Species

Brevibora dorsiocellata

A tiny, peaceful schooler with a vivid flash of green in its eye.

Botia udomritthiruji

A boldly barred Myanmar loach with a lively personality and complex social life.

Silurus glanis

One of the largest freshwater fish alive, and it knows it.

Tetraodon lineatus

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

Phenacogrammus major

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

Corydoras melini

A boldly marked little catfish with a centuries-long lifespan hiding in a two-inch body.

Bagrichthys macropterus

A river-bottom detritivore from Southeast Asia's murky floodplain systems.

Aspidoras pauciradiatus

Tiny Brazilian catfish with a Corydoras personality packed into a one-inch body.

Corydoras delphax

A long-lived armored catfish that breathes air and occasionally blinks at you.

Eirmotus octozona

A tiny, bar-striped cyprinid that rewards patient keepers with natural schooling behavior.

Liosomadoras morrowi

A secretive Peruvian catfish with a nocturnal appetite for its smaller tankmates.

Corydoras sodalis

A long-lived little catfish that genuinely needs the company of its own kind.

Petitella georgiae

The rummy-nose lookalike that rewards those who learn to tell it apart.

Astronotus crassipinnis

A bold, intelligent cichlid that knows your face and owns its territory.

Ophthalmotilapia ventralis

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

Hemigrammus unilineatus

A peaceful shoaler from South America that rewards patient keepers with easy breeding.

Nemacheilus selangoricus

A scrappy little bottom-dweller from Borneo's fast forest streams.

Dawkinsia filamentosa

A large, lively Indian barb whose males grow ornate trailing dorsal fins.

Datnioides microlepis

A boldly barred predator from Southeast Asia's great river systems.

Devario maetaengensis

A compact mountain-stream danio with bold patterning from northern Thailand's cool waters.

Mastacembelus erythrotaenia

A bold, snake-like predator that rewards patient keepers with years of personality.

Pethia ticto

A quietly charming schooling barb from the foothills of South Asia.

Thorichthys meeki

The cichlid that turns its fiery throat into a threat display.

Danio tinwini

A tiny spotted Burmese danio that thrives in numbers and rewards patient keepers.

Sorubimichthys planiceps

A massive Amazonian predator that demands serious space and serious commitment.

Laetacara curviceps

A shy, peaceful dwarf cichlid that earns its 'smiling' nickname with gentle charm.

Mesonauta festivus

A gentle South American cichlid with a bold diagonal stripe and surprising breeding devotion.

Mesonauta guyanae

A gentle Amazonian cichlid that brings calm elegance to the community tank.

Mesonauta insignis

A shy Amazonian cichlid often hiding behind its more famous cousin's name.

Dianema urostriatum

A peaceful shoaling catfish that actually uses the midwater column

Corydoras oiapoquensis

A tiny armored catfish from a single river system, surprisingly long-lived.

Aulonocara stuartgranti

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

Hyphessobrycon flammeus

A fiery Rio native that glows brightest when kept in a proper group.

Anaspidoglanis macrostoma

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

Pinirampus pirinampu

A schooling river giant that needs serious space and serious commitment.

Amphilophus flaveolus

A rare Nicaraguan crater-lake cichlid, living proof of evolution in action.