Species

Pareutropius longifilis

A shy but lively African schooling fish that thrives in numbers

Mylossoma duriventre

A deep-bodied South American schooler that belongs in serious, large setups.

Gymnocorymbus bondi

A peaceful Orinoco schooler that's more interesting than its plain adult looks suggest.

Distichodus sexfasciatus

A boldly striped river giant that outgrows most aquariums and most owners' expectations.

Trichopodus pectoralis

A big, peaceful gourami with wild origins in the flooded forests of Southeast Asia.

Acanthurus sohal

A bold Red Sea beauty that rules its territory with zero tolerance for rivals.

Melanotaenia fredericki

A compact Indonesian rainbowfish with vivid color that rewards attentive keepers.

Brycinus imberi

A wide-ranging African schooler that brings energy and size to larger tanks.

Heterandria bimaculata

A bold Central American livebearer with attitude to match its size.

Metynnis maculatus

A schooling cousin of the piranha that mostly just wants to eat your plants.

Pangasionodon hypophthalmus

Sold as a tiny silver juvenile, grows into a tank-busting giant.

Metynnis fasciatus

A compact, banded silver dollar from the heart of the Amazon basin.

Neolissochilus sumatranus

A sleek Sumatran river barb that rewards patient, attentive keepers.

Glossolepis pseudoincisus

A rare New Guinea rainbowfish from a single remote lake, never rediscovered.

Lamprichthys tanganicanus

The only killifish native to Lake Tanganyika, and unlike any other in the family.

Amatitlania sajica

A compact Costa Rican cichlid with fierce parental instincts packed into a small frame.

Carassius auratus var. telescope

The dramatically bug-eyed fancy goldfish that trades agility for personality.

Acarichthys heckelii

A cichlid with elaborate burrowing spawning behavior unlike almost anything else in the hobby.

Dascyllus trimaculatus

A bold reef dweller that gets feistier with every passing year.

Leporinus friderici

A large, fruit-eating South American fish that swims with serious personality.

Inlecypris maetaengensis

A tiny Thai mountain-stream schooler sold as tiger danio, worth a closer look.

Barbonymus schwanenfeldii

A shimmering river giant that rapidly outgrows most home aquariums.

Ctenochaetus tominiensis

A compact reef grazer with vivid fin tips that earns its keep cleaning algae.

Champsochromis caeruleus

The trout cichlid: a solitary Lake Malawi predator built around an enormous mouth.

Telmatochromis bifrenatus

A compact Tanganyikan rock-dweller with fascinating pair-bonding behavior.

Astyanax bimaculatus

A robust South American characin that rewards keepers willing to think big.

Mystus leucophasis

An upside-down catfish from Myanmar that stays that way. And means business.

Copadichromis borleyi

A peaceful Malawi cichlid that rewards patient keepers with vivid color morphs and fascinating breeding behavior.

Chromis vanderbilti

A small, shoaling Pacific damsel that's genuinely easy on beginners and neighbors alike.

Melanotaenia vanheurni

A rarely seen New Guinea rainbowfish with a very limited wild range.

Xiphophorus variatus

Dozens of color forms, endless fry, and tolerant enough for any community tank.

Carassius auratus var. veiltail

The flowing, split tail of fancy goldfish taken to its most dramatic extreme.

Tropheus duboisi

Juvenile leopard pattern fades into something completely different as adults.

Axelrodia stigmatias

A tiny Amazonian shoaler that rewards patient keepers with lively social behavior.

Haplochromis aeneocolor

A papyrus-shore cichlid from Uganda's Lake George, small but full of character.

Pomacanthus xanthometopon

A reef-grazing giant whose juvenile and adult forms look like different fish entirely.