Introduction: Fish Frame for Taking Photographs of Live Micro-fish

By The Fish Nerds
About: I'm just a regular guy trying to do extraordinary things. In addition I produce a weekly podcast, write and garden. I love to look at piles of crap and make that crap into something useful, useful crap.


My friend and I are on a quest to catch and eat every species of freshwater fish in New Hampshire, we are writing a book and have a website and blog  www.fishnerds.com; One of the problems with the quest is that we are catching a ton of small fish, minnows, dace, sculpins etc... and it is really hard to get a picture of the fish with it's fins showing, so I came up with this! Enjoy!


Step 1: Get Your Stuff Together

Here's what you need"

2. 8x10 pieces of plexi-glass

6 to 8 one inch wing nuts, screws, and screw sets

1 2 foot section of 3/4 inch hose



Tools needed:

Drill

Bits to match your screw

screw driver

scissors



Total cost for materials should be under $10, if you already have the stuff it will be much cheaper.

Step 2: This Is Easy, Get to Work

I think the pictures speak for themselves, but for those of you who love words, here they are



Peel off the protective layer of plastic from the plexi-glass.



Now place the piece of hose in between the two pieces of plexi

Clamp them together and drill holes close to the hose, evenly spaced so it will hold tight.



Step 3: OK Time for the Big Finish

While everything is clamped together, install the screws, wingnuts and screw sets.



The reason for using wing nuts is so you can control how much pressure is on the hose, you do not want to break the plexi, but in the field you might want to fix a leak or something.



Well I am glad you've made it this far, so now it's time to cut the extra hose off and get to work...

Step 4: So Get Some Fish!

This is the hard part, go catch a small fish, stick it in the frame with some water and take some pictures!