ACA 2008 fish photos and more

[ikevi]

I decided to make a new thread... For more on how we setup see: http://www.fishforums.com/forum/atla...2008-prep.html


So the new stuff:


So here are some fish photos and some people shots. I personally got to busy after 1:30 since I and a few other people set up oh ~25 more tanks. I also was in charge of making sure all the donated fish got into tanks and weren't going to die. (I say I did a good job considering the circumstances.) All fish were doing well when I left. I dread bagging for tomorrow.

Needless to say I am dead tired again. But before I sleep here are photos:

First most fish from the top row... I took these early before things got crazy so I missed a bunch. I learned a bunch about Discus from Discus Hans. Though sadly I had to miss his talk since I was dealing with the 30 boxes of fish...

I am not going to comment much.

Fish:

[ikevi]

Some people:






Fish room again:

[ikevi]

A very controversial fish... Beautiful fish but well needless to say every person stops at that tank for some reason or another.





Now this is what I was doing... Most people likely heard me yelling over the top of everyone to get things done. Needless to say people get chatting here. (Oh and I have to say this is a lot more work then I expected... )

Anyways what happened was 30 boxes were picked up by me and John. From there I and a bunch of AAAA put them into the tanks we had... Sadly about 15 had broken so we didn't have enough tanks. We stuffed the fish into 10s till we had some more tanks brought in. (A family that I wont name since I don't really want to say last names, but mad props to them.) Anyways 2 55s, and many many more tens/twenties/fifteens were filled by me and Becky. We ended up moving about half the fish to new tanks. Refilling some tanks with new water and more fun.... Anyways here are some more pictures of some of the temp tanks setup.

[ttman]

cool keep 'em coming

[fishbguy]

holy cow...those are some freakin AWESOME discus!

that 'contraversial' fish is pretty sweet too...what kind is it?

[fish fanatic]

how much do the discus go for?

small?
medium?
large?

[frazzlerock5]

Love the Herichthys bartoni... Think they will have some at the auction?

[ikevi]

The discus in the show are for sale at 150... They are amazing. The others range depending on price. The really good ones of the smaller have already been bought, but there are still some great ones. All the rest of the discus will be sold in the sunday auction. (Currently prices run from ~25 bucks to 120 or so for the 2-4 inchers, the 150 are ~6 inches.)

Originally Posted by fish fanatic

how much do the discus go for?

small?
medium?
large?

The controversial fish is a hybrid.

[fishbguy]

But between what two fish? It looks really nice, even for a hybrid.

[HiImSean]

it looks like a red severums. i didnt think they were hybrids

i love that argentea and that firemouth is sick!

[Eric]

Heros severums (i.e. cichlasoma severum) are no hybrids.

[MaelStrom]

Some cool fish! What is the name for that kind of discus in the third picture?

[ikevi]

Originally Posted by Eric

Heros severums (i.e. cichlasoma severum) are no hybrids.

This isn't a heros severum. It was not DQ. If you look at the fish you can see traits that aren't in any severum I have ever seen. Anyways like I said it was controversial.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by ikevi

This isn't a heros severum. It was not DQ. If you look at the fish you can see traits that aren't in any severum I have ever seen. Anyways like I said it was controversial.

Ah! I will have to check that later this morning.

[ikevi]

Last of my pictures... I encourage anyone to post pictures of the auction. I forgot my camera today.

Sorry don't know all my discus off hand... and they were just grouped under a few names

Champsochromis caeruleus aka “Trout Cichlid”


Saddly this front didn't every really calm down enough for me to get a good shot. Well without me running the chance of causing him to hurt himself.

Cyphotilapia frontosa “Mpimbwe” female

Cyphotilapia frontosa

Tropheus polli

Tropheus sp. “Kaiser Ikola”

Tropheus Murago


Tropheus duboisi

Chalinochromis brichardi

Julidochromis transcriptus

Julidochromis marlieri


Neolamprologus beuscheri “Kantalamba Tanzania”

Pterophyllum scalare


Tropheus moori “Chimba”

Tropheus “Kaiser Ikola”

Cyprichromis leptosoma

[ikevi]

This is the lwanda without flash. His yellow shoulder kept on bleeding some to blue when I used flash.

[ikevi]

Just a for fun picture. (I obviously liked the fish...)
















And that is it. I don't really plan on doing much in photoshop. I can tell you all the fish in this post if you want me too. (I think I have shots of their names... sort of forgot to do that the first time I was snapping pictures.)

[Eric]

Well I got there at 8am this morning so of course we were just preparing tables etc.:



And the room where the fish were going to be was just starting to get some dry goods in it:



But it was packed with fish pretty fast:









And the auction was going well:





This is what the fish room looked like at 4:15pm, right before I left: almost empty!





Dino: I'm awfully sorry to say that the pic I took from you came out completely blurry!

[ikevi]

Heh, I left at what ~5 and I would guess there were at least 100 bags left.

What time did everything wrap up?