Black & White Fish

Size: 1.5”

Temp: 68-78F❄️🌴

Location: Top edge

Society: 8-10+ 

Eats: Carnivore
Home: Guinea, Liberia & Sierra Leone
Adaptable fish💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Suggested LID for tank🦘
Likes heavily planted tank🌱
Loves low flow💧

Size: 1-1.5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Top/mid  

Society: 8+ 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Oceania
Sensitive🥲
Suggested LID for tank🦘
Likes floating plants🌱
♂ white /♀ yellow-ish

Size: 1.5-2”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Top edge

Society: 6+ 

Eats: Carnivore
Home: Amazon Basin
Adaptable fish💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Likes floating plants🌱
LID: Can jump 6" in the air then glide to "safety!"🕊️

Size: 2-2.5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Top edge

Society: 6+ 

Eats: Carnivore
Home: Amazon Basin
Likes floating plants🌱
LID: Can jump 6" in the air then glide to "safety!"🕊️

Size: 2-2.5"

Temp: 76-81F🌴

Location: Top/mid

Society: solo, never multi-♂s

Eats: Carnivore

Home: Chao Phraya and Mekong Basins
Adaptable fish💪💪💪
Smart🧠🧠🧠
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Suggested LID for tank🦘
Likes floating plants & heavily planted tank🌱
Loves low flow💧

Size: 2.5-3"

Temp: 73-79F🌴

Location: Top/mid

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Upper Amazon River Basin, Peru
Suggested LID for tank🦘

Size: 2-3.5"

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Top edge

Society: 6+

Eats:  Carnivore/predator
Will eat small fish

Home: South Asia
Adaptable fish💪  
LID: Loves to jump💞

Size: 6-8”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Top/mid

Society:   6+, large tank

Eats: Carnivore/predator
Will eat small fish
Home: Myanmar
Sensitive🥲
Smart🧠🧠🧠
LID: Loves to jump💞
Likes terrestrial plants above aquarium, large floating plants🌱
Spits water at bugs so they fall off plants and into the water to eat.
Special care- Research!
SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️ 

Size: 1-1.5"

Temp: 72-79F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 8-10+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Borneo, Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula
Shy->heavily planted tank🌱

Prefers softwater- low pH
Size: 1.5”

Temp: 65-78F❄️🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 8+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Congo
fmr. Barbus hulstaerti 

Size: 1.5" 

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom/mid

Society: 8-10+

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Vietnam
LID: Loves to jump 💞
Loves low flow💧

Size: 1.5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Brazil
Adaptable fish💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Likes heavily planted tank🌱
Love tannins in water
Singapore bred variant

Size: 1-1.8"

Temp: 72-79F 🌴

Location:  Mid/Top leaves&branches

Society: 6+, loves big groups

Eats: Omnivore/Grazer

Home: Yarapa River, Peruvian Amazon (Peru)
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Sensitive🥲🥲🥲
Needs driftwood🪾
Grow algae/biofilm before introduction.
Must have older established tank.
Special care-Research!

Size: 1-2"

Temp: 72-79F 🌴

Location:  Mid/Top leaves&branches

Society: 6+, loves big groups

Eats: Omnivore/Grazer

Home: Peru, South America
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Sensitive🥲🥲🥲
Needs driftwood🪾
Grow algae/biofilm before introduction.
Must have older established tank.
Special care-Research!

Prefers softwater- low pH
Size: 2”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6-10+ 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Amazon Basin
Sensitive🥲
Likes heavily planted tank🌱
Brighter red is generally a sign of good health and low stress

Size: 2”
Cool 65-75°F❄️

Location: Mid/top

Society: 6+ 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: South Asia 
Adaptable fish💪💪💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Individually zips around fast and chaotic, plays in current, active swimmer💨💨💨
Fast eater🥪🚤💨
🔬Incredibly useful in scientific research. Able to regenerate like Wolverine: brain, eyes, heart, spinal cord, ears, fins, intestines, tail, organs, etc. 

Size: 2-2.5"

Temp: 72-79 F 🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 5+

Eats: Omnivore (algae, aufwuchs, detritus and vegetable matter)

Home: Lake Miragoâne, Haiti
Critically endangered in wild due to habitat lost, easy to bred in captivity
Available captive bred in USA.
May go extinct if they don't become popular in hobby community.

