I think Mike, that you will be rewarded if you do find a nice quiet tank for your pair, – and you have a really good camera I think, so if you set things up carefully and plan a little you can get really good videoes without disturbing too much. I have also found my camera back again, and enjoy making videoes. Actually I would really like to show you my last video of today (and hope you dont think it bad of me to use your thread 🙂 … and here you can see a pair of linkei’s also maybe like Peter is describing ‘trying’. However they have spawned – as you can see – already a few days ago, – but it seemed like today, they tried for long long time, and it really didnt look as if they knew how excatly they should do.
But if you have a couple – that likes each other – in a smaller tank, and set the cave a little to the back, but not too much, have it so you can see inside the cave, – the one I use seemed to be perfect for photographing, although maybe not so perfect as the roof is a bit not even, which means that eggs might slide up, not a good thing, – however they obviously did not.
Of course you have to make sure you do not disturb the fishes or scare them, they wont feel comfortable enough then, – but you can make them used to the camera by having it standing on something stable in front, – I dont know what its called in english, but I have a ‘foot’- thing for my camera, so it stands there all day in front of the tank, and then all I have to do is push the on button. So theres not much movement in front of the tank. It also gives better images if the camera is not hold by hand, but is standing on something firm. Light is a problem, I acutally glued a small pocket lamp onto the camera 🙂 … and pointed it into the cave, – not a very strong light, that might disturb them, but enough to make video.
I am trying to follow this pair and the eggs until the larvaes have gone from the cave.
Here it is … actually I cut it down to at least half the time, they spend so long in and out, trying, leaving, trying again 🙂 ..
They did succeed in the end, – there are some interesting views towards the end, for those who have the patience to watch that long .. 🙂
[video]http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4NCykvgkks&feature=player_detailpage[/video]