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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We noticed that the majority of the angelfish eggs were fungusing on the 9th, and that a cloud of fungus was covering the good eggs, so we removed them all.
Maybe next time.