Thanks for the kind words, amigo's
Well, time to answer some questions:
X: nope, Ed has five 4-5" buddies.
Here's a picture:
Note the odd coloration: I took this picture at night, when I came home from an evening out and I woke them up.
And a full tank shot:
Innes: thanks for the compliment! Decorating the tank and selecting all those fishies set me back a nice amount of money, but it's worth every cent (and more: I'm just beginning)...
I still think it's really weird having all those fish together: it's almost like a predatory fish tank and a community tank combined in one, and both are blissfully unaware of each other. It's the result of endless experimenting, experimenting and more experimenting...
MAD: do you mean the "slit" in their forehead? My smaller reds have it too. I think it's for aquadynamics, just like the serrae's p's have running across their upper and lower body. It reduces drag, and enables them to swim faster. Think of this: most piranha's stalk their prey, and try to catch it in a burst of speed (a bit similar to cheetah's...)
Nitro: my camera is a really cheap one. It's 1,3 Megapixel Sony DSC-P20 and I paid about $200,- for it. It's a really simple model, but with some nice extra features, like a macro setting for extreme close-ups, flash with red-eye reduction, a nice zoom function. It's by no means a fancy-ass camera (and completely unsuitable for outdoor pictures), but if you want to make some nice pictures of your fish, I do recommend this model. Only downside: it uses batteries like there is no tomorrow, and buying an accu and adapter costs an additional 150 bucks...
The pictures I post here and on my website (there are many more on there *wink wink*
) are selected from hundreds of pictures I take every month. Only the best make it on-line, after some rigorous editing in Fireworks/Photoshop.
Again, thanks for the nice words, and feel free to ask more questions if you have any...