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Posted by Sarah on June 23, 2009
Northern Lights Aquatics now has it’s own Facebook page, so find us on Facebook, and become a fan!
I can’t wait to see you there.
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My last African Dwarf Frog Died this weekend
Posted by Sarah on February 16, 2009
My last African Dwarf Frog died this weekend.
It’s kind of disappointing, but considering that I bought all of them from a place that was starving the frogs, it’s not too unexpected.
That kind of abuse has to take a toll on your body, even if you’re properly taken care of later.
Two or three of the frogs that I got were so skinny that they died within a day after I took them home.
The stress of the move was just too much for them.
It’s a shame that some people don’t know how to take care of the pets they are selling and it’s worse that they often don’t care.
Just because African Dwarf Frogs live in a fish tank, doesn’t mean that they can be treated like fish.
African Dwarf frogs need frog food.
Sure they might last for a little while without it, but sooner or later your bad habits are going to catch up them.
Should they suffer because of your neglect?
For more information about my frogs visit my African Dwarf Frogs squidoo lens.
Do Display Tanks at Pet Stores Have an Impact on Your Purchases?
Posted by Sarah on February 10, 2009
Do display tanks at fish stores have an impact on your purchases?
If you see a beautiful well stocked display aquarium are you more likely to make a purchase?
If you see a tank with too many fish, or fish that shouldn’t be housed together, or fish that are too large for the tank they are in does that make a difference?
I know most fish tanks in pet stores are overstocked, and they often have fish that aren’t compatible in the same tank.
While that bothers me, I think it’s different to have a display tank which houses fish that aren’t for sale in conditions that are obviously wrong.
I would think that if someone was going to the trouble of making a display tank to entice customers then they’d want to put fish in it that actually had a chance of surviving together, and that had enough room for them to move like they want to.
I don’t like seeing fish that zip up and down the tank all day long shoved in a tank that’s barely big enough for them to turn around in, and seeing display tanks that are too small or have the wrong type of inhabitants for the size of the tank, or the other tank mates make me think that the store is more concerned with selling fish, than the welfare of the fish.
Of course most stores are more concerned with that – but if the store obviously doesn’t care for their display fish properly, then I think the fish they sell are going to be more likely to have problems when they come home with you, and if you don’t have a quarantine tank you could end up with a lot more problems in your display tank.
Do the display tanks at pet stores have an impact on your purchases?
If you saw a tank that was well stocked and appropriate for the fish in the tank would you be more likely to make a purchase?
Would a badly stocked, neglected, or too small display tank have an impact on whether or not you purchased fish from that store?
Consolidating the fish
Posted by Sarah on January 13, 2009
We’ve run into a snafu with our fish room downstairs, so we’re having to consolidate some of our fish.
We got some new windows a couple of months ago, and now that the air isn’t leaking into and out of the house so much we’re having humidity problems, even with our new dehumidifier.
We moved the parent discus into the 75 gallon with the blue rams, badis buxar, a clown loach, some harlequin rasboras, and some queen botia’s and they seem to be really enjoying it.
It’s fun to see them zooming all over the place when they used to sit in that tank by themselves and hide.
We have seen them chasing The Lone Wolf, our male discus around, so we might have to look at rearranging that tank pretty soon.
We moved the Blue Gularis into our bedroom, which houses cories, guppies, swordtails, platies, and 6 Limia vitatta, which I call the lima bean fish.
I love lima beans, and Jeff doesn’t and even though I plant them in my garden every year, I haven’t gotten one single plant to survive.
Do you think he’s sabotaging me?
Unfortunately, the Blue Gularis were full grown when we got them, and since their life span is usually 12 months I don’t think they are going to make it too much longer.
We have an empty 20 that we are going to move the Australian Desert Gobies into – I wanted to move the Blue Gularis there to try to get some eggs, and put the gobies in the community tank, but Jeff vetoed that since he doesn’t think we are getting any eggs from the Blue Gularis.
He’d rather have desert goby fry, and so would I.
I am so excited that I will be able to see them again!
I love my desert gobies.
We still have an empty 55 gallon from our ongoing tiling project, so the larger ram and discus fry will go into that.
It should be an exciting tank, and I hope the larger tank will help the fry grow faster.
We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on the discus and the German Blue Ram fry to make sure that no one is getting picked on too much.
Hopefully we’ll get everything under control soon, and we’ll be able to put more fish in the fishroom, but even if we can’t it was fun while we tried.
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