Today in the Fishroom~11/01/09 Hogs, Zonatum, Blue Labridens and Fish Cat...NOT Catf

**aquamojo** · 11-01-2009, 7:33 PM

A few shots of the male P. zonatus. Always a camera hound.

More blue....F0 H. labridens "Blue, Sp. Taninul"

I put one of the F0 A. hogamoomarum in into the photo tank that I constructed. For a day the fish remained hidden behind the tank ornament (driftwood and foliage). I decided to remove the hiding spaces.//and did a 75% water change. It took literally an hour and a half to wait for the first move into the sweet spot of the lights. I got this first picture:

And the fish immediately went crazy. I don't know what he thought he saw....all of the lights were off in the room. I can only assume that the large barrel of the open lens looked like an open mouth. The fish immediately went into an aggressive stance. You can see the change in color pattern here. Much darker stripes and vivid colors.

And of course the operculum flaring and glass banging. He almost looks like a Thoricthys meeki with that flaring.

Really mad here:

We have three cats in the house. This cat...my Fish Cat...not Catfish...Dweezil, lives in the basement...mostly my fishroom. On more than one occasion she will walk by the tank and help distract the fish while I take a shot. Sometimes she just lays on the top of the tank. The other day she did this on the managuense tank...the managuense wanted nothing to do with this and hit the top of the tank lid. Dweezil just stood up and casually moved. Apparently it wasn't a first for her.