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Day 20 of Scorpaena scrofa, a red scorpionfish. I love that I was able to get the fins to display and the jaws to stay open. Plus, those long cirrae on the head are just beautiful. [https://t.co/X106ej82Nt]

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2018-12-21

My favorite creation from this year has to be my composition of Selene vomer (a lookdown). From staining the specimen to imaging and post-precessing, it was definitely one of my more time consuming (and rewarding) images.

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2018-12-15

Happy If you haven't had a chance to see them, I've completed three new fishy projects over the past few days, including one this morning! Fundulus olivaceus, Scorpaenopsis diabolus, and Pterygoplichthys pardalis!

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2018-11-23

Another new fish! Pterygoplichthys pardalis, the Amazon sailfin catfish. That armor looks amazing! Cleared and stained back in 2016....I just recently found the time to photograph and I spent much of yesterday working on it.

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2018-11-23

The last of the three scorpionfishes that I have been working on since the middle of Summer is done. Scorpaenopsis diabolus, a devil scorpionfish. All three are here. Scorpaenopsis diabolus, Scorpaena scrofa, and Scorpaenopsis macrochir.

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2018-11-23

I revisited one of my older images and decided that I was unhappy with it. So, I re-imaged the specimen from scratch, knowing I could now do better. Fundulus olivaceus, a blackspotted topminnow. https://t.co/mB5DS1g3Eq

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2018-11-22

Happy Here is another completed scorpionfish! The one that I, not too long ago, had to stitch to a slide to get the correct position! Scorpaena scrofa, the red scorpionfish. Check out those cirri and the blue tips of those fin rays!

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2018-10-26

After mucking it up and starting over from scratch, here is Lachnolaimus maximus, the hogfish, for my contribution to this week's And, of course, I had help as usual.

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2018-09-24

Happy A small fish native to waters in the Mississippi river system, bigeye shiner (𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙥𝙨) populations rely heavily on their sight to feed, making clear, clean water crucial to their survival!

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2018-09-08

Last Friday, I shared my image of the oral jaws and dentition of a 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔. Here is the rest of it! Total length is ~ 3cm.

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2018-08-31

Rhinomuraena quaesita, a ribbon moray, for this week's I had quite a bit of fun with this one!

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2018-08-27

Happy Here is my most recent completed image - Scorpaenopsis macrochir (flashy scorpionfish), along with the Alternate Reality installment -

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2018-08-24

I ultimately decided that I was unhappy with what I produced the past few days concerning the first of my three scorpionfishes. So... I removed scales and tried to clear up a few parts that were still out of focus. I'm done with it now!

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2018-08-22

For this week's it would seem that and I both had catostomids on the brain. Moxostoma carinatum, a river redhorse.

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2018-07-16

The brook silverside (Labidesthes sicculus), is a unique fish native to North American waters that, in recent years, has been on the decline due to water mitigation, pollution and invasion.

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2018-07-09

The very first specimen that I ever cleared and stained, Aphyocharax anisitsi, a bloodfin tetra. Photographed it a few years later.

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2018-07-04

Happy Re-sharing my Selene vomer work from last week, as well as showing off the new addition to my Alternate Reality series featuring....Selene vomer! They are both now up for sale in my etsy shop - https://t.co/X106ej82Nt

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2018-06-15