Species Profiles
2458 articles- Deep-Water Xenotilapia (Xenotilapia bathyphila) Care GuideXenotilapia bathyphila is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding.
- Fasciatus (Neolamprologus fasciatus) Care GuideNeolamprologus fasciatus is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding.
- Kendall's Lepidio (Lepidiolamprologus kendalli) Care GuideLepidiolamprologus kendalli is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding.
- Meeli's Lepidio (Lepidiolamprologus meeli) Care GuideLepidiolamprologus meeli is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding.
- Prochilus (Neolamprologus prochilus) Care GuideNeolamprologus prochilus is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding.
- Leloup's Cichlid (Neolamprologus leloupi) Care GuideNeolamprologus leloupi is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding.
- Helianthus (Neolamprologus helianthus) Care GuideNeolamprologus helianthus is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding.
- Scale Eater (Perissodus microlepis) Care GuidePerissodus microlepis is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding.
- Haplotaxodon (Haplotaxodon microlepis) Care GuideHaplotaxodon microlepis is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding.
- Multi Fasciatus (Neolamprologus multifasciatus "Fasciatus") Care GuideNeolamprologus multifasciatus is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding
- Caudopunctatus (Neolamprologus caudopunctatus) Care GuideNeolamprologus caudopunctatus is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding
- Tanganyikan Hap (Ctenochromis horei) Care GuideCtenochromis horei is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding.
- Diagramma Simochromis (Simochromis diagramma) Care GuideSimochromis diagramma is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding.
- Loock's Cichlid (Interochromis loocki) Care GuideInterochromis loocki is a cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. This guide covers its tank requirements, diet, behaviour and breeding.
- Captain America Zoa Care GuideCaptain America Zoa is a hardy, photosynthetic Zoanthus colony for reef aquaria. Easy to keep and fast-spreading, but colonies may carry pal
- Blueberry Pancakes Zoa Care GuideBlueberry Pancakes Zoa is a hardy, photosynthetic Zoanthus colony for reef aquaria. Easy to keep and fast-spreading, but colonies may carry
- Whammin Watermelon Zoa Care GuideWhammin Watermelon Zoa is a hardy, photosynthetic Zoanthus colony for reef aquaria. Easy to keep and fast-spreading, but colonies may carry
- Rastas Zoa Care GuideRastas Zoa is a hardy, photosynthetic Zoanthus colony for reef aquaria. Easy to keep and fast-spreading, but colonies may carry palytoxin an
- Fruit Loops Zoa Care GuideFruit Loops Zoa is a hardy, photosynthetic Zoanthus colony for reef aquaria. Easy to keep and fast-spreading, but colonies may carry palytox
- Eagle Eyes Zoa Care GuideEagle Eyes Zoa is a hardy, photosynthetic Zoanthus colony for reef aquaria. Easy to keep and fast-spreading, but colonies may carry palytoxi
- Pulchellus Zoa Care GuidePulchellus Zoa is a hardy, photosynthetic Zoanthus colony for reef aquaria. Easy to keep and fast-spreading, but colonies may carry palytoxi
- Greater Blue-Ringed Octopus ProfileHapalochlaena lunulata is a tiny Indo-Pacific octopus whose tetrodotoxin venom can kill a human. With no antivenom, it is a professional/pub
- California Two-Spot Octopus Care GuideOctopus bimaculoides is a cool-water octopus from California, named for two iridescent false eye-spots. It is one of the few cephalopods kep
- Microsorum pteropus 'Latifolia' Care GuideMicrosorum pteropus 'Latifolia' is a broad-leaf java fern cultivar with shorter, wider blades, grown as an epiphyte on hardscape.
- Singapore Moss Care GuideSingapore Moss (Vesicularia dubyana) is a bushy, fast-growing tropical moss that tolerates warmer water than most aquarium mosses.
- Erect Moss Care GuideErect Moss (Vesicularia reticulata) grows in upright shoots when submersed, making it useful for moss walls and miniature forest looks.
- Java Moss 'Mini' Care GuideJava Moss 'Mini' is a compact selection of Taxiphyllum barbieri with finer, denser fronds, ideal for small mossy hardscape detail.
- Mini Christmas Moss Care GuideMini Christmas Moss is a smaller form of Vesicularia montagnei with shorter side-branches, producing tighter moss walls and trees.
- Riccia fluitans 'Sunset' Care GuideRiccia fluitans 'Sunset' is a yellowish-green liverwort variant tied to stones for the classic pearling-lawn aquascaping look.
- Hydrocotyle tripartita 'Mini' Care GuideHydrocotyle tripartita 'Mini' is a compact East Asian creeping plant with small round-lobed leaves used as a foreground or midground accent.
- Eleocharis montevidensis Care GuideEleocharis montevidensis, or giant hairgrass, is a tall spikerush with upright blades used for background hairgrass meadows.
- Lilaeopsis novae-zelandiae 'Mini' Care GuideLilaeopsis novae-zelandiae 'Mini' is a smaller micro-sword selection forming a dense lawn-like carpet around 3-5 cm tall.
- Helanthium tenellum 'Red' Care GuideHelanthium tenellum 'Red' is a red-tinged dwarf chain sword that develops salmon-pink colour under strong light and forms a low foreground m
- Sagittaria subulata 'Brazil' Care GuideSagittaria subulata 'Brazil' is a small dwarf-sag locality form with narrow leaves that works as a transition foreground-to-midground plant.
- Marsilea hirsuta 'Tiny' Care GuideMarsilea hirsuta 'Tiny' is a dwarf aquatic clover-fern from Australia forming a low nano carpet, well suited to low-tech tanks.
- Hemianthus glomeratus Care GuideHemianthus glomeratus, known as pearl weed, is a versatile bright-green North American stem plant used as carpet, midground bush or backgrou
- Heteranthera zosterifolia 'Mini' Care GuideHeteranthera zosterifolia 'Mini' is a compact form of South American star grass that forms bright green, feathery midground groups.
- Cardamine lyrata 'Japan' Care GuideCardamine lyrata 'Japan' is a compact form of an East Asian marsh plant suited to cool-water and tropical aquascapes that are not kept too w
- Mbamba Cichlid (Labidochromis sp. "Mbamba") Care GuideLabidochromis sp. "Mbamba" is a yellow-bodied Lake Malawi mbuna from Mbamba Bay, a relatively peaceful maternal mouthbrooder for hard-water
- Hongi Cichlid (Labidochromis sp. "Hongi") Care GuideLabidochromis sp. "Hongi" is a Lake Malawi mbuna with blue males and a red-orange dorsal and head, a semi-aggressive maternal mouthbrooder f
- Finley's Benitochromis (Benitochromis finleyi) Care GuideBenitochromis finleyi is a small Cameroonian biparental mouthbrooder of soft acidic water, endangered in the wild and restricted to the Mung
- Linke's Cichlid (Chromidotilapia linkei) Care GuideChromidotilapia linkei is a Cameroonian biparental mouthbrooder of soft water, endangered in the wild and restricted to the Mungo and Wouri
- Guenther's Mouthbrooder (Chromidotilapia guentheri) Care GuideChromidotilapia guentheri is a West African biparental mouthbrooder reaching about 18 cm, in which both parents carry the fry, suited to sof
- Alluaud's Haplochromine (Astatoreochromis alluaudi) Care GuideAstatoreochromis alluaudi is an East African cichlid with crushing pharyngeal jaws specialised on snails, a mouthbrooder reaching about 19 c
- Blackchin Tilapia (Sarotherodon melanotheron) Care GuideSarotherodon melanotheron is a brackish-tolerant West African tilapia reaching about 28 cm, a paternal mouthbrooder of mangroves, lagoons an
- Spotted Tilapia (Tilapia mariae) Care GuideTilapia mariae is a robust West African tilapia reaching about 30 cm, a substrate spawner that is invasive outside its range and needs a ver
- Hornet Tilapia (Tilapia buttikoferi) Care GuideTilapia buttikoferi is a large striped West African cichlid reaching about 30 cm, an aggressive substrate spawner needing a very large tank
- Five-Banded Cichlid (Thysochromis ansorgii) Care GuideThysochromis ansorgii is a peaceful West African cichlid with five vertical bars and iridescent blue spotting, a pair-bonding substrate broo
- Congo Dwarf (Nanochromis parilus) Care GuideNanochromis parilus is a slim Congo dwarf cichlid with iridescent blue males and breeding females showing a bright magenta belly, a soft-wat
- Transvestitus Dwarf (Nanochromis transvestitus) Care GuideNanochromis transvestitus is a tiny Congo dwarf cichlid with reverse sexual dichromatism, endemic to Lake Mai-Ndombe and requiring very soft