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Wondering if you guys could try to sex my oscars..I just took about 100 pictures w/ my digital camera, and will sort thru them and have them up on a webserver sometime tonight

point to http://jamiro.yi.org/fishes/
that's where i'll have them...hopefully by about 5 pm eastern standard time november 5th

I was reading on here that someone was having problems with major algae..grass-green color, etc... and couldnt get rid of it...

I've been having the same problem, so I just did a huge (about 80) percent water change, keeping my o's in a big bucket for about 4 days to let the water get good...

I've got 2 tiger o's...one about 6 inches, the other about 5...i had a third one, an albino, but he jumped out the small space between the lid and the tank last week ['he' was about 6" long, and the crack was only about 1.5 inches...didnt think it possible for any of them to jump out of there :-( ]

anyway, now that my water is clear and i can see [at least for now]..i noticed some white spots on my fish. The smaller one has a spot right in the middle of his head, directly above his eyes.

The larger one has a spot about in the middle of his back, i'll have pictues of all this a litter later tonight at the url i said above.

Ugh...just figured out that my whisper 250 hasn't been filtering..dunno for how long. Maybe that's why I had such a bad algae problem. Still had the under gravel going, but i dont think that would do much to deter the algae.

Gunna take apart the motor for my whisper later tonight and see what the problem is...really hope it's not ruined!

ok, enough rambling for now

Nick

wait for joe to geyt a look at those pics he'll have them figured out if thier good pics

grr, ok...i'll have them up before too long...hehe

sorry, the pictures should be up soon, i see a few of you have already tried to look

nick

Hi Nick,

I tried to load that link, it didn't work....is it the correct link?

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Joe
www.cichlidfish.com

Yep...it's the right link

I just cant get the digital camera to cooperate in downloading the pictures to the hard drive...

also havnt had too much time to mess with the silly camera, I will have time tonight, and the camera seem to be in a good mood right now, so hopefully they'll be up within an hour

I'll post another reply when they're ready

Ok...pictures are here
http://jamiro.yi.org/

ok, thats where the pictures are, not the subdir like earlier

my brother was messing with the camera, and messed up the memory chip...so i had to go re-take them, and i only had room on the camera for 12 pictures....and they're sorta out of focus

also have a small video clip of the fish..

nick

Hi Nick,

I still can't load that link, are you sure you typed it right?

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Joe
www.cichlidfish.com

fixed the link again....

Hi Nick,

Unfortunately, I think even God himself would have a hard time sexing them with those pictures maybe try using a tripod next time or increase the shutter speed,(you'll also have to increase lighting probably when you increase shutter speed)...how big are the oscars in inches from tip of head to tip of tail?

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Joe
www.cichlidfish.com

Yeah, thats kinda what i thought...

the pictures from earlier were better...


they're around 5 inches, i'd guess...5 to 6

ill try to get some beter pictures, it seems like the camera just focused on stuff in the background

Gotta tell you though that they usually don't start breeding until they're 8" or so...

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Joe
www.cichlidfish.com