Species

Butis amboinensis

An ambush predator that hunts upside-down under submerged wood

Chaca bankanensis

A master of disguise that lures prey with its own barbels like a living trap.

Luciosoma setigerum

A surface-skimming predator sold under a tangle of wrong names.

Aphanius baeticus

A critically rare Spanish killifish that rewards dedicated keepers willing to help conserve it.

Pseudomystus sp. "Cf Stenomus"

A secretive, predatory catfish that punches above its weight in community tanks.

Hemibagrus wyckioides

A river giant that outgrows nearly every home aquarium and knows no fear.

Akysis portellus

A tiny venomous stream catfish from Myanmar that's easier to keep than it looks.

Akysis pulvinatus

A pint-sized Thai hillstream catfish that hides among rocks and rarely reaches an inch.

Akysis vespertinus

A tiny, venomous stream catfish from Myanmar, rarely seen outside specialist collections.

Clea helena

The snail that hunts other snails. A living solution to pest outbreaks.

Devario pathirana

A rare Sri Lankan danio with bold vertical bars and a lively, boisterous personality.

Amblyeleotris wheeleri

A hardy reef goby that shares its burrow with a nearly blind shrimp partner.

Taenioides cirratus

A snake-like burrowing goby with whiskery barbels and surprising air-breathing ability.

Pangio oblonga

A slender, uniformly dark loach that loves company and hides in plain sight.

Ambastaia nigrolineata

A rare, sociable loach with bold racing stripes and fascinating group behaviors.

Balitoropsis zollingeri

A flat-bodied stream crawler that hops and clings across rocks like no other loach.

Hemibagrus wyckii

A river giant that sees humans as a threat. And acts on it.

Amblydoras nauticus

A hardy little catfish that talks in the dark and rarely shows its face by day.

Parupeneus cyclostomus

A reef-flat hunter that uses whisker-like barbels to sniff out hidden prey.

Boleophthalmus boddarti

A fish that walks on mud and breathes air at the tide's edge.

Pangio shelfordii

A patterned eel-loach from Borneo's blackwater forests, with surprising personality for its size.

Chalinochromis brichardi

A bold little rubble-dweller from Tanganyika's rocky shoreline.

Scolopsis bilineata

A reef carnivore whose juveniles pull off a clever blenny disguise.

Pseudopimelodus bufonius

A boldly patterned South American catfish that's surprisingly easy to keep.

Pseudomystus siamensis

Bold patterned and predatory, this catfish owns whatever bottom it calls home.

Chaca burmensis

A master of ambush disguise that barely moves and eats almost anything alive.

Lepidocephalichthys berdmorei

A sociable little loach that thrives in groups and suits community stream tanks.

Schilbe intermedius

A schooling African catfish that cruises open water with surprising grace.

Pseudacanthicus sp

A spiny, armored catfish from Venezuelan rivers with serious attitude.

Amphiprion chagosensis

A rare Indian Ocean clownfish from one of the world's most remote archipelagos.

Chagunius chagunio

A rarely seen river giant that needs serious space to thrive.

Rhinogobius chiengmaiensis

A pint-sized Thai hill stream goby with a big carnivore's appetite.

Vaillantella maassi

A secretive, eel-like loach with a bold orange dorsal stripe and a sky-high price tag.

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.

Indostomus crocodilus

A tiny armored oddity from Thai blackwater streams, best kept in small groups.