Species Profiles
2742 articles- Cinnamon Clownfish Care GuideAmphiprion melanopus, the cinnamon clownfish, is a hardy western Pacific anemonefish with a reddish body and a single white head bar. It is
- Platinum Percula Clownfish Care GuideThe Platinum Percula is a captive-bred, almost fully white Amphiprion percula designer line with thin black outlines. Care follows the wild
- Onyx Percula Clownfish Care GuideThe Onyx Percula is a heavily melanistic Amphiprion percula strain with an almost black body and orange face. Care follows the wild percula
- Picasso Percula Clownfish Care GuideThe Picasso Percula is a captive-bred Amphiprion percula selection with broken, irregular white bars. Husbandry follows the wild percula clo
- Bullet Hole Clownfish Care GuideThe Bullet Hole is a captive-bred Amphiprion ocellaris designer morph marked by a round orange spot punched through an eye bar. Care follows
- MochaVinci Clownfish Care GuideThe MochaVinci is a captive-bred Amphiprion ocellaris designer line with a dark body and branching white pattern, created by crossing Mocha
- Premium Ocellaris Clownfish Care GuidePremium Ocellaris is a captive-bred selection of Amphiprion ocellaris with heavily disconnected white bars. It shares the care needs of the
- Domino Ocellaris Clownfish Care GuideThe Domino Ocellaris is a mostly-black designer Amphiprion ocellaris with three small white spots; care follows the ocellaris clownfish.
- Naked Ocellaris Clownfish Care GuideThe Naked Ocellaris is a bar-less designer Amphiprion ocellaris with a solid orange body and minimal or no white bars; care follows the ocel
- DaVinci Clownfish Care GuideThe DaVinci is a curvy-barred designer form of the Snowflake Amphiprion ocellaris, graded B to Extreme; care follows the ocellaris clownfish
- Wyoming White Clownfish Care GuideThe Wyoming White is a designer Amphiprion ocellaris that is almost entirely white with thin black outlines; care follows the ocellaris clow
- Mocha Storm Clownfish Care GuideThe Mocha Storm is a dark designer Amphiprion ocellaris bred from a Black Storm crossed with an orange ocellaris, released to hobbyists in 2
- Mocha Clownfish Care GuideThe Mocha is a dark designer Amphiprion ocellaris, a hybrid of orange ocellaris and a black Darwin form, often used as a base for further cr
- Frostbite Clownfish Care GuideThe Frostbite is a multi-gene designer Amphiprion ocellaris derived from crossing DaVinci and Snowflake lines; care follows the ocellaris cl
- Black Ice Clownfish Care GuideThe Black Ice is a designer Amphiprion ocellaris combining the Snowflake pattern with a dark Mocha base; care follows the ocellaris clownfis
- Picasso Clownfish Care GuideThe Picasso is a designer strain of Amphiprion ocellaris with abstract, irregular white markings; care matches the wild ocellaris clownfish.
- Snowflake Clownfish Care GuideThe Snowflake is a captive-bred designer strain of Amphiprion ocellaris with broken, irregular white bars; husbandry follows the wild ocella
- Bluntnose Knifefish (Brachyhypopomus pinnicaudatus) Care GuideBrachyhypopomus pinnicaudatus is a small, peaceful South American weakly electric knifefish with a translucent body and a feather-like cauda
- Electric Eel (Electrophorus electricus) Care GuideElectrophorus electricus is a large South American knifefish capable of high-voltage discharges, suitable only for public-aquarium settings.
- Banded Knifefish (Gymnotus carapo) Care GuideGymnotus carapo is the most widespread South American weakly electric knifefish, a nocturnal, territorial predator with vertical banding.
- Spotted Saratoga (Scleropages leichardti) Care GuideScleropages leichardti is a southern Australian bonytongue from the Fitzroy River system, distinguished by a red or pink spot on each scale.
- Australian Arowana (Scleropages jardinii) Care GuideScleropages jardinii is a large bonytongue from northern Australia and New Guinea, growing near 90 cm and requiring a very large dedicated t
- Asian Arowana (Scleropages formosus) Care GuideScleropages formosus is a large, endangered Southeast Asian arowana on CITES Appendix I, a surface predator and paternal mouthbrooder.
- Black Arowana (Osteoglossum ferreirai) Care GuideOsteoglossum ferreirai is a large blackwater arowana from the Rio Negro basin, a surface-dwelling predator and paternal mouthbrooder.
- Green Spotted Puffer (Dichotomyctere nigroviridis) Care GuideDichotomyctere nigroviridis is a green, black-spotted Asian puffer of coastal brackish to saltwater habitats, highly aggressive and best kep
- Green Pufferfish (Dichotomyctere fluviatilis) Care GuideDichotomyctere fluviatilis is a South and Southeast Asian puffer of fresh to slightly brackish rivers and estuaries, a carnivore feeding on
- Ocellated Puffer (Leiodon cutcutia) Care GuideLeiodon cutcutia is a medium freshwater puffer from South Asia, aggressive towards tankmates and usually kept singly in a species tank.
- Crested Dwarf Puffer (Carinotetraodon lorteti) Care GuideCarinotetraodon lorteti is a small Southeast Asian freshwater puffer; males are ruby-red with red eyes and larger than females.
- Congo Puffer (Tetraodon miurus) Care GuideTetraodon miurus is a small freshwater Congo puffer that buries in sand to ambush prey, with colour ranging from black to bright red.
- Fahaka Puffer (Tetraodon lineatus) Care GuideTetraodon lineatus is a large pure-freshwater puffer from the Nile and other African basins, a solitary molluscivore needing a big species t
- Doria's Bumblebee Goby (Brachygobius doriae) Care GuideBrachygobius doriae is a nano bumblebee goby from Bornean coastal streams, kept in small hard, slightly brackish tanks in groups.
- Bumblebee Goby (Brachygobius xanthozona) Care GuideBrachygobius xanthozona is a nano bumblebee goby with black-and-yellow bands, suited to small hard, slightly brackish tanks kept in groups.
- Shuttles Hoppfish (Periophthalmus modestus) Care GuidePeriophthalmus modestus is a small East Asian mudskipper of temperate estuaries, kept in cooler brackish paludariums with a land area.
- Atlantic Mudskipper (Periophthalmus barbarus) Care GuidePeriophthalmus barbarus is an amphibious West African goby that breathes air and skips across mudflats, needing a brackish paludarium with l
- Orange Chromide (Pseudetroplus maculatus) Care GuidePseudetroplus maculatus is a small Indo-Sri Lankan cichlid of fresh and brackish streams, suited to hard-water community tanks in groups.
- Canara Pearlspot (Etroplus canarensis) Care GuideEtroplus canarensis is a small, endangered freshwater cichlid endemic to southern Karnataka in India, finely banded over a pale body.
- Green Chromide (Etroplus suratensis) Care GuideEtroplus suratensis is a large euryhaline cichlid from peninsular India and Sri Lanka, kept in brackish or hard freshwater tanks in groups.
- Spotted Scat (Scatophagus argus) Care GuideScatophagus argus is a diamond-shaped brackish fish with leopard-like spots that moves to marine conditions and has venomous spines.
- African Mono (Monodactylus sebae) Care GuideMonodactylus sebae is a tall-bodied West African mono with black vertical bars and high fins, becoming fully marine as an adult.
- Silver Mono (Monodactylus argenteus) Care GuideMonodactylus argenteus is a diamond-shaped silvery schooling fish that needs increasing salinity with age, ultimately requiring marine condi
- Wide-bar Datnoid (Datnioides quadrifasciatus) Care GuideDatnioides quadrifasciatus is a brackish tigerfish with broad dark bars on a golden background, hardy in slightly salty water and reaching a
- Four-bar Tigerfish (Datnioides polota) Care GuideDatnioides polota is an estuarine tigerfish of South Asia with broad dark bars, tolerating a wide salinity range and reaching about 30 cm.
- Indo Tiger Datnoid (Datnioides microlepis) Care GuideDatnioides microlepis is the largest tigerfish in its genus, a freshwater predator with broad dark bars on a golden body, needing a large ta
- Largescale Archerfish (Toxotes chatareus) Care GuideToxotes chatareus is an archerfish that spits water to knock down prey, tolerating fresh and brackish water and reaching up to about 40 cm.
- Half-banded Spiny Eel (Mastacembelus circumcinctus) Care GuideA modest Indochinese spiny eel with bold dark bars on the upper body, reaching about 29 cm, suited to smaller eel setups.
- Tire Track Eel (Mastacembelus armatus) Care GuideMastacembelus armatus is a large Asian spiny eel reaching about 90 cm, marked with a winding tire-track pattern and needing a big tank.
- Zebra Spiny Eel (Macrognathus zebrinus) Care GuideMacrognathus zebrinus is a Burmese spiny eel patterned with thin dark vertical bars, reaching up to about 46 cm.
- Lesser Spiny Eel (Macrognathus aculeatus) Care GuideMacrognathus aculeatus is an Asian spiny eel reaching about 38 cm, with a narrow snout used to probe sand for invertebrates.
- Glass Knifefish (Eigenmannia virescens) Care GuideEigenmannia virescens is a gregarious South American electric knifefish with a translucent green body that tolerates conspecifics.
- Mexican Ghost Knifefish (Apteronotus rostratus) Care GuideApteronotus rostratus is a Central American electric knifefish with an elongated rostrum, reaching about 27 cm and reported from Panama, Col