Species

Osphronemus goramy

A fish that recognizes its owner and outlives most pets in your house.

Trichogaster fasciata

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

Osphronemus laticlavius

A rare Bornean giant with vivid red-edged fins and genuine personality.

Hippocampus ingens

The largest seahorse in the Pacific, built for life among deep coral branches.

Dichotomyctere sabahensis

A secretive Bornean puffer from brackish mangroves, rarely seen in the trade.

Macrochirichthys macrochirus

A river giant with an upturned jaw and swordlike pectoral fins rarely seen in home tanks.

Hydrocynus goliath

Razor-toothed Congo predator that most aquariums, and fishkeepers, simply cannot handle.

Hypostomus regani

A tough, territorial pleco from the river systems of southern South America.

Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii

A true river giant that demands a seriously large commitment.

Zungaro zungaro

A river giant that grows big enough to swallow your other fish whole.

Nimbochromis venustus

The Lake Malawi cichlid that hunts by playing dead

Devario sp. "Giraffe"

A giraffe-patterned danionin built for roomy, lively community tanks.

Puntius guganio

A peaceful, schooling barb from South Asia that science hasn't fully figured out yet.

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 geminus

A ghostly schooling catfish that drifts through the water column like smoke

Kryptopterus limpok

A schooling glass catfish cousin rarely seen outside its native rivers

Kryptopterus vitreolus

The see-through catfish that disappears in plain sight

Parambassis siamensis

A transparent Southeast Asian schooler that hides in plain sight.

Charax gibbosus

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

Trigonopoma pauciperforatum

A slender, stripe-bearing rasbora that thrives in soft, tea-colored forest water.

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.

Barbodes semifasciolatus

The golden form that fooled generations of fishkeepers into thinking it was the real thing.

Ilyodon furcidens

A livebearer with a quasi-placenta and fork-shaped teeth. Genuinely unlike most aquarium fish.

Centropyge aurantia

A rarely photographed dwarf angel that genuinely earns its golden name.

Centropyge heraldi

A clean, all-yellow dwarf angel that's bolder than its simple look suggests.

Brachygobius aggregatus

A tiny bumblebee goby that thrives from freshwater streams to brackish estuaries.

Chaetodon semilarvatus

A bold golden butterflyfish from the Red Sea that pairs for life.

Apogon aureus

A social reef dweller that rearranges its social life with the seasons.

Sinibotia robusta

A stocky, sociable Chinese loach that rewards patient keepers with fascinating group dynamics.

Thorichthys aureus

A Central American cichlid with electric blue shimmer and real personality to match.

Channa aurantimaculata

Bold orange-blotched predator that keeps you guessing, even with tankmates it knows well.

Pethia gelius

A tiny, peaceable barb that shows its best colors in a tight-knit group.

Nannacara anomala

A tiny cichlid that punches well above its weight come breeding time.

Nannacara aureocephalus

A dwarf cichlid from blackwater French Guiana with dramatic size differences between sexes.