Northern Lights Aquatics Fish Blog

Our Australian Desert Goby Fry are doing great!
We have 8 of them, and it looks like we have 2 or 3 males, but we aren’t really sure yet.
Two of the males have been showing their adult color for about 3 weeks, and one of them has claimed a cave, which he vigorously defends against all [...]

The Australian Desert Gobies are still doing fine, although they have a few snail friends in their tank.
It’s so much fun to watch them hop around when there’s food in the tank, and it’s really nice to be able to see them when we aren’t two inches away from the tank.
Most of them are about [...]

It’s been a long couple of weeks.
My adult australian desert gobies died.
This was somewhat expected, since we’ve had them since the end of January, and they were about full grown then.
These fish are considered to be annuals by most of the people I know that have them, because they only live for twelve to eighteen [...]

Here are our two female Australian Desert Gobies sitting together on a cave.
The cave is painted green and blue, but it does have some algae on it.