Butterfly Fry Update | 4 Months Old

Butterfly Fry Update | 4 Months Old

The fry are growing like weeds and eating me out of house and home!  No but really, they’re looking more beautiful every day.  Most of them have lost their dark fry color, but there’s one that might possibly stay black...

2013 Goldfish Calendar

2013 Goldfish Calendar

I decided to try something new and made a 2013 wall calendar filled with great photos of awesome fish!  All the photos used are very high resolution, so this should come out looking pretty nice. For anyone interested, the calendar is...

4th of July Goldfish Tank!

4th of July Goldfish Tank!

People are always asking me when I’m going to do another holiday themed tank, so… here you go!  I thought my fish ought to celebrate the Fourth of July with me.  They always seem to get so excited when the decor...

Beautiful Fish, Artfully Photgraphed

Beautiful Fish, Artfully Photgraphed

As some of you may remember, part of my New Year’s Resolution thisyear was to experiment more with different camera lenses and photographytechniques. For the past year I’ve been coveting the Helios44-3 lens after seeing some photos a...

Nerite Snails Update

Nerite Snails Update

My two nerites have been doing a pretty good job of eating the algae and diatoms in my tank so far, but in the big picture, they still haven’t really made much of a dent yet!  It’s been really fun seeing their little bite mark...

Batik Scale Type

Batik Scale Type

If you try, you can easily learn something new about goldfish every day!  Today while researching about the mirrorscale goldfish (some claim this is a koi-goldfish hybrid, while others claim it is pure goldfish), I came across some photos of...

Butterfly Fry Update | 2 Months Old

Butterfly Fry Update | 2 Months Old

My butterfly fry are now just over two months old, and there are 57 left at this time.  They’re starting to look very nice and I’m excited to see how they’ll look at 6 months when we’ll be able to see their adult form...