Northern Lights Aquatics Fish Blog

Happy Independence Day!
The baby rams are still going strong.
I’m really in shock - there was so much fungus on the eggs that I didn’t think anything would hatch.
The only reason that we didn’t take the slate that the eggs were on and clean it up is that Jeff was about to leave when we noticed [...]

Here are a couple of pictures of two of our German Blue Rams and their eggs after they spawned Saturday night.
Unfortunately something got into the aquarium tank after we moved the eggs, and all of them fungused.
In the pictures you can see the larger male in the front guarding the eggs.
It’s funny to watch [...]

The discus spawned on Wednesday - I was surprised at how long the spawning lasted. I watched them for at least three hours.
They spawn a little differently from the German Blue Rams though.
When the rams are spawning the female lays the eggs, then the male goes over the eggs right on top of them [...]

The newest batch of German Rams has disappeared.
They make it to the swimming stage, and we see them eating, but after a few days we wake up and there are less and less of them. The funny thing is that we don’t even find dead babies, it’s like they never existed.
The first batch was [...]