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Sounds like I need to curtail my desire and skip this addition.

Zebra morays attain rather large sizes, and eels in general are escape artists. its a huge risk to keep one in an open top tank. your best options, if you choose to buy an eel, would be Golden Dwarf Morays or a Ribbon eel (which are very hard to care for). however, you will lose a couple fish and some of your cleanup crew, and you may find your new specimen on the floor.

I feel the same way. But I might as well find out how this one works at the very least. The holes don't appear to line up though, so I'll have to see how that affects the change.

Yeah, I'd be tempted to swap the actual squeegee rubber to the new bracket.

I looks like the old blade was a better design?

I currently am using the 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens that came with the camera for macro work, and it doesn't do too bad. But I'd love a lens with more magnification and larger aperature for shooting the aquarium. And I'm so glad I spent the money on a decent tripod. As you say, makes a world of difference.

I have three lenses. The 50mm f/1.8, the 105mm Macro, and the all round 18-200mm. When shooting with the macro lens, I really have to break out the tripod if I want to capture a sharp image. Handheld usually results in soft or even blurry shots, which aren't worth sharing (or taking).

By the way, Are you still using primarily the 105mm micro lens? I'm hoping to get a good micro lens myself this year.

Nice work Marc. I don't mind a little post processing to make the subject stand out, or make the photo more true to life. One of the things I've read is that our eyes can see a much broader range of light intensity than a camera sensor. Which is why we need to use a fill flash or HDR when photographing a back lit subject to keep it from being just a black shape. I notice it when photographing the aurora. If I expose to let the aurora show up as I see it with my night adapted eyes, the sky looks grey instead of black. So I typically darken the surrounding sky to appear near black again in post processing.

I had a snow flake eel a few years ago in my 90 gallon. He woul eat out of my hand. At the time I purchased him I had a good 60-70 hermit crabs and 5-6 emarald crabs. Everyday I started seeing less and less o the crabs. Took about a month before they were all gone. I did some reading and learned that they eat crabs. I ended up pulling it out the tank and donating him back to the pet store I purchased it from. That's my only experience I have had with eels

So what are the other eels of choice? The Golden Dwarf Moray and the Zebra Moray are two I know of. What's the story with those?

I want a snowflake as well, but my understanding has always been that your clean up crew will slowly disappear. This isn't first hand knowledge though, so it could be wrong.

Won't he go after the clown? I guess you could feed him raw shrimp. How big does it get?

I'm going to need a little more than that to pull the trigger.

He's very cute, buy him

Originally Posted by janey

ohh I found it.. Thanks

I do sell it now, Janey. I got it from my supplier.

ohh I found it.. Thanks

i like that spigot.. where did you get it ??

Janey

Fish foraging on a coral can cause damage, and I thought the tangs and angels were the culprits, but those fish are still in the tank and the coral is turning around for the better.

I wonder what would cause it to do that.