Brown Fish

Size: 4-5”

Location: Top edge

Temp: 75-83F🌴

Society:   Solo, large tank

Eats: Carnivore/predator
Will eat small fish
Home: West Africa
LID: Loves to jump💞
Loves low flow💧
Likes large floating plants🌱
Special care- Research!

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🌱

Size: 1-1.8"

Temp: 72-80F 🌴

Location:  Mid/Top leaves&branches

Society: 6+, loves big groups

Eats: Omnivore/Grazer

Home: Río Nanay, Peruvian Amazon (Peru)
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️

Sensitive🥲🥲🥲
Needs driftwood🪾
Grow algae/biofilm before introduction.
Must have older established tank.
Special care-Research!

Size: 1-1.8"

Temp: 76-79F 🌴

Location:  Mid/Top leaves&branches

Society: 6+, loves big groups

Eats: Omnivore/Grazer

Home: Ucayali & Marañón Basins, Peruvian Amazon (Peru)
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️

Sensitive🥲🥲🥲
Needs driftwood🪾
Grow algae/biofilm before introduction.
Must have older established tank.
Special care-Research!

Gold Star Algae Eater
Size: 1”-2" 

Temp: 75-79F🌴

Location: Mid/Top leaves&branches

Society: 6+, loves big groups

Eats: Herbivore/grazer, biofilm, diatom & green algae, zucchini, cucumber, algae wafers, aufuhs on magnolia leaves and driftwood
Home: South America
Several species look similar and frequently mislabled in fish shops.
Likes heavily planted tank🌱
Grow algae before introduction.
Older established tank better.
Nervous/nocturnal if not in a 6+ group. 

Size: 1.5–2 inches

Temp: 72-80F 🌴

Location: Midwater 

Society: 6+ 

Eats: Omnivore 

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.

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!

Prefers softwater- low pH
Size: 3-4”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society:   Solo

Eats: Carnivore/live food only
Home: Amazon Basin
Sensitive🥲
Special care-Research!
Slow movement🐌
Will eat fish it's own body length🫦
SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
🚫🦐
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Size: 4-5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: Solo, ♂♀ pair or 2 ♀ per 1 ♂

Eats: Omnivore

Home: SE Asia
Slow movement🐌
🚫🦐

Prefers softwater- low pH
Size: 1-1.25"

Temp: 72-81F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Carnivore, only live food

Home: Northern Myanmar to Cambodia
Sensitive🥲
Loves low flow💧
Loves heavily planted tank🌱
Established older tank
Make sure they eat!
Special care- Research!

Size: 1-1.5”

Cool 64-75F❄️

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Carnivore 

Home: India, Bangladesh
Nocturnal🌜

Size: 1.5-2”
Temp: 72-78F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 2+♀ per 1 ♂ or 6+groups

Eats: Omnivore/aufwuchs grazer, biofilm, diatoms, green algae, cucumbers, zucchini
Home: Java, Bali & Lombok, Indonesia
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
Grow algae before introduction
♂'s defend a territory

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: South Kalimantan, Indonesia
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
Grow algae before introduction

Size: 2"
Cool  68-75F❄️

Location: Bottom

Society: 4+

Eats: Omnivore/aufwuchs grazer

Home: South Kalimantan, Indonesia
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
Grow algae before introduction

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

Size: 2.5"
Temp: 68-79F❄️🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 4+

Eats: Omnivore/aufwuchs grazer

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

Size: 2.5”
Temp: 72-79F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: South America
Adaptable fish💪💪💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰🔰🔰

Charming behavior
Needs sand to dig around in
Will "run" up to surface to get a big gulp of air sometimes.
Bronze & Venezuelan considered same fish but different areas=different colors

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"
Cool 68-75F❄️

Location: Bottom

Society: 4+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Vietnam & Laos
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
Grow algae before introduction

Size: 2-3”
Temp: 68-78F❄️🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 5+

Eats: Omnivore/aufwuchs grazer

Home: Mekong Basin, Thailand
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
Grow algae before introduction

Size: 3.5"
Temp: 72-82F🌴🔥

Location: Mid/bottom

Society: 4+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Brazil & Peru

Size: 2.5-3.5" 

Temp 68-77F❄️🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: Solo or 3+ 

Eats: Omnivore/aufwuchs grazer, biofilm, diatom, hair & green algae, zucchini, cucumber, spinach
Home: Myanmar
Adaptable fish💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Charming behavior
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
Grow algae before introduction
May land on your hand. Related to "doctor fish."

Size: 4” 

Temp 76-82F🌴🔥

Location: Bottom

Society: solo or ♀♂ pair, large tank

Eats: Carnivore
Home: Peru
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Sensitive🥲
Sharp and Venomous spines!
Nocturnal🌜
Needs sand to hide in
Special care- Research!
They make a humming sound!🎶

Size: 3-4"

Cool 64-75F❄️

Location: Bottom

Society: 4+

Eats: Carnivore, insects, crustaceans, worms, small fish

Home: Qiantang and Zhujiang, China
old name Microphysogobio tafangensis
Territorial while breeding

Size: 4” 

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 5+, large tank

Eats: Omnivore, eats snails
Home: SE Asia
Adaptable fish💪
Pugnacious, pushy on bottom level
Can make a clicking sound🎶
🚫🐌

Size: 4” 

Temp: 68-77F❄️🌴

Location: Bottom/flat surfaces

Society: 3-5+

Eats: Omnivore, biofilm, diatom
Home: Mekong Basin
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊

Size: 4"

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 4+

Eats: Carnivore

Home: India, Bangladesh & Myanmar
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊

Size: 3.5–4"

Cool 68-75F❄️

Location: Bottom

Society: Solo

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Columbia
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
Territorial on bottom level if crowded

Size: 4.3" 

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: Solo

Eats: Omnivore/detritivore

Home: Amazon River basin
Nocturnal 🌙
Hides in sand most of time🫣
May eat very small fish

Size: 3-4.5" 

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 4-6

Eats: Omnivore/aufwuchs grazer, biofilm, green, brown film
Home: Ataran River Drainage
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
Grow algae before introduction

Size: 4-5"
Temp: 76-82F 🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: India, Nepal and Bangladesh
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Needs a pristine enviroment- can not handle lots of bacteria

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: Solo

Eats: Omnivore, algae grazer

Home: Río Iténez, Bolivia

Gold Star Algae Eater
Size: 4–6”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: Solo

Eats: Herbivore/omnivore, must have wood🪾, biofilm, diatom & green algae, zucchini, cucumber

Home: South America
Adaptable fish💪💪💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Large bio load💩

Territorial if crowded -needs a cave
Many different color morph$💸

Size: 5-6”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: solo, 3+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: South America

Size: 5-6”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 1+

Eats: Carnivore, will eat small creatures

Home: SE Asia
Loves caves, heavily planted tank🌱
Ambush predator needs large tank mates

Size: 5-6” 

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: Solo, large tank

Eats: Carnivore, live foods, fish, crustaceans & aquatic insects
Home: Australia
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Sensitive🥲
Make sure they eat!- Target feeding!
Needs sand to hide in
Special care- Research!

Size: 4-6”
Temp: 72-82 F 🌴 

Location: Bottom/Mid

Society: Pair

Eats: Carnivore, LIVE FOOD only-copepods, daphnia, baby brine shrimp, mosquito larvae

Home: Southeast Asia
Sensitive🥲
Loves low flow💧
Loves heavily planted tank🌱
Established older tank
Special care- Research!
SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️

Size: 6-6.5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 3+

Eats: Herbivore/aufwuchs grazer, wood

Home: Venezuela
Loves wood🪾

Size: 4-7"

Temp: 50-75 F ❄️

Location: Bottom/Mid

Society: 6+

Eats: Herbivore (filamentous algae, diatoms and aufwuchs)

Home: Eastern and central United States
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Loves small rollable stones of variety of sizes to "roll" & high flow🌊
Grow algae before introduction

Size: 8"

Temp: 68-82F 🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 5+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: South America, including the Amazon, Orinoco and Paraná–Paraguay river basins

Size: 6-8"

Temp: 73-80F 🌴

Location: Bottom 

Society: Solo or 3+, large tank

Eats: Carnivore

Home: Irrawaddy, Sittaung, & Salween Drainages (Myanmar)
Will try to get out-HEAVY LID
Will eat small fish
Sensitive🥲
Loves caves/tubes

Nocturnal🌜
Needs DEEP sand to dig and hide in

Size: 7-10” 

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society:  6+, large tank 

Eats: Carnivore
Home: Amazon Basin
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Sensitive🥲
Smart🧠🧠🧠
Loves leaf litter, caves & tubes
Nocturnal🌜

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 ⚠️

Size: 8-12"   

Temp: 73-82F 🌴   

Location: Bottom 

Society: 1 or 5+, large tank 

Eats: Carnivore

Home: Mekong, Chao Phraya, & Mae Klong Basins (Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam)
Will try to get out-HEAVY LID
Will eat small fish
Sensitive🥲
Loves caves/tubes

Nocturnal🌜
Needs DEEP sand to dig and hide in

Size: 8.5-12" 

Temp: 72-82F🌴

Location: Bottom (Sand Dwellers)

Society: 3+

Eats: Carnivore

Home: Upper Amazon Basin, Peru & Bolivia (Río Ucayali, Río Purus)
Needs sand to dig around in

Size: 10-12” 

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: Solo, large tank

Eats: Carnivore, chopped raw tilapia 

Home: West & Central Africa
different species shift color to match substrate
Will try to get out-HEAVY LID
Will eat small fish
Smart🧠🧠🧠
Loves caves/tubes
Nocturnal🌜
Needs sand to dig around in
SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️

Size: 15”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 2+, large tank

Eats: Carnivore
Home: West & Central Africa
Will try to get out-HEAVY LID
Will eat small fish
Smart🧠🧠🧠
Loves caves/tubes
Nocturnal🌜
Needs sand to dig around in
long body/long life! 20+ years
SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️

Size: 14-20"

Temp: 73-81F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: Solo, huge tank

Eats: Carnivore

Home: Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Will try to get out-HEAVY LID
Will eat small fish
Sensitive🥲
Loves caves/tubes

Nocturnal🌜
Needs DEEP sand to dig and hide in