🐠Schooling fish

Craterocephalus stercusmuscarum stercusmuscarum

A peaceful Australian schooling fish with a surprisingly complex genetic story.

Craterocephalus stercusmuscarum

A peaceful Australian native that rewards patient keepers with lively schooling behavior.

Pseudomugil furcatus

Tiny Papua New Guinea gem that puts on its best show in a proper group

Acanthurus fowleri

A reef-cruising grazer that roams seaward drop-offs in loose schools

Dermogenys pusilla

A surface-skimming livebearer with a jaw made for dueling

Hemigrammus pulcher

A peaceful, colorful little tetra that thrives in numbers and suits most community tanks.

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.

Pseudomugil gertrudae

Tiny rainforest blue-eye that rewards patient keepers with dazzling fin displays.

Corydoras geryi

A larger, long-lived cory from Bolivia that rewards patient, attentive keepers.

Devario aequipinnatus

A boldly striped, fast-moving schooler that brings real energy to larger community tanks.

Devario malabaricus

A fast-moving, deep-bodied danio that needs space and confident tankmates.

Trichogaster fasciata

A peaceful, rarely seen gourami that's actually worth hunting down.

Hydrocynus goliath

Razor-toothed Congo predator that most aquariums, and fishkeepers, simply cannot handle.

Devario sp. "Giraffe"

A giraffe-patterned danionin built for roomy, lively community tanks.

Puntius guganio

A peaceful, schooling barb from South Asia that science hasn't fully figured out yet.

Prionobrama filigera

A peaceful, transparent schooling fish with a blood-red tail that earns its name.

Kryptopterus bicirrhis

The living ghost: almost entirely see-through and best kept in a school.

Kryptopterus geminus

A ghostly schooling catfish that drifts through the water column like smoke

Kryptopterus limpok

A schooling glass catfish cousin rarely seen outside its native rivers

Kryptopterus vitreolus

The see-through catfish that disappears in plain sight

Parambassis siamensis

A transparent Southeast Asian schooler that hides in plain sight.

Charax gibbosus

A rarely-seen South American oddity with a see-through body and a quirky head-down posture.

Trigonopoma pauciperforatum

A slender, stripe-bearing rasbora that thrives in soft, tea-colored forest water.

Trigonostigma hengeli

A tiny, soft-water schooler with a vivid orange-edged lambchop mark.

Hemigrammus erythrozonus

A fiery neon stripe makes this hardy little tetra a beginner's best friend.

Barbodes semifasciolatus

The golden form that fooled generations of fishkeepers into thinking it was the real thing.

Brachygobius aggregatus

A tiny bumblebee goby that thrives from freshwater streams to brackish estuaries.

Apogon aureus

A social reef dweller that rearranges its social life with the seasons.

Sinibotia robusta

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

Pethia gelius

A tiny, peaceable barb that shows its best colors in a tight-knit group.

Pangio doriae

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