Boxing Match

[fishtanker]

anyone have any boxfish pics, here one

 

[ryebread]

My late Cowfish.........RIP.

 

[ryebread]

Squarepants.......

 

[pupchow]

I am actually thinking about keeping one of those Black box fish (female)... can you give me more info about your set up and its behavior?

 

[ryebread]

I don't actually have one of these fish. This is a pic of one of my client's tanks and I just have a pic since my tank could not house a boxfish like this. They get big............real big!! I often live vicariously through the photos that I take.

 

[hnf2k]

ryebread, 2 questions...by client you mean fish store or camera store? and what camera did you use to take the picture of the one you titled "squarepants". that is amazing quality, are you selling that camera, if so how much?

 

[ryebread]

By client, I mean a man in my area who owns a 300gal FOWLR who has hired me a couple of times to shoot stuff for magazines and web stuff. As far as the camera goes............that particular shot was taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5700 that I sold to Jarre a couple of weeks ago.

 

[hnf2k]

how much does a camera like that run?

 

[ryebread]

$1200.............but, the camera did not do the work. I did.

 

[hnf2k]

at genovese they have a cheap 30 dollar digital camera, will that work?

 

[ryebread]

Not necessarily smart@$$ It has to have the right controls on it for me to do manual settings. The same settings I use for all aspects of photography.

 

[hnf2k]

no no no, i wasn't trying to be a smartass at all...i wasn't even relating to your above post. i was asking if you knew anything about it, and if it would work well enough so that if i have a question about my tank i could post a clear enough picture of what it is...you work in a photography store right? so would the 30 dollar one work well enough for my needs?

 

[ryebread]

Sorry..........I often assume that everyone is as sarcastic as me. I am not sure of the specs on the camera but, I do no that the metering system in the camera probably stinks.........not to mention the close-focusing capability. Maybe there is a cheap miracle cam out there that I don't know of though.

 

[hnf2k]

well if i dont like it they said i can return it, so i figure i'll give it a try...or maybe ill get the name and look it up online.

 

[pupchow]

sorry, about the box fish, I think they nip at inverts... in your experience, is it true?

 

[ryebread]

My long-horn was certainly a nipper. I had a Condylactus once and he could not keep his mouth off of it.