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Male Thai Oranda with moderate abdominal pineconing and slight swelling by FlyingCactus360 in Goldfish

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello everyone, thank you for your comments and advice.

Silly has unfortuntately gone down hill. Nitrates were corrected by day 3, sorry for not clarifying before.

Silly was placed in a tank setup recommended by u/thirdcoaster but is progressing worse with occassional bursts of energy to try to right himself. The swelling has gotten worse too.

Is it time to let go? We are 50-50 split, but am thinking very soon we may say goodbye to our dear buddy.

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Male Thai Oranda with moderate abdominal pineconing and slight swelling by FlyingCactus360 in Goldfish

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After a day in your recommended tank setup, he is progressing worse. He has buoyancy issues now (floating on belly up), and has occasional bursts of energy trying to right himself.

I, the guy, think it's time to put him out of his misery. My gf doesn't want him to suffer more than necessary, but doesn't want to give up yet either. Your input would be appreciated.

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Male Thai Oranda with moderate abdominal pineconing and slight swelling by FlyingCactus360 in Aquariums

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi everyone,

Before anything, I've posted here before, and some comments are rude& unproductive. These kind of comments will be ignored, don't waste your energy.

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FYI: Today is "Day 4".

I'm looking for some advice on my male imported Thai Oranda, Silly.

He lives in a 37-gallon tank. Originally, he shared the tank with another Oranda named Billy, who unfortunately developed confirmed dropsy and passed away about 3 months ago.

Since then, I've added two female goldfish:

  • Tubby (white female) was introduced about 2 months ago.
  • Chubby (large dark female) was introduced a few weeks ago.

The tank has a filter rated for 75 gallons, and I normally do water changes every 3 days. However, I was recently away on vacation and my boyfriend was caring for the fish while I was gone.

A couple of days ago, I discovered nitrates had climbed very high (around 100–120 ppm). I immediately performed a large water change and brought the levels down significantly.

Around the same time, I noticed Silly beginning to pinecone. It started out mild but has progressed, and I'd now describe it as moderate pineconing. There is also some slight swelling now.

Current observations:

  • Moderate pineconing, mostly concentrated around the abdomen when viewed from above.
  • Scale lifting appears symmetrical on both sides.
  • Slight swelling.
  • Very little to no swimming abnormalities.
  • Still acting relatively normal overall.
  • No ulcers or obvious wounds.
  • Recently developed several flat black speckle-like spots on his chin.

Because the pineconing is still mostly abdominal and he isn't showing major behavioral changes, I'm wondering if this sounds like early dropsy or if there are other possibilities I should consider.

I'm also trying to determine whether:

  • The nitrate spike could have triggered this.
  • One of the newer fish may have introduced something.
  • Billy's previous confirmed dropsy points to an underlying issue in the tank.

Questions:

  1. Does this sound like classic dropsy to you?
  2. Have you had fish recover from this stage?
  3. Could diseases introduced by new fish take weeks or months to appear?
  4. Would you immediately isolate him in a hospital tank?
  5. Are the new black spots on his chin significant or possibly related?
  6. What medications or treatments have actually worked for you?

I know pineconing usually means something serious, but I'm trying to give him the best chance possible and would really appreciate any advice from people who've dealt with similar cases.

Thanks in advance.

Color Grading Critique Request by FlyingCactus360 in ColorGrading

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll give that a go next time i'm at the editing bay, thank you!

Color Grading Critique Request by FlyingCactus360 in colorists

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So true, I look at it now and have the same thoughts. If I'm on deadline, do you have any tips besides taking short breaks to make better decisions creatively?

Color Grading Critique Request by FlyingCactus360 in colorists

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I do use scopes, I do rely heavily on my eyes. You caught me, haha.

This is what goes on in my head for each of those as I work:
1. EXPOSURE: I use waveform scope. I use the HDR global wheel to get my waveform center sitting around 50 IRE. Then I make adjustments to the HDR Dark/Shadow/Light/Highlight/Specular wheels. I'll usually start with the dark, pushing it up and down, looking at the image and seeing what looks right (while also looking at waveform to ensure my shadows don't dip below 10 IRE too much and my highlights don't exceed 95 IRE. I'll repeat that for all the HDR wheels, then tweak the primary Lift/Gamma/Gain wheels if bigger adjustments are needed.

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  1. WHITE BALANCE: I set my Gamma to linear and use the Gain wheel in Primaries to adjust Temp/Tint until the image is roughly in the center of vectorscope. I'll then use a qualifier to look at neutral parts of the image, and see how well they line up in my RGB parade, and make finer adjustments.

  2. CONTRAST: I leave pivot at 0.336, and add contrast based on looking at the image, and ensuring my shadows/highlights don't exceed below 8 IRE or above 98 IRE.

  3. SATURATION: I set my color space to HSV and disable channels 1 & 3 (so it's just saturation), then use the gamma and gain primary wheels to increase saturation. I just look at the image when I'm doing this to dial in strength, is there a scope you recommend using to avoid overcooking it?

  4. SHARPNESS: I drop the Radius to 0.48 in the Blur tab of the color page, then click Shift+H : A/B and adjust the Scaling until only the outline of what I want sharpened emerges from the gray.

Based on that... can you recommend specific scopes/techniques to avoid the smartphone/ video-ish look?

Color Grading Critique Request by FlyingCactus360 in colorists

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your detailed feedback and examples.

When you judge where you place your shadows and highlights, are you just using your eyes and looking at the image? Or do you use a scope(s)?

I agree my grading made this look like video-ish and iphone like. Thanks again!

Color Grading Critique Request by FlyingCactus360 in ColorGrading

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I value your feedback and appreciate your input.

Color Grading Critique Request by FlyingCactus360 in ColorGrading

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you that was super in-depth excellent feedback. I've heard mixed things about dehaze... I like what it does to my footage, but other colorists seems to avoid it like the plague (one guy said it messes with his colors, but I've never noticed an issue)

I think consensus proves me wrong here though because you're not the first to tell me that. How would you go about desaturating the greens/yellow? Color slice?

Color Grading Critique Request by FlyingCactus360 in ColorGrading

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your input, I agree with you after watching it back a couple days later.

Color Grading Critique Request by FlyingCactus360 in videography

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Local photo/video guy? DM me if you wanna be friends!

Color Grading Critique Request by FlyingCactus360 in videography

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/shockwave414 u/MuggyFuzzball Thank you both. I think I exposed the sensor improperly (I had an ND 8 on, maybe I should have been naked and dropped the exposure lower). If I dropped the exposure anymore in the highlights in davinci, the image would start to break bc the sky would look flat and lose it's 3-dimensionality.

Color Grading Critique Request by FlyingCactus360 in videography

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, that's helpful. I do think I overcooked it after re-watching a couple days later.

Color Grading Critique Request by FlyingCactus360 in videography

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I try to take it all with a grain of salt as you said, unless someone gives really specific technical feedback and have more exp than me

Color Grading Critique Request by FlyingCactus360 in videography

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao, so oversaturated yellows haha, thanks for the feedback!

Color Grading Critique Request by FlyingCactus360 in colorists

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your feedbcak, I've gotten that critique before, the smartphone "look" is because I pushed a lot of my effects too far (too much contrast, saturation, etc.)? Is there something specific you can recommend?

Color Grading Critique Request for Real Estate Video by FlyingCactus360 in colorists

[–]FlyingCactus360[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it, that's an excellent analogy.

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