Species

Acanthicus adonis

A spotted pleco that outgrows almost every home aquarium it enters.

Erethistes jerdoni

A tiny, peaceful catfish that hides by day and explores by night.

Chaca bankanensis

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

Ophisternon gutturale

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

Schistura jarutanini

A blind cave loach from Thailand that science knows from just 22 specimens.

Amblydoras nauticus

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

Opistognathus rosenblatti

A colonial burrower that tucks itself in every night like clockwork.

Trachydoras steindachneri

A seldom-seen Amazonian thorny catfish that plays well with smaller tankmates.

Horabagrus brachysoma

A gorgeous giant catfish that outgrows most home tanks before you know it.

Pseudopimelodus bufonius

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

Schistura deansmarti

A blind, ghostly cave loach found nowhere else on Earth.

Vaillantella maassi

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

Synodontis decorum

A boldly patterned Congo catfish with a dramatically elongated dorsal fin ray.

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.

Dactylopus dactylopus

A sand-walking dragonet that tiptoes across the seafloor on finger-like fins.

Lepidocephalichthys jonklaasi

A rare Sri Lankan loach hidden beneath leaf litter, seldom seen in the hobby.

Bagrus meridionalis

A giant Lake Malawi catfish with one of the most complex social lives in freshwater.

Pangio kuhlii

The eel-like bottom dweller that disappears for weeks and reappears at midnight.

Pangio cuneovirgata

A rare kuhli lookalike from blackwater peat swamps, seldom seen outside expert collections.

Pangio piperata

A speckled, secretive kuhli loach that turns up as a mystery in mixed shipments.

Cleidopus gloriamaris

A living lantern: the fish that carries its own lights on its jaw.

Pangio semicincta

The fish sold as kuhli loach is almost certainly this one instead.

Melanoides tuberculata

The tireless substrate burrower that aerates your gravel while you sleep.

Oxyeleotris marmorata

A motionless giant that eats anything fitting in its enormous mouth.

Hara jerdoni

A moth-like micro catfish from Indian hill streams, best kept in groups.

Synodontis albolineata

A small, community-friendly squeaker from Cameroon and Gabon that rarely reaches the trade.

Pterygoplichthys multiradiatus

A dinosaur-sized algae grazer built for decades of service in large tanks.

Rhynchodoras woodsi

A rarely seen Amazonian catfish with a mysterious bony beak-like projection

Chitala blanci

A massive Mekong predator that will outgrow almost any home aquarium.

Neosilurus brevidorsalis

A compact Australian bottom-dweller that earns its keep in a peaceful community tank.

Pangio muraeniformis

A slithery little bottom-dweller with a bold spotted pattern and a 10-year lifespan.

Synodontis robbianus

A compact, hardy West African catfish that's surprisingly manageable for beginners.

Heteropneustes fossilis

A tough, air-breathing catfish that comes with a genuinely painful warning.

Plotosus lineatus

The only catfish that calls coral reefs home, and it comes armed.

Trachelyopterichthys taeniatus

A boldly patterned Amazonian catfish that thrives in community tanks.