Northern Lights Aquatics Fish Blog

Ok, Jeff was a very bad boy.
We went out to buy some filters today, and ended up coming home with another betta from The Tropical Fish Shoppe.
He really is beautiful - he’s an iridescent green with hints of lavendar.
We decided to put him in the planted tank, since we already have bettas in our other [...]

German Blue Rams are my husband’s favorite fish.
They’re really fun to watch - they chase each other around, and guard their territories, and they seem to have a lot of fun.
We were very fortunate to get some German Blue Rams from a breeder in Minneapolis, and they are beautiful.
Since they are sensitive to water [...]

I wrote yesterday that I was concerned about the dwarf puffers not eating.
Fortunately, it’s a little easier to tell when the ghost shrimp have eaten - their “guts” turn the color of the food they’ve eaten.
I find the shrimp interesting.
I think they’re neat, but I wouldn’t let my husband get any for a while [...]

We got three dwarf puffers and two ghost shrimp last Tuesday.
They seem to be pretty happy in their 14 gallon aquarium so far, although we still haven’t seen the puffers eat too much.
The people at the store where we bought them only gave us 3 snails for them, and they were too big for the [...]