Size: 2.5"

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: India

Size: 3"

Temp: 72–82°F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6–10+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Amazon Basin & Araguaia River Basin

Size: 2.5-3”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+ 

Eats: Omnivore, spinach, cucumber, peas
Home: South America
Hovers with their head straight down!:D 

Prefers softwater- low pH
Size: 2-3”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/bottom

Society: 2-6+

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Indonesia
Sensitive🥲
Loves tannins in water
Loves low flow💧

Likes wood🪾, floating plants & extremely dense, heavily planted tanks🌱
Older estsblished tank better.
Slow movement🐌
Special care-Research!

Size: 6”

Temp: 73-81F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Amazon & Orinoco Basins, South America

Size: 4-5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/bottom

Society: Solo or 6+, huge tank 

Eats: Omnivore, snails
Home: South America
Attacks plants🚫🌱
Lid loves to jump💞
Color varies from white, yellow, orange and red according to location.
🚫🦐🐌

Size: 5-6”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/bottom

Society: 6+, large-huge tank

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Brazil
🚫🦐

Size: 4.5-6”

Temp 68-78°F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6-8+, large tank 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: India
Loves high flow🌊
Fast💨💨💨
🚫🦐

Size: 6”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/bottom

Society: 6-8+, Huge tank  

Eats: Omnivore
Home: South America
Attacks plants🚫🌱
Hovers with his head straight down!:D
🚫🦐

Size: 6"

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 5+

Eats: Herbivore/Algavore, spinach, peas, zucchini
Home: Amazon Basin
Will devour tank plants🚫🌱💀

Size: 5-8”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/bottom

Society: 6+, large tank 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: South America
Attacks plants🚫🌱
Loves high flow🌊
Lid loves to jump💞
Hovers with their head straight down!:D
🚫🦐

Prefers softwater- low pH
Size: 6-8”

Warm 82-86°F🔥

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+, large to huge tank

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Amazon Basin
Sensitive🥲🥲🥲
Likes tall plants🌱
Slow movement🐌
Special care-Research!
SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Can make a clicking sound🎶
🚫🦐

Size: 8-10”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/bottom

Society: Solo or 5+ with huge tank
(recommended: species only tank) 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: West Africa
Sensitive🥲
Smart🧠🧠🧠
Eelectrical sensitivity⚡
Must have FINE sand
Special care-Research!
SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
🚫🦐 

Size: .75-1.25” 

Temp: 68-78F❄️🌴

Location: Bottom/mid

Society: 6-10+ more the merrier

Eats: Omnivore, scavenger
Home: Colombia and Venezuela
Charming behavior
Likes heavily planted tank🌱
Needs sand to dig around in
Swims in midwater more than most cories

Prefers softwater- Low pH
Size: 1-1.5"
Temp: 74-82F🌴🔥

Location: Bottom/mid

Society:  ♀♂pair

Eats: Carnivore, frozen, live food
Home: Indonesia
BUY CAPTIVE BRED
Sensitive🥲🥲🥲
Shy->heavily planted tank🌱
Make sure they eat!

Size: 2"
Cool 72-75F❄️

Location: Bottom

Society: 3+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Guangxi, China

Loves flat stones & high flow 🌊
Youths have black and white coloring while adults are more molted

Size: 2"
Cool  68-75F❄️

Location: Bottom

Society: 4+

Eats: Omnivore/aufwuchs grazer

Home: Borneo (Sarawak, Malaysia)
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
Grow algae before introduction

Prefers softwater- Low pH
Size: 1.5-2"
Temp: 72-79F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Rio Curuá, Brazil
Needs sand to dig around in
Will "run" up to surface to get a big gulp of air sometimes

Prefers softwater- Low pH
Size: 2"
Temp: 72-79F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Mato Grosso, Brazil
Needs sand to dig around in
Will "run" up to surface to get a big gulp of air sometimes

Size: 1.5-2"
Temp: 70-77F❄️🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Peru
Needs sand to dig around in
Will "run" up to surface to get a big gulp of air sometimes

Size: 2-2.5"
Warm 78-82F🔥

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Upper Rio Negro, Brazil
Needs sand to dig around in
Will "run" up to surface to get a big gulp of air sometimes

Size: 2.5"
Temp: 72-79F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Upper Rio Negro, Brazil
Needs sand to dig around in
Will "run" up to surface to get a big gulp of air sometimes

