My new killies! Fundulopanchax Walkeri GH2/74

**ruyle** · 27th May 2005, 11:12

Originally Posted by Piscesgirl

The picture enlarges for me

Do you maybe have popups blocked? (maybe it's treated as a pop up?)?

No, dumkin Bill didn't click to enlarge the window

The first click has
it the same size....woops. BTW, nice cropping job, the squarish picture
looks like you took it with a medium format camera

Bill

**Piscesgirl** · 27th May 2005, 18:35

BTW, nice cropping job, the squarish picture
looks like you took it with a medium format camera

Thank you

Not sure what a medium format camera is but it's nice to look like one knows what they are doing every now and then (and photography is a foreign language to me ... I just try my best to aim and shoot!).

**Piscesgirl** · 5th Jun 2005, 02:03

Another Baby update! He's getting so pretty!

Clickable images again:

**ruyle** · 5th Jun 2005, 02:26

Deborah,
I think it's too late, you've gotten the killy-bug! I just got the eggs 2 days
ago, can't wait for them to hatch!

Bill

**Piscesgirl** · 5th Jun 2005, 02:41

Hehe! Can't help it that Baby is so cute -- and he stays where I can see him (Papa doesn't). He seems to be hanging out with the younger, slimmer female a lot, now. She also stays in view.

I just got the eggs 2 days
ago, can't wait for them to hatch!

Please keep me updated! Can't wait to see pictures of them eventually

**Piscesgirl** · 10th Jun 2005, 06:38

Well, Baby's tail has a tear

I guess he's beginning to spar with Papa. I hope they don't get into it too bad.

Baby is quite the little piggy -- when there is food he's the first one there and he eats til his belly is slightly bulging! He's still maintaining his more social personality and stays where I can see him, mostly - which I'm happy about

**ruyle** · 10th Jun 2005, 08:34

I'm getting damn envious!

Mine are due to hatch around about the
20th

Bill

**Piscesgirl** · 10th Jun 2005, 10:03

I'm getting damn envious! Mine are due to hatch around about the
20th

That's not too long! I hope you get a good bunch of fry

**ruyle** · 10th Jun 2005, 10:44

Originally Posted by Piscesgirl

That's not too long! I hope you get a good bunch of fry

Thanks, Deborah, I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Bill

**Piscesgirl** · 11th Jun 2005, 23:42

More updates of Baby! His tail appears better. He stayed very still for me, but my hands won't stay still...

Clickable images, again:

**whuntley** · 12th Jun 2005, 04:41

I, too, lack a steady hand, Deborah. It is particularly awful with a tiny digital camera with no weight or inertia to resist the shaking.

Unfortunately, a tripod is out of the question when you are shooting targets of opportunity in a big tank.

My partial solution was to get a camera with an Image-Stabilized lens. I'm still learning to use my Canon S1 IS, but the 10X zoom would be utterly worthless without the stabilizing feature. It is truly eerie to see how still things get through the viewfinder when the IS feature is turned on!

Mine was lightly used, but like brand new, still in the original box with all the goodies plus a nice camera bag for US$220. It even had a 100% money-back return privilege! [The seller will only get it back when he pries it from my cold dead fingers!

]

Despite the IS, I have taken gobs of worthless, blurry pics while learning to use it. When I get better, I'll go back to putting some in my gallery space. Maybe I will show you some of Kho's E. singa, all six of whom are growing nicely and looking prettier by the day. [Pulling eggs and getting really tiny babies, too.]

Cheers,

Wright

**Piscesgirl** · 12th Jun 2005, 10:59

I'll have to look into that stabilizing lens, Wright -- sounds like just what I need. Unfortunately, I had to buy a new push mower today -- my other one died

Friend tried to fix it but thinks the ignition wire burned out. Not something I can put off being I have about 3 cleared acres (riding mower for most except fenced dog yard where riding mower won't go through) and the grass seems to grow more than an inch a day (I kid you not!).

Maybe I will show you some of Kho's E. singa, all six of whom are growing nicely and looking prettier by the day. [Pulling eggs and getting really tiny babies, too.]

Yes -- please post them! Will be nice to see

**ruyle** · 24th Jun 2005, 10:12

Well, Deborah,
I guess I'll have to comfort myself with your pictures: the eggs from Japan
were a no-go for hatching

After poring over the peat for close to an
hour using magnification, I found no intact eggs, zip. Talking to another
forumer, he hasn't had much luck from this breeder, either. It's always
a gamble with eggs sent from afar....

Bill

**whuntley** · 24th Jun 2005, 11:06

Bill

The guy who used to run the walkeri GH2 program for KCC is just across the border in GA from you. I'd bet David Ramsey still has a surplus of fish and eggs if you want premium stock of this species. E-mail at [email protected]. Tell him I said to give you some fish or eggs. and to recruit you to a 2-year commitment to keep them going for KCC.

David lives in Lawrenceville GA, I think.

Cheers

Wright

**ruyle** · 24th Jun 2005, 12:06

Wright,
I'll email him, thanks!

Bill

**whuntley** · 24th Jun 2005, 12:14

Deborah,

They are too expensive to compare with your mower problem, but here's a look at some digicams with IS.

http://www.digicamhelp.com/digital-c...stabilization/

My Canon is the model just replaced by the S2 (in the upper right corner). That's partly why I could get it for $200. 3.2 MP gives me all the pixels I need, as long as I still am taking blurry pictures.

The new Sony DSCH1 looks interesting. Unfortunately, you are stuck with Memory Stick (the digicam memory equivalent of Beta Max VCR tapes).

Read the reviews if you get interested, and then haunt e-bay until you find one with a very badly-written title, so almost no one bids (which is what I did).

Wright

**Piscesgirl** · 24th Jun 2005, 18:37

Sorry about your eggs, Bill

D.Ramsey is where my killies came from. I don't know if he was actually at the auction or just sent the fish...

I'll check out those cameras...

**Piscesgirl** · 3rd Jul 2005, 04:34

Baby update! He is the friendliest fish I have

I guess he knows where his food comes from.

**ruyle** · 4th Jul 2005, 23:07

Deborah,
"Baby" is starting to look really grownup, now

Admit it, you're hooked on
killies!

Bill

**Piscesgirl** · 5th Jul 2005, 00:15

He does look grown up now

But, he's less colorful than his Papa. I think that may be because Papa is the dominant male?

I'll admit I really like Baby and the fact that I can keep Killies in smaller tanks -- and how friendly Baby is. The females really aren't afraid of me, either, but Baby actually usually will come to face me if I stare into the tank. I just wish that whole peat thing wasn't so complicated

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