One of the bonuses of a more natural looking aquarium is that your photos tend to look a lot better. I'm afraid that I am not much of a photographer so don't expect an award winning display of photo's but I thought I'd share a few with you anyway.
Below is the tank that pretty much all of the pictures on this site are from. I have been keeping aquariums for over 25 year and have built a number of scapes but I only have pictures from the last two years. I had many more but all have been lost over the years. No great loss as I'm a pretty average photographer :)
So this wall tank, bookshelves and the right side door were built shortly after moving into our home. It changed nd ordinary wall into a focal point for the room and as a bonus it helps deaden the space acoustically. This has dramatically improved the room for one of my other hobbies as an amateur audiophile.
The opening for the aquarium happens to be perfect for the flat screen as well so if we sell the home it should be easy to accommodate the new owners regardless of their taste.
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| Here is a couple of shots of a bumblebee cat fish. These little guys only have two speeds and this shows both of them. | This is a dwarf style that only gets to be 3 inches. I have one of these in every tank I've owned for at least 15 years. |
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| Here is a young Calvus, two Synodontis and a Julie. | The Calvus with a young Lelupi. |
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| A 6 month old Julie | The same Julie 2 years later. |
The right picture is a male and female. |
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I I love this shot. Just as I snapped the picture the Julie spun around and looked into the jaws of the skull. It was almost like it was agreed upon. |
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| A 4 month old Lelupi. | The same Lelupi 2 years later. |
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| A male and female Lelupi sparring. | They have been dancing around each other for 8 months and have yet to breed. |
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| A Specious Shellie. I had a four of them but they are mean little territorial fish and even in a 30 gal all to them selves I couldn't get a pair of them to get along. I tried repeatedly and as soon as they seen each other across the tank it was an immediate attack situation. | They killed each other off till there was just one and I placed him in the large Tang tank and darned if he didn't hold his own against fish 5 and 6 times his size and lived there for a couple of years. A very interesting little fish. |
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| The Sunflowers have been pretty prolific in this tank. I currently have multiple generations swimming around. They are a remarkably slow growing fish, slowest I've ever seen anyway. | The adult female. She has breed with both of the males at different times and everyone seems alright with that. They have formed a community. |
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| A picture of each male. | These are a scrappy intelligent confident little fish. |
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