Green Fish

Prefers softwater- low pH
Size: 0.9”

Temp: 75-79F🌴

Location: Mid/top

Society: 10-15+ 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: SE Asia
Likes heavily planted tank🌱
Discovered in 1999
Individually zips around fast and chaotic, plays in current💨💨💨

Size: 2.5-3”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+ 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: SE Asia
Adaptable fish💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰
🚫🦐

Size: 1.5"

Cool 61-76°F❄️

Location: Top

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Japan, Korea, China & Vietnam
Adaptable fish💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Likes floating plants🌱
First domesticated in Japan 1600s
First vertebrates to reproduce in outer space!🧑‍🚀🌠

Size: 1.25-1.5"

Temp: 67-75 F ❄️

Location: Mid/ Plant surfaces

Society: 6+

Eats: Herbivore (aufwuchs, microscopic algae, diatoms and biofilm)

Home: Rio Chapecó, upper Uruguay River basin, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Sensitive🥲🥲🥲
Needs driftwood🪾
Grow algae/biofilm before introduction.
Must have older established tank.
Special care-Research!

Size: 6”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/top

Society: 5+, large tank 

Eats: Herbivore/Algavore, spinach, peas, zucchini
Home: Rio Nanay, Peru
Will devour tank plants🚫🌱💀

Size: 6-7”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/top

Society: 6+, large tank 

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

Size: 1.5”
Temp: 72-78F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Carnivore

Home: South America
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Sensitive🥲
Likes heavily planted tank🌱
May shift colors if not kept in green habitat
Make sure they eat!

Size: 2.25-2.5"
Temp: 74-77F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Pucallpa, Peru
Loves heavily planted tank🌱
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Charming behavior
Needs sand to dig around in
Will "run" up to surface to get a big gulp of air sometimes

Size: 1.5-2.5"

Temp: 59-72F ❄️

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Carnivore, eats snails

Home: Tennessee, USA
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
🚫🐌

Size: 3.5-4"
Temp: 72-82F🌴🔥

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: South America
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: 4-4.5” 

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+ 

Eats: Omnivore, scavenger
Home: South America
Charming behavior
Adults are pink/silver/green,
youths have mohawks and spots
Needs sand to dig around in
Can make a clicking sound🎶

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: 2.5-4.5"

Temp: 55-75F ❄️

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Carnivore, eats snails

Home: Eastern North America, Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins, from southern Canada to Georgia and Oklahoma.
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Needs 50 snails a week per fish for optimal health🐌🥪
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
🚫🐌

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 ⚠️