🐠Schooling fish

Rasbora elegans

A large, peaceful schooler with a bold two-spot pattern rarely seen in shops.

Hemigrammus ulreyi

A peaceful schooling tetra that's rarer in tanks than its charm deserves.

Mystus leucophasis

An upside-down catfish from Myanmar that stays that way. And means business.

Synodontis batensoda

A large African catfish that genuinely swims upside down as its default mode.

Pyrrhulina laeta

A slender Amazonian predator that punches above its small size.

Barilius vagra

A fast, bold hill-stream cyprinid that needs equally assertive tankmates.

Chromis vanderbilti

A small, shoaling Pacific damsel that's genuinely easy on beginners and neighbors alike.

Melanotaenia vanheurni

A rarely seen New Guinea rainbowfish with a very limited wild range.

Rasboroides vaterifloris

A rare Sri Lankan gem that shimmers in red, orange, or yellow depending on where it hatched.

Annamia normani

A fast-water hillstream fish that really needs to be kept in a crowd.

Tanichthys micagemmae

A lesser-known cousin of the white cloud that rewards keepers who look closely.

Corydoras virginiae

A long-lived armored catfish from Peru with a surprisingly personal quirk: it blinks.

Rasbora vulcanus

A tiny, peaceful Sumatran schooler that earns its volcanic trade name.

Akysis vespa

A tiny banded catfish from Myanmar's fast streams, built like a wasp.

Paramisgurnus dabryanus

The tough, peaceful bottom-dweller hiding in plain sight as a different species.

Corydoras weitzmani

A long-lived little catfish that blinks at you from the bottom of the tank.

Bhavania australis

A wild-stream crawler from endangered Indian rivers, rarely seen outside its homeland.

Melanotaenia australis

Australia's most widespread rainbowfish, and well worth the wait to color up.

Tanichthys albonubes

A cold-tolerant schooling fish that practically takes care of itself.

Acanthurus albipectoralis

A reef-edge schooler that hunts open water instead of grazing the bottom.

Axelrodia stigmatias

A tiny Amazonian shoaler that rewards patient keepers with lively social behavior.

Corydoras albolineatus

A white-striped Bolivian cory that occasionally gulps air at the surface.

Hemiodus atranalis

A lively, peaceful schooling fish built for spacious Amazon biotopes.

Catoprion mento

A scale-eating specialist with a dramatic banner-like dorsal fin rarely seen in the hobby.

Geophagus winemilleri

A rare Venezuelan eartheater with vivid spotted fins and fascinating mouthbrooding parental care.

Pristella maxillaris

The see-through tetra whose bold dorsal fin pattern makes a school unforgettable.

Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae

A lively, adaptable tetra that rewards you for keeping it in a proper group.

Ostorhinchus luteus

A tiny Pacific cardinalfish that finds shelter among sea urchin spines.

Pseudanthias luzonensis

A deep-slope reef dweller that schools beautifully in spacious saltwater tanks.

Leporellus vittatus

A bottom-hugging herbivore from South America's major river systems, best kept in groups.

Apogon cyanosoma

A reef-safe schooling cardinalfish that finds safety in numbers and sea urchin spines.

Pseudanthias tuka

A reef-slope schooler draped in purple and yellow, surprisingly manageable in a large system.

Alestopetersius caudalis

A Congo schooling fish where rival males put on their best show

Rasbora tornieri

A surface-skimming schooler with a vivid splash of color on the tail fin.

Hyphessobrycon bifasciatus

A Brazilian tetra with a mysterious golden shimmer that baffles even scientists.

Botia almorhae

The loach that spells its own name, with a personality to match.