Africa

Nimbochromis linni

A crafty Lake Malawi predator that ambushes prey with surprising patience.

Campylomormyrus elephas

A bizarre, long-snouted electric fish from the Congo with serious personality.

Micralestes acutidens

A sleek African tetra that shares its wild home with the fearsome tigerfish.

Aphyosemion striatum

A peaceful, long-lived killifish that's genuinely beginner-friendly and easy to breed.

Tetraodon lineatus

A large, aggressive African puffer that will bite the hand that feeds it. Literally.

Neolamprologus brichardi

A Lake Tanganyika cichlid that raises its young as a multigenerational family group.

Phenacogrammus major

A peaceful Congo basin schooler that rewards keepers willing to do their homework.

Papyrocranus afer

A rare African giant with a striking undulating fin and a fierce attitude.

Ophthalmotilapia ventralis

A Lake Tanganyika mouthbrooder with famously elaborate fin lure breeding tricks.

Cyathopharynx furcifer

A plankton-picking Tanganyikan with spectacular breeding craters and fin-tip lures.

Synodontis euptera

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

Protomelas fenestratus

A peaceful Malawi cichlid with a clever trick for finding buried food.

Aulonocara stuartgranti

A Lake Malawi peacock that shifts color by geography, blue in the north, yellow in the south.

Anaspidoglanis macrostoma

A burrowing African catfish with a big appetite and bigger attitude toward tankmates.

Melanotaenia sexlineata

A rarely seen rainbowfish from Papua New Guinea's remote rainforest creeks.

Carettochelys insculpta

A fully aquatic turtle with flippers, a pig-like snout, and a serious attitude.

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

Neolamprologus tetracanthus

A sand-dwelling Lake Tanganyika predator with a clever trick for eating snails.

Gymnothorax polyuranodon

A true freshwater moray that mistakes fingers for fish when hungry.

Gymnarchus niloticus

A five-foot electric predator that will bite the hand that feeds it.

Lamprologus ocellatus

Pocket-sized cichlid with big personality, built around a borrowed shell

Cyphotilapia gibberosa

A deep-water Lake Tanganyika cichlid with a signature forehead hump and unusual social grace.

Cyphotilapia frontosa

A long-lived Lake Tanganyika giant with a signature forehead hump and surprising personality.

Aphyosemion gabunense gabunense

A gentle Gabonese killifish that rewards patient, attentive keepers.

Pseudomugil gertrudae

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

Boulengerochromis microlepis

The largest African cichlid, built like a predator and almost as big as your arm.

Himantura chaophraya

One of the world's largest freshwater rays, and not for the faint-hearted.

Hydrocynus goliath

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

Nimbochromis venustus

The Lake Malawi cichlid that hunts by playing dead

Julidochromis ornatus

A rock-hugging Tanganyikan cichlid that bonds for life with its partner.

Baryancistrus xanthellus

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

Stiphodon rutilaureus

A tiny, rock-hugging stream goby from the clear rivers of Melanesia.

Pseudotropheus tropheops

A rock-dwelling Malawi cichlid with a surprisingly forceful approach to eating algae.

Melanotaenia goldiei

A large, active rainbowfish from the wild rivers and swamps of New Guinea.

Aphyosemion australe

A gentle, long-lived killifish and a perfect gateway into the killi hobby.