🛌Bottom dwellers

Corydoras melini

A boldly marked little catfish with a centuries-long lifespan hiding in a two-inch body.

Bagrichthys obscurus

A bottom-dwelling catfish that minds its own business. Unless you're a rival.

Aspidoras pauciradiatus

Tiny Brazilian catfish with a Corydoras personality packed into a one-inch body.

Corydoras sodalis

A long-lived little catfish that genuinely needs the company of its own kind.

Amphiprion perideraion

A soft-pink, gentle clownfish that communicates by popping its jaws.

Synodontis euptera

A long-lived African catfish whose dramatic dorsal fin grows more impressive with age.

Nemacheilus selangoricus

A scrappy little bottom-dweller from Borneo's fast forest streams.

Nemateleotris magnifica

A tiny reef dart with a flame-colored body and an unmistakable sail-like dorsal fin.

Pethia ticto

A quietly charming schooling barb from the foothills of South Asia.

Schistura devdevi

A tiny Himalayan stream loach sometimes traded as the firefly loach.

Dianema urostriatum

A peaceful shoaling catfish that actually uses the midwater column

Corydoras oiapoquensis

A tiny armored catfish from a single river system, surprisingly long-lived.

Homaloptera ogilviei

A tiny blackwater loach that perches on its fin-tips like a lizard at rest.

Homaloptera sexmaculata

A lizard-like hillstream loach that crawls and hops across rocks instead of swimming.

Homalopteroides modestus

A tiny mountain stream loach that crawls and hops across rocks like no other fish.

Homalopteroides nebulosus

A tiny forest-stream loach that crawls and hops rather than swims.

Homalopteroides stephensoni

A rare Bornean hillstream loach that crawls and hops across rocks like a tiny lizard.

Homalopteroides tweediei

A tiny hillstream crawler that hops and clings its way across the riverbed.

A sand-sifting cichlid from the Tocantins that's far calmer than its reputation suggests.

Hypostomus regani

A tough, territorial pleco from the river systems of southern South America.

Sinibotia robusta

A stocky, sociable Chinese loach that rewards patient keepers with fascinating group dynamics.

Nannacara aureocephalus

A dwarf cichlid from blackwater French Guiana with dramatic size differences between sexes.

Pangio doriae

A worm-like peat swamp loach that loves to pile into hiding spots with its companions.

Baryancistrus xanthellus

A bold, boulder-dwelling pleco from Brazil's rapids that doesn't share its territory.

Pterodoras granulosus

A gentle giant that grazes on rainforest fruit and needs serious space.

Balitora brucei

A flattened hill-stream grazer that thrives where the current runs wild.

Elacatinus multifasciatus

A tiny reef cleaner that lives among sea urchin spines in the wild.

Corydoras melanotaenia

A long-bodied, gold-finned cory that's rarer in tanks than it deserves to be.

Mecaenichthys immaculatus

A cool-water damselfish from Australian rocky reefs with attentive parenting instincts.

Stiphodon elegans

A jewel-toned goby built for fast, crystal-clear rainforest streams.

Chromidotilapia guntheri

A mouthbrooding West African cichlid with fascinating shared parental care.

Glyptoperichthys joselimaianus

A hefty Amazonian pleco that breathes air and rules the tank bottom.

Nemateleotris helfrichi

A deep-reef gem that hovers and flicks its tall dorsal fin like a flag.

Archocentrus multispinosus

A tough Central American cichlid with serious parenting instincts and surprising heat tolerance.

Apistogramma hoignei

A dwarf cichlid from the Orinoco with cave-breeding instincts and complex taxonomic intrigue.

Liniparhomaloptera disparis

A tiny mountain stream hillstream loach with surprisingly bold territorial behavior.