Species

Centropyge bispinosa

A reef-dwelling dwarf angel with bold color and a feisty personality.

Lamontichthys llanero

A rare South American whiptail that rewards patient keepers with unusual character.

Chaetodon vagabundus

A wide-ranging reef butterfly that pairs for life and patrols its territory together.

Chaetodon xanthurus

The only butterflyfish with a true crosshatch pattern on its sides.

Bodianus pulchellus

A reef-safe wrasse relative that moonlights as a cleaner fish when young.

Biotodoma cupido

A peaceful community cichlid that rewards keepers who buy a proper group.

Paretroplus maculatus

A rare Malagasy cichlid that rewards patient keepers with real personality.

Placidochromis electra

A sand-sifting Malawi hap gentle enough to keep with Aulonocara and Copadichromis.

Ectodus descampsii

A shy, sand-dwelling Tanganyikan cichlid that needs its own kind to feel secure.

Aequidens diadema

A compact blackwater cichlid from the wild heart of the Amazon and Orinoco.

Krobia itanyi

A subtly beautiful South American cichlid with surprisingly gentle manners for the genus.

Chaetodon pelewensis

A Pacific beauty that pairs for life and takes well to aquarium living.

Chaetodon falcula

A boldly patterned butterflyfish best kept by those who know their reef chemistry.

Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki

A daylight-active schooling loach with a bold ladder-patterned back and big personality.

Peckoltia brevis

A feisty dwarf pleco from Brazil's Purus River with surprisingly bold attitude.

Geophagus proximus

A sand-sifting cichlid that's gentler than its 'aggressive' label suggests.

Geophagus steindachneri

A harem-forming eartheater with a complex personality and mouthbrooding surprises.

Amphiprion sandaracinos

A solid stripe from nose to dorsal fin sets this all-orange clownfish apart.

Chelmonops truncatus

A deep-bodied Australian butterflyfish that lives life strictly in pairs.

Labidochromis caeruleus

The most beginner-friendly mbuna, wearing a yellow that's rarer in the wild than you'd think.

Corydoras splendens

A larger, iridescent cory that schooled under a different genus name for decades.

Chaetodon paucifasciatus

A Red Sea gem with bold chevron patterning and a loyal pair bond.

Neolamprologus brichardi

A Lake Tanganyika cichlid that raises its young as a multigenerational family group.

Amphiprion perideraion

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

Carassius auratus var. fantail

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

Ophthalmotilapia ventralis

A Lake Tanganyika mouthbrooder with famously elaborate fin lure breeding tricks.

Cyathopharynx furcifer

A plankton-picking Tanganyikan with spectacular breeding craters and fin-tip lures.

Synodontis euptera

A long-lived African catfish whose dramatic dorsal fin grows more impressive with age.

A sand-sifting cichlid from the Tocantins that's far calmer than its reputation suggests.

Chaetodon semilarvatus

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

Nannacara aureocephalus

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

Julidochromis ornatus

A rock-hugging Tanganyikan cichlid that bonds for life with its partner.

Baryancistrus xanthellus

A bold, boulder-dwelling pleco from Brazil's rapids that doesn't share its territory.

Alcolapia grahami

A cichlid from one of Earth's most extreme lakes, built to survive where others cannot.

Balitora brucei

A flattened hill-stream grazer that thrives where the current runs wild.

Mecaenichthys immaculatus

A cool-water damselfish from Australian rocky reefs with attentive parenting instincts.