Happy Haps

I have not posted a pic in a while so here is a few of my "Copadichromis borleyi Nkhata Bay". Yes 2 frisky males in one tank with at least one producing female. They tangle but there is enough hiding places it works out and keeps them showing off their colors.

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This is a pair of gorgeous fish. I keep getting closer and closer to establishing a Malawi tank! You're nudging me with these photos. I used to keep them 30 years ago when they were starting to hit the American market. I gotta get back into them!
Thanks for the post!

Thier coloring is quite nice

Thanks. I tried to keep the colors as accurate as possible. Just got a new lens to play with too.

Wow the fins on those are awesome!

What type of camera/lens combo are you shooting with?

Using my Nikon D90 with an 80-200 lens and an off camera flash for those. Shot at night to keep all the reflections down to a minimum.

Nice job and nice equipment!

I need to get to know my equipment better. I'm using a Sony DSLR-A350 with one of those all in one lenses. Its got a ton of features that I need to get acquainted with. But I need to get a flash off the camera set up.

That's a good tip to shoot at night to cut down on reflections. Fairly common sense, but it hadn't occured to me.

The camera is nice, but I used to get some amazing shots with my old 4mp Cannon G2 camera. One thing that helped is to put a layer of tissue paper over the flash on the camera so it does not make a real hot shiny spot on the fish.

Nice looking borleyi, Paintguy! They don't look like they've been too rough on each other.

Nice Borleyis! I am a Hap fan myself and one of my current hap are red Borleyi Kandagos and have about 40+ fry growing out...this strain wasn't easy to find.

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Very nice. I like the reds also, but have limited tank space says the wife