Size: 2-2.5"
Temp: 75-82F🌴🔥

Location: Bottom/mid

Society: 6-10+

Eats: Omnivore, eats snails
Home: Thailand
Needs sand to dig around in
Can make a clicking sound🎶
🚫🐌

Size: 2.5-3”
Temp: 75-82F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Brazil, Bolivia
Adaptable fish💪
Loves heavily planted tank🌱
Charming behavior
Needs sand to dig around in
Will "run" up to surface to get a big gulp of air sometimes

Size: 2-3”
Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 3+ 

Eats: Carnivore
Home: Upper Amazon Basin
Likes driftwood & heavily planted tank🌱
Nocturnal🌜

Size: 2.5–3”
Temp: 75-82F🌴🔥

Location: Bottom/mid

Society: ♀♂ pair -monogamous💍

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Araguaia River Basin
Slow movement🐌
Needs sand to sift
Increase Temp 82-85 to encourage spawning.

Size: 3"
Temp: 76-79F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 5+

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Indonesia
Sensitive🥲
Likes heavily planted tank🌱

Needs sand to dig around in

Size: 2.5-3"
Temp: 74-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 5+

Eats: Omnivore, eats snails 

Home: Ganges–Brahmaputra
🚫🐌

Size: 3.5"
Temp: 72-82F🌴🔥

Location: Mid/bottom

Society: 4+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Brazil & Peru

Size: 3-4”

Cool 65-75F❄️

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Brazil
Loves heavily planted tank🌱
Charming behavior
Needs sand to dig around in
Will "run" up to surface to get a big gulp of air sometimes
Males grow a beard when ready to mate.

Size: 3–3.5"
Warm 78-86F🔥

Location: Bottom

Society: Solo 

Eats: Carnivore

Home: Brazil
Territorial on bottom level if crowded
Extinct in wild due to damming of Xingu River. Now hobbyist-bred world wide.

Size: 5"

Temp: 77–82°F 🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Brazil, Amazon River basin.

Size: 4-5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 3+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Lake Tanganyika
Will eat small fish
In the wild, it's 10" relative (S. multipunctatus) watches mouth brooding cichlid lay eggs in the sand, then lays it's eggs in same spot, cuckoo's eggs hatch faster and eat all the cichild fry in the mother's mouth <:o
They squeak!🎶

Size: 4-5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 3+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: South America
Will eat small fish

Size: 3-5" 

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 5+

Eats: Omnivore, eats snails
Home: India

Needs sand to dig around in
Territorial on bottom zone if less than 5 of his own species or cramped in tank
Can make a clicking sound🎶
🚫🐌

Size: 5-6"

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: Solo

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Orinoco/Casiquiare–Rio Negro
Territorial on bottom level if crowded

Size: 4-6" 

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 4-6, large tank

Eats: Carnivore, eats snails
Home: India
Adaptable fish💪
Needs sand to dig around in
Territorial & pushy on bottom zone
Fast!💨💨💨
Can make a clicking sound🎶
🚫🐌

Size: 5-6"

Temp: 68-79°F🌴

Location: Lower

Society: 3–5+ 

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Amazon Basin
He squeaks!🎶

Size: 6-6.5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 3+

Eats: Herbivore/aufwuchs grazer, wood

Home: Venezuela
Loves wood🪾

Size: 5-6.5"

Temp: 60-76F ❄️ (Requires a cool winter rest period 2-3months 64F)

Location: Bottom

Society: 1♀ ♂pair or (2 ♀ per 1 ♂)

Eats: Omnivore (Substrate sifter)

Home: Arroyo Yerbalito, Uruguay
Needs sand to sift
Territorial while breeding
Special care- Research!

Size: 6-8"

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: Solo

Eats: Omnivore, Will eat small fish

Home: Paraná River Basin
Sharp and Venomous spines!
Vibrates, growls and makes croaking sounds when taken out of water🎶

Size: 11"

Cool 68- 72°F❄️

Location: Bottom

Society: 1-2, large tank

Eats: Herbivore/aufwuchs grazer, occasional omnivore

Home: South America
Loves wood🪾

Size: 12”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom/mid

Society: Solo, large tank

Eats: Carnivore

Home: South America
Sensitive🥲
Smart🧠🧠🧠
Loves leaf litter, caves & tubes
SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️