Northern Lights Aquatics Fish Blog

Here’s a picture of my male Australian Desert Goby, Mello Yello.
Right now we still have at least 7 fry, but we’ve counted as many as 11 at one time.
They are so tiny.
We are feeding them live baby brine shrimp, and Hikari First bites, and they seem to be doing well.
Right now they are in a [...]

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 [...]

Ok, Jeff was a very bad boy.
We went out to buy some filters today, and ended up coming home with another betta from The Tropical Fish Shoppe.
He really is beautiful - he’s an iridescent green with hints of lavendar.
We decided to put him in the planted tank, since we already have bettas in our other [...]

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 [...]