Northern Lights Aquatics Fish Blog

Here’s a picture of my male Australian Desert Goby, Mello Yello.
Right now we still have at least 7 fry, but we’ve counted as many as 11 at one time.
They are so tiny.
We are feeding them live baby brine shrimp, and Hikari First bites, and they seem to be doing well.
Right now they are in a [...]

We just noticed that we have German Blue Ram Fry. The eggs were laid on a piece of slate placed along the bottom of the aquarium gravel on February 13.
We pulled the slate out (making sure to keep the eggs fully submersed at all times) after the Rams looked like they were done because [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day!
Hopefully we’ll have some Valentine’s Day presents from our fish soon.
We have eggs from one pair of German Blue Rams, and from our Australian Desert Gobies.

60 baby cichlids will be blasted off into space to help study motion sickness in humans on the space shuttle.
I wonder what kind of cichlids there are?
You can read the rest of the article at Germans to blast fish into space.