Species

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.

Pethia gelius

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

Valenciennea strigata

A sand-sifting goby that pairs for life and keeps your substrate spotless.

Pangio doriae

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

Boulengerella lucius

A torpedo-shaped ambush predator that outgrows most home aquariums fast.

Stiphodon rutilaureus

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

Isis hippuris

A branching golden sea fan that brings genuine wild-reef structure to the home aquarium.

Hyphessobrycon roseus

A tiny, rosy schooling tetra that thrives in peaceful community tanks.

Pseudotropheus tropheops

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

Leporacanthicus heterodon

A fang-toothed South American pleco with a surprisingly manageable personality.

Puntius sachsii

A feisty little schooling barb that keeps tanks lively. And fins on their toes.

Hypsibarbus malcolmi

A big, bold barb with golden fins that needs room to roam.

Carassius auratus auratus

The fish that started it all. Centuries of selective breeding in one bowl-worthy package.

Baryancistrus sp. "Cf Xanthellus"

A gold-spotted Xingu pleco with a temperament that gets feistier with age.

Serrasalmus maculatus

A fin-biting South American predator that's actually one of the easier piranhas to keep.

Cypraea annulus

A small Indo-Pacific cowrie with a distinctive golden ring and peaceful nature.

Crossocheilus cobitis

A bottom-dwelling algae eater from Southeast Asia's great river systems.

Favia fragum

A compact Atlantic coral that fits anywhere and forgives beginner mistakes.

Canthophrys gongota

A rarely traded loach from Himalayan foothills that rewards patient, specialist keepers.

Pleuractis granulosa

A free-living mushroom coral with a satisfyingly textured, bumpy surface.

Palythoa mutuki

A hardy Indo-Pacific zoanthid that earns its place on beginner reef tanks.

Cabomba aquatica

Feathery South American stem plant that thrives in groups and rewards moderate light.

Helioseris cucullata

A low-light Caribbean coral that forgives beginner mistakes and stays reef safe.

Clavularia viridis

A hardy, low-light soft coral that spreads cheerfully across rock and substrate.

Aplocheilus blockii

A surface-dwelling predator from India's rice fields and mangrove edges.

Mecaenichthys immaculatus

A cool-water damselfish from Australian rocky reefs with attentive parenting instincts.

Nannostomus marilynae

A rare pencilfish that moonlights in cryptic stripes every single night.

Andinoacara rivulatus

A bold, beautiful cichlid that will absolutely rearrange your community tank.

Betta chloropharynx

A tiny wild betta from blackwater leaf litter pools, with a throat like no other.

Xenia viridis

A beginner-friendly soft coral native to New Caledonian reefs.

Palythoa tuberculosa

A hardy reef flat zoanthid that forms dense, encrusting colonies across the Indo-Pacific.

Notopterus notopterus

A nocturnal predator that outgrows most home aquariums faster than expected.