Species

Mogurnda mogurnda

A bold Australian bottom-dweller with real personality and surprising breeding behavior.

Ctenopoma muriei

A compact African labyrinth fish that punches above its weight in personality.

Asterophysus batrachus

A gulper catfish that can swallow prey nearly twice its own size.

Etroplus maculatus

The only cichlid native to India, with a fascinating cleaning-fish side hustle.

Amphiprion chrysopterus

A large, bold anemonefish from the wide Pacific with serious territorial attitude.

Balistapus undulatus

One of the reef's most aggressive personalities packed into a boldly patterned body.

Biotodoma wavrini

A slender eartheater that thrives in groups and rewards patient, experienced keepers.

Antennarius pictus

A master of disguise that hunts with a built-in fishing rod.

Leiarius pictus

A majestic sailfin catfish only suited to those with truly enormous tanks.

Nothobranchius palmqvisti

A brilliantly colored killifish that lives fast in seasonal African pools.

Takifugu pardalis

A boldly patterned marine puffer with a personality bigger than its tank.

Hoplarchus psittacus

A rare blackwater cichlid that defies its aggressive reputation in the right company.

Aequidens patricki

A rarely traded Peruvian cichlid with a feisty personality and serious collector appeal.

Gonodactylus smithii

A powerful reef predator that punches with the force of a bullet.

Gonodactylus chiragra

A pugnacious little mantis shrimp with a powerful punch and fierce personality.

Carinotetraodon travancoricus

Tiny, fearless, and smart enough to recognize the person feeding it.

Lamprologus stappersi

A tiny Lake Tanganyika shell-dweller with outsized territorial attitude and colony-forming charm.

Luciocephalus aura

A Sumatran swamp predator that breathes air and strikes with lightning speed.

Haplochromis perrieri

A piscivorous Lake Victoria cichlid that will eat anything it can fit in its mouth.

Perrunichthys perruno

A little-known giant catfish from Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo basin.

Brachyplatystoma capapretum

A large Amazonian catfish that lurks in deep river channels far from shore.

Rhinecanthus aculeatus

A bold reef rearanger that sleeps on its side and makes noise when startled.

Crenicichla johanna

A big-mouthed Amazon predator that means business in any large cichlid setup.

Crenicichla lepidota

A torpedo-shaped predator that brings serious personality to a South American biotope.

Pseudotropheus socolofi

One of the calmer mbuna, but still needs its own rules respected.

Polypterus palmas polli

An ancient armored predator that breathes air and prowls the riverbed.

Tetraodon pustulatus

A rare African giant puffer from the Cross River, built for serious keepers.

Melanochromis vermivorus

A schooling mbuna that breaks the mold with genuine shoaling behavior.

Characodon lateralis

A rare Mexican livebearer with a complicated identity and real conservation value.

Pygocentrus nattereri

The world's most notorious fish, and surprisingly misunderstood in the wild.

Amphilophus labiatus

A notoriously aggressive cichlid that somehow also becomes your best friend.

Trachemys scripta elegans

A long-lived turtle that outlasts most aquariums. And many life plans.

Protomelas taeniolatus

A Lake Malawi rock dweller sold under flashy trade names, worth every bit of the hype.

Carinotetraodon lorteti

A tiny puffer with dramatic color-changing ability and surprisingly long lifespan.

Esox americanus americanus

A pint-sized ambush predator that turns patience into a hunting superpower.

Amphilophus calobrensis

A rare Panamanian cichlid with a ferocious personality and fascinating parental behavior.