Species

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.

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.

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.

Amphiprion perideraion

A soft-pink, gentle clownfish that communicates by popping its jaws.

Acanthopsoides namromensis

A tiny, rarely kept Vietnamese loach with quiet charm for the patient aquarist.

Hyphessobrycon simulatus

A rarely seen French Guiana tetra that rewards patient hobbyists with graceful schooling behavior.

Tomiyamichthys latruncularius

A reef sand-flat goby that shares its burrow with a snapping shrimp partner.

Carassius auratus var. fantail

The gateway fancy goldfish. Forgiving, long-lived, and shaped like a swimming egg.

Devario maetaengensis

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

Schistura devdevi

A tiny Himalayan stream loach sometimes traded as the firefly loach.

Danio tinwini

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

Laetacara curviceps

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

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.

Hyphessobrycon flammeus

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

Cirrhilabrus jordani

Hawaii's most vivid wrasse, blazing red and orange across reef drop-offs.

Melanotaenia sexlineata

A rarely seen rainbowfish from Papua New Guinea's remote rainforest creeks.

Craterocephalus stercusmuscarum

A peaceful Australian native that rewards patient keepers with lively schooling behavior.

Pseudomugil furcatus

Tiny Papua New Guinea gem that puts on its best show in a proper group

Hemigrammus pulcher

A peaceful, colorful little tetra that thrives in numbers and suits most community tanks.

Pseudomugil gertrudae

Tiny rainforest blue-eye that rewards patient keepers with dazzling fin displays.

Corydoras geryi

A larger, long-lived cory from Bolivia that rewards patient, attentive keepers.

Palaemonetes paludosus

Nearly transparent and endlessly busy, ghost shrimp are a perfect starter invertebrate.

Catlocarpio siamensis

One of the world's largest freshwater fish, and a conservation concern in its native rivers.

Tridacna gigas

The largest bivalve on Earth, and a true centerpiece for the reef tank.

Trichogaster fasciata

A peaceful, rarely seen gourami that's actually worth hunting down.

Prionobrama filigera

A peaceful, transparent schooling fish with a blood-red tail that earns its name.

Kryptopterus bicirrhis

The living ghost: almost entirely see-through and best kept in a school.

Kryptopterus vitreolus

The see-through catfish that disappears in plain sight

Charax gibbosus

A rarely-seen South American oddity with a see-through body and a quirky head-down posture.

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.