Maroon Clownfish eggs...

man....get rid of your free server...nothing like people wanting to look at
your success only to be repeatedly denied....



"Pszemol" wrote in message
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Hi,
I would like to share some info about my clownfish with you.

Monday, late in the night, I noticed my pair of clowns
lied eggs on the bathroom tile I placed near their anemone.
Did not took the picture then, but the eggs were orange,
quite bright, uniformly colored and translucent...

Yesterday evening I moved the tile to take a photo.
The female clown was ****ed off but I bribed her with food :-)

Here is the link to some of the pictures:
http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/Clowns_8_2005/
The ones with 8-11.* pattern are from yesterday.
I have enlarged one of the pictures and decided to count eggs:
http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/Clow....counting0.JPG
http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/Clow....counting1.JPG
http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/Clow....counting2.JPG
http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/Clow....counting3.JPG
http://www.darmoland.pl/pszemol/Clow....counting4.JPG
I colored every single egg manually in Paintbrush program,
changing the color of my brush with every 20 eggs counted.
Then, I added all colored areas together and came up with
the number of eggs equal to 677. Pretty impressive...

The pictures from Wednesday (8-10.*) were not in focus so
the count I took on them is not as accurate, but I counted
much more eggs, almost 850. I am wondering what could be
the reason for diminishing number of eggs every day...
Could it be some predation ?

Anyway - I was wondering if anybody knows a computer program
I can use to count the eggs on the electronic picture in an
automatic way, without suffering dry eyes from counting dots
one by one ? :-) I tried to modify the picture to make it
black and white, and then count eggs, but the b&w conversion
did not work well on the colors I had on the picture...
I would like to count the eggs when I move them to the
fry tank, but I don't want to exercise my eyes too much ;-)
Any other ideas ?

p.s. I got the rotifers and algae culture running on high gear
in wait for the hatchlings... I am curious how will it work out.

I figured this already. This is one of the crapiest free services ever ;-)

"Phil Payes" wrote in message ...
man....get rid of your free server...nothing like people wanting to look at
your success only to be repeatedly denied....

Try ipowerweb.com - It runs me $96 a year, and I have something like
2000 megs of storage space and 80+ gigs of bandwidth per month.

Marc


Pszemol wrote:
I figured this already. This is one of the crapiest free services ever ;-)

"Phil Payes" wrote in message
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man....get rid of your free server...nothing like people wanting to
look at your success only to be repeatedly denied....




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"Marc Levenson" wrote in message m...
Try ipowerweb.com - It runs me $96 a year, and I have something like
2000 megs of storage space and 80+ gigs of bandwidth per month.

Cool service... But I do not even dream about the website like yours.
All I need is to share couple of crappy pictures ;-)

BTW - let me know if this will work for you guys:
These are pictures repeated from 8/11 http://www.voila.pl/mwyc1
Here are new pictures of fry from yesterday http://www.voila.pl/g5lhk

I know the picture quality has a lot of room for improvement
but I do not have too much of a photo making talent ;-)