it should settle down in a day or so.
This one is a female, as you can see it’s very dark and colorful. It is the same size that Bo bought the mother Jack Dempsey from a fish store, and he got the father Jack Dempsey from a Chinese Restaurant.
I think these are males, the male has a lighter color stomach.
In a 30 gallon fish tank the mother Jack Dempsey has been busy. I think this is her 6th set of eggs and the last 4 times had been unsuccessful since they were laid on a different rock. Bo switched the rock back to the original one and hopefully this will be a successful batch, which means he has to find a new home for the 600+ fry soon to make room for the new hatch.
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I kind of give up on the idea of posting my photo exif data since it is so time-consuming when some of my posts have many photos and I normally use 2 lens where ever I go. I think the best way to learn is to practice and shoot in different environment and lighting. I have the hardest time shooting indoor especially when I don’t like to use flash. I have to shoot in high ISO and have to live with some digital noise. I think having some noise is better than having a blurry image.
As for the Jack Dempsey Fry, they are 11 week old now and Bo actually counted them when he transported them to a 55 gallon tank the other day. The old tank (30 gallon) was leaking and he has 645 Fry and 1 died when it got to the big tank. The Jack Dempsey Fry aquarium sits in the living room hallway, and the mommy and daddy Jack Dempsey are back in the house now. They are in the big tank on the right hand side and Lee’s fish tank is the small one in front of it.
The Fry love the bigger tank and travel in schooling.
I think Max got used to having so many fish around, but I can’t say that they got used to him (I’m saving Max’s image for my October Idioms photo-hunt.)
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