Northern Lights Aquatics Fish Blog

We noticed the discus acting funny yesterday - and realized that they were getting ready to lay eggs.
They were chasing the third discus in the tank, and the bushynose plecos in the tank away from their corner of the tank, and pecking at the filter intake tube.
After a while of pecking I noticed the female [...]

Unfortunately, we don’t have dwarf puffers any more.
Shortly after we got our puffers they started wasting away, and there was nothing we could do to save them.
I believe that they had parasites when we got them. Although they had plump bellies and were very active at the store they quickly stopped eating and died.
All of [...]

People have been asking me what you need in order to keep Discus happy, and before I bought my Discus I asked the same questions.
Here is my list of things that are needed for a Discus tank.
 #1 Discus are very particular about maintaining the proper PH level.
To help with this and keep my PH from jumping around [...]

The German Blue Ram Fry are still doing great. Here’s a picture of one that was taken last Sunday, about 21 days after the fry hatched.
The German Blue Ram Fry and the Australian Desert Goby fry are still eating Hikari First Bites, and Baby Brine Shrimp (BBS), and most of them are big enough [...]