Species

Acanthurus achilles

A bold, reef-grazing surgeon with a vivid orange tail patch and a fiery attitude toward rivals.

Monodactylus sebae

A bold brackish schooler from West Africa that needs space and company to truly thrive.

Colomesus asellus

The only true schooling puffer, and it comes from the Amazon.

Pomacanthus asfur

A bold Red Sea beauty with a dramatic yellow arc that transforms with age.

Pao suvattii

A lurking ambush predator from the Mekong that barely moves until food arrives.

Colomesus psittacus

A peaceful Atlantic puffer that genuinely tolerates company of its own kind.

Canthigaster valentini

A pint-sized puffer so bold that other fish evolved just to copy it.

Acanthurus bariene

A deep-reef surgeonfish that needs serious space and earns its keep over decades.

Stegastes leucostictus

A small, personable damselfish that tends its own algae garden on the reef floor.

Canthigaster bennetti

A pint-sized puffer with big personality and a surprisingly calm disposition.

Holacanthus bermudensis

A bold Atlantic angel that grows into a true reef monarch with attitude to match.

Centropyge bicolor

A boldly two-toned dwarf angel that darts and hides across the reef.

Siganus uspi

A bold Fijian reef fish with a dramatic two-tone pattern and venomous spines.

Pomacanthus arcuatus

A large, sociable Atlantic angel that juveniles moonlight as reef cleaning stations.

Bodianus mesothorax

A boldly two-toned wrasse with a sharp contrast that practically splits it in half.

Rhinecanthus verrucosus

A Picasso-patterned triggerfish that prefers retreat over confrontation.

Gramma melacara

A deep-reef beauty that swims upside-down along underwater cliff faces.

Halichoeres poeyi

A bold Atlantic wrasse with a sharp temper for its own kind.

Sufflamen chrysopterum

A hardy, boldly patterned triggerfish with a surprisingly calm disposition for the group.

Scarus guacamaia

The largest Atlantic parrotfish, built for reefs but almost impossible to keep captive.

Pomacanthus annularis

A large Indo-Pacific angel whose juvenile and adult look like two different fish.

Labroides dimidiatus

The reef's original cleaning service, running a one-fish parasite removal station.

Pseudochromis springeri

A bold little reef predator wrapped in electric blue and black.

Paracanthurus hepatus

The fish that plays dead, then rules the reef with bold personality.

Acanthurus coeruleus

A bold Atlantic surgeon fish known for cleaning sea turtles in the wild.

Xenopterus naritus

A freshwater-adapted puffer from Southeast Asian rivers, rarely seen in the trade.

Hypoplectrus unicolor

A Caribbean reef predator surprisingly well-suited to beginner saltwater tanks.

Pao cochinchinensis

A compact, ornery puffer from Southeast Asian rivers with outsized personality.

Canthigaster rostrata

A pint-sized Atlantic puffer with a big personality and a beak to match.

Halichoeres richmondi

A reef-dwelling wrasse that moves in loose social groups across coral-rich shallows.

Coris gaimard

A wrasse that completely reinvents its look from juvenile to adult.

Acanthurus triostegus

A reef grazer wearing prison stripes, and surprisingly easy to get along with.

Chaetodon vagabundus

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

Colomesus tocantinensis

A tiny puffer from Brazilian waters, surprisingly manageable for newer keepers.

Cirrhilabrus exquisitus

A flamboyant fairy wrasse that puts on constant courtship displays in the reef tank.

Centropyge fisheri

A compact, warm-toned pygmy angel that holds its own on the reef.