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    Is it due to the flashes??

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    Hello,

    For the past few days, I've been taking photographs of my tropical fishes with a digicam with flash. Does anyone know if taking photos of the fishes with flashes is bad for the fish?

    I had 1 longfin Holland Ram, but it just passed away in the evening I'm not sure what's the cause.. IT had lost some colour & had been hiding behind the wooden branch for the past 2 days..

    I have another smaller Ram & yesterday, it had changed colour to very dark colour.. a lot of black.. It's never been like this b4.. sometimes it would lose a bit of colour & then regain it's colour in a few days, but it has necer gotten so dark in colour b4!

    Is it due to the flashes? When I took photos of the smaller ram, it doesn't move away, it doesn't seem to have been startled or affected by the flash.. it simply stays there..
    it's the same for the Holland Ram, it didn't looked like it was startled..

    So my question is Is it due to the flashes??

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    no, its never due to the flashing, unless u got discus and they die from shock (which normally scare the hell out of them and they start dashing ard the tank and hurting themselves)

    our local strain of ram r weak.. they r sensitive to the tank condition.. they cld be oredi be sick when u bought them.. certains r hard to determine. coz there is too many factors involved (climatization, water parameter, sickness)

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    Yeah...fishes are not that easily susceptible to flash lights popping outside the tank. My discus can even pose for me when I'm trying to take photos of other fishes.

    Most prob, you have a problem with the water. Then again, it might be stressed. Colour changes of the fishes are often due to stress and lack of hiding places. Do allow your fishes some hiding places in the form of plank thickets or caves and pots.
    Michael Lim
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