Shrimps

Water Shrimp (Gammarus) (c)
Makes a change when its raining I suppose.
D200 Sigma 50mm
60th f16
JR

Great shot John and I'm still trying to figure out how you've done it. I've got lots of little critters like this in my pond so I might have a play tomorrow - lol.

Cheers

Tim

Fantastic. It should rain more often.

Bit of a different subject John, but an interesting shot!

Works for me, especially as all the shrimps are in good focus. Would i be right in assuming the tank is extremely narrow?

Nicely done

Alan

Is this one of those super-narrow mini tanks John?

Whatever it is, it's very effective - interesting image to say the least

Ok - so you need the secrets !! Its an old trick really
Take two bits of glass.
Take one piece of electric cable and pull the wires out. (or get some rubber tubing )
Lay the wire in a U shape ,
Clamp the two bits of glass together with bulldog clips.
The thickness or narrowness of the tank depends on the thickness of the tube.
You then need a hypodermic syringe to get certain critters in !
Come on then lets see all the daphnia shots !!
Cheers
JR

I enclose another shot to show how you need to be carefull when setting up stuff like this. Any ideas what's wrong ??
JR

When I was a child many years ago , I normally found caddisfly larvae under stones, and very rarely out of cover. As they spend their time on the stream bed you wouldn't normally see them floating in the water. AFAIAA cased caddisfly larvae are detritivores or herbivores.

Apparently "some jewellers place caddis fly larvae in aquariums with tiny pieces of gold and precious stones so that the insect makes its armour out of 22-carat (gold) rather than 22 twigs"
See:

http://naturenet.net/blogs/index.php?p=585&more=1&c=1

You got it David.
These above use sand grains as camo, so you wouldn't find them creeping about on Fontinalis . We always like to make things look a bit "pretty" but we have to be careful- there's a lot of clever folks out there !!
JR

excellent shot John, and very interesting technique. Thanks for spilling the beans. I was aware of the technique, but it would never have occurred to me to make a tank so cheaply and effectively. Good to see my taxes aren't being wasted
Eric

Thanks for the tips John. You are as generous as ever with your secrets.

Tim

Fantastic shots John, I really enjoy your aquarium set-ups

Dan.

Very nice John
I have thought about doing this for years and never managed to find the time, Great to see these posted

Dave

John

Very interesting topic thanks for sharing the info. Yet again the UKNP format enhanced which makes it such a great forum.

Barry

Eastbourne / Kansas

Hi John this is something different on this forum and a nice story to boot.
John

very interesting John and excellent shots. I would like to play around with this sort of set-up some time.

Matt

Hi John,

Superb image!

Very interesting technique that gives great results

Tony

Really clever set up and interesting shot