Species

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.

Macropharyngodon bipartitus bipartitus

A peaceful shoaling wrasse from the Indian Ocean that thrives in small groups.

Melanotaenia australis

Australia's most widespread rainbowfish, and well worth the wait to color up.

Remora australis

The open-ocean hitchhiker that bonds with whales and baffles hobbyists.

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.

Ctenochaetus flavicauda

A compact reef-grazer with a bright white tail that stands out on the rock face.

Hemiodus atranalis

A lively, peaceful schooling fish built for spacious Amazon biotopes.

Parachromis dovii

A barrel-chested Central American predator that will eat almost anything it can fit in its mouth.

Haplochromis aeneocolor

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

Halichoeres chrysus

A cheerful, all-yellow wrasse that's as easygoing as it looks.

Assessor flavissimus

A tiny reef basslet that casually swims upside down like it's no big deal.

Pomacanthus xanthometopon

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

Paracheilinus flavianalis

A small reef wrasse that puts on dazzling courtship displays in group settings.

Halichoeres garnoti

A Western Atlantic wrasse that transforms dramatically as it matures.

Aulonocara sp. "Stuartgranti Maleri"

A peacock cichlid blazing with yellow and orange from a handful of Malawi islands.

Pseudanthias tuka

A reef-slope schooler draped in purple and yellow, surprisingly manageable in a large system.

Zebrasoma flavescens

Hawaii's iconic reef grazer that earns its keep eating nuisance algae.

Danio rerio

The classic beginner fish that still earns its place in serious community tanks.

Haplochromis latifasciatus

A critically endangered Lake Kyoga cichlid that breeds readily in home aquariums.

Bedotia madagascarensis

A rarely-seen Malagasy rainbowfish with a long hobby history and a complicated identity.