Oceania

Butis amboinensis

An ambush predator that hunts upside-down under submerged wood

Pseudomugil signifer

Australia's tiny blue-eyed shoaler thrives where streams meet the sea.

Scleropages jardinii

Australia's own arowana, and arguably the most aggressive of the family.

Melanotaenia fluviatilis

Australia's most cold-tolerant rainbowfish, built for temperate rivers and cool winters.

Ophisternon gutturale

A secretive, air-breathing eel that hides in mud and comes alive after dark.

Chilatherina axelrodi

A rare Papua New Guinean gem found in just one stream on Earth.

Lates calcarifer

A giant predator that outgrows almost every aquarium on earth.

Toxotes jaculatrix

The fish that hunts above water, shooting insects down with pinpoint accuracy.

Melanotaenia trifasciata

A dazzling Australian native whose true colors take patience to reveal.

Ophisternon bengalense

A burrow-building, air-breathing swamp predator that blurs the line between eel and snake.

Neoarius berneyi

A wide-ranging Australian catfish that thrives in murky, slow-moving water.

Chilatherina bleheri

A brilliantly colored rainbowfish from one remote Indonesian lake, worth every bit of effort.

Pseudomugil cyanodorsalis

A tiny blue-backed rainbowfish relative from Australia's brackish mangrove creeks.

Melanotaenia boesemani

Two fish in one body: bold orange rear, cool blue-grey front.

Hypseleotris compressa

An Australian goby with dazzling breeding colors and one of nature's tiniest vertebrate eggs.

Stiphodon semoni

A tiny rainforest stream goby with big personality and territorial tendencies.

Cnidoglanis macrocephalus

A peaceful Australian giant that hides by day and hunts by night.

Butis butis

The brackish ambush predator that hunts just as happily upside down as right-side up.

Terapon jarbua

A wide-ranging estuarine predator that bridges salt and freshwater with ease.

Pseudomugil tenellus

A tiny, peaceful Australian blue-eye that glows in a well-planted, sun-drenched tank.

Melanotaenia splendida splendida

Australia's most variable rainbowfish, with color that takes a year to fully reveal itself.

Melanotaenia splendida

A bold, active schooling fish that rewards with brilliant colors and personality.

Hemiscyllium ocellatum

A reef-walking shark that shuts down its own brain to survive low oxygen.

Riccia fluitans

A floating liverwort that pearls with oxygen bubbles when truly happy.

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 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

Gymnothorax polyuranodon

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

Pseudomugil gertrudae

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

Himantura chaophraya

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

Glossostigma elatinoides

The classic carpeting plant that rewards high light with a lush, creeping lawn.

Stiphodon rutilaureus

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

Melanotaenia goldiei

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

Pristis microdon

An ancient, river-roaming giant whose rostrum is both weapon and legend.