🛌Bottom dwellers

Thorichthys pasionis

A lesser-known Central American cichlid with bold personality and a distinctive dark throat.

Pangio oblonga

A slender, uniformly dark loach that loves company and hides in plain sight.

Ambastaia nigrolineata

A rare, sociable loach with bold racing stripes and fascinating group behaviors.

Balitoropsis zollingeri

A flat-bodied stream crawler that hops and clings across rocks like no other loach.

Acanthurus nigrofuscus

A schooling grazer that overwhelms rivals through sheer numbers.

Auchenoglanis biscutatus

A giant, gentle African catfish that cruises the bottom with calm authority.

Acanthurus nigricauda

A wide-ranging Indo-Pacific grazer that bucks the typical surgeonfish habitat

Geophagus brachybranchus

A sand-sifting eartheater with elaborate mouthbrooding parental care and a surprisingly gentle nature.

Corydoras acutus

A sharp-snouted little armored catfish with a bold black dorsal spot.

Nemacheilus troglocataractus

A blind, cave-dwelling loach from a single Thai cave system.

Schistura jarutanini

A blind cave loach from Thailand that science knows from just 22 specimens.

Yasuhikotakia modesta

A sociable Mekong loach with vivid fins and a complex social life.

Corydoras nattereri

A long-lived, sociable bottom-dweller that breathes air and blinks at you.

Amblydoras nauticus

A hardy little catfish that talks in the dark and rarely shows its face by day.

Chromis viridis

A shimmering, peaceful schooling fish that brings reef lagoons to life in your tank.

Amphiprion latezonatus

A rare Australian clownfish with bold white bands and a surprisingly deep blue lip.

Paracyprichromis nigripinnis

A peaceful Tanganyikan schooler that hangs vertically against rock walls to spawn.

Stiphodon atropurpureus

A thumbnail-sized stream goby that grazes biofilm and occasionally vanishes into the sand.

Opistognathus rosenblatti

A colonial burrower that tucks itself in every night like clockwork.

Boleophthalmus boddarti

A fish that walks on mud and breathes air at the tide's edge.

Corydoras boesemani

A tiny armored catfish from Suriname that breathes air and stays rare in the hobby.

Corydoras bilineatus

A long-lived Bolivian cory that breathes air and blinks at you.

Mikrogeophagus altispinosus

The hardier, more forgiving cousin of the popular ram cichlid.

Trachydoras steindachneri

A seldom-seen Amazonian thorny catfish that plays well with smaller tankmates.

Pangio shelfordii

A patterned eel-loach from Borneo's blackwater forests, with surprising personality for its size.

Gastromyzon ctenocephalus

A tiny Bornean hillstream crawler with iridescent blue fins and bold spotted patterns.

Gastromyzon farragus

A tiny Bornean stream-clinger with a vivid red tail and bold territorial streaks.

Gastromyzon stellatus

A boldly spotted Bornean stream crawler that grazes rocks like a tiny vacuum.

Gramma brasiliensis

A cave-dwelling Brazilian basslet that happily swims upside down along rocky ceilings.

Ancistrus macrophthalmus

A compact Venezuelan bushynose with the rare ability to breathe air directly.

Ancistrus dolichopterus

The classic bristlenose pleco, with a face full of tentacles and a big personality.

Ancistrus cirrhosus

The algae-scrubbing catfish with a face only a fishkeeper could love.

Brochis britskii

A deep-bodied armored catfish with an unusually tall dorsal fin and peaceful nature.

Corydoras britskii

A big-dorsal Cory with armored charm, best kept in a lively group.

Corydoras duplicareus

A long-lived armored catfish with a bold nape patch and a tricky look-alike

Corydoras aeneus

The beginner-friendly bottom dweller that breathes air and blinks at you.