Orange 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: 1-1.5”

Temp: 73-81F🌴

Location: Top/mid 

Society: 6-10+ 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Indonesia
Sensitive🥲
Suggested LID for tank🦘
Likes floating plants🌱

Size: 1-1.5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Top/mid 

Society: 6+ 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Australia
ONLY BUY CAPTIVE BRED
*alt. other Blue-eyes
Sensitive🥲🥲🥲
Likes floating plants🌱
Suggested LID for tank🦘

Size: 1.5-2”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Top/mid 

Society: 6-8+ 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: South America
Suggested LID for tank🦘
Likes floating and terrestrial plants above aquarium🌱
In the wild ♀ lays eggs on leaves above water and ♂ splash to keep them moist!💦

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: 75-80F🌴

Location: Top edge

Society: 2+♀ per 1 ♂

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Indonesia
Sensitive🥲
Suggested LID for tank🦘

Size: 2-3"

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Top/mid

Society: 5+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Sulawesi, Indonesia
ONLY BUY CAPTIVE BRED
*alt. Celebes Halfbeak
Sensitive🥲🥲🥲
Suggested LID for tank🦘

Size: 1”

Temp: 76-78F🌴

Location: Mid/top

Society: 10-15+ 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Araguaia Basin
Adaptable fish💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Love tannins in water
Foods rich in carotenoids turn them red.
Do not keep less than 10> they can get aggro towards each other.

Size: 1”

Cool 65-75°F❄️

Location: Mid/bottom

Society: 8-15+  

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Myanmar
Loves low flow💧
Shy->heavily planted tank🌱
fmr. Celestichthys erythromicron 

Size: 1”

Cool 72-78°F❄️🌴

Location: Mid/bottom

Society: 6-10+, 2 ♀ per 1 ♂  

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Myanmar
Likes heavily planted tank🌱
Discovered in 2006
Males flash fins at each other and spin in circle sizing each other up->highly social.
Males chase females around a lot.

Size: 1.5”

Temp: 74-79F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 8+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Brazil
Adaptable fish💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Loves low flow💧
Extinct in the wild due to industrialization, pollution, invasive species and dams. Thrives in pet trade worldwide.

Size: 1-1.5”

Temp: 73-82F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore 

Home: Southern New Guinea & Northern Australia

Size: 1.5-2”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/top

Society: solo, ♂♀ pair or 2 ♀ per 1 ♂ 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: India/Bangladesh
Adaptable fish💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Loves low flow💧
Likes wood, floating plants & heavily planted tanks