NorthlandWildlife.com Website
Northland Wildlife Studio now has a new Website! We’re currently adding more content to it, so check back periodically for updates. This will help the gift shop and taxidermy reach out to their customers.
Fish Friends
Rosalind has been talking about having fish as pets this summer, so we decided to put together the aquarium again. This is a multi-day process that insures everything that goes into the aquarium is clean for its inhabitants - both animal and botanical. The rock collection we have available for the aquarium includes rocks from 5 different U.S. States. They all blend into the environment seamlessly. I get most of the water from our dehumidifier, which works pretty well since I know the water is pure from condensation. This year I purchased some live native aquatic plants including Hornwort to give an added touch of realism. After we had everything ready we went down to the park to catch our pets. Within a couple hours we caught a bunch of pumpkinseeds, bluegills, and a green sunfish (these are shaped more like a largemouth bass). We picked out 2 bluegills, 2 pumpkinseeds and the green sunfish to be the occupants of the aquarium. The fish adjust quickly to their new surrounding. Last time I had bluegills they liked eating a pet store bought food called tubefex worms but this lot was rather indifferent. They liked red worms and wax worms but I prefer to get non-live food for them to eat on a daily basis. It’s just easier and cleaner to deal with. So I’m trying dried meal worms now. They seem to really love those. The fish get use to people coming into the room and will swim to front and wait to be feed. They are very smart fish. They have a definite pecking order. The green sunfish seems to be on top followed by the others by size. I really enjoy keeping fish. It will be sad to see them go back to the pond after the summer is over.
Alaska 2008 and Mike and Corine’s Wedding
We had a wonderful time in Alaska! It was a quick trip that came to end too soon after we arrived. I stood up for Mike and Corine’s wedding as a groomsmen and Rosalind got to be a beautiful flower girl with her hair all done up. The wedding went really well and Bride and Groom are very happy together. We wish them luck! After the wedding Jean, Rosalind, Roger and I headed up to Wasilla to stay at the Agate Inn. We got to pet and feed their reindeer and explore the Matanuska valley. We went up to Sutton to the Jonesville coal mine where we found tons of great Eocene Age leaf fossils and petrified wood. I also found out that the health care professionals in Wasilla are top notch, since I had to go to the ER to be diagnosed with acute conjunctivitis. I am much better now and we are enjoying all this wonderful water/rain back in Wisconsin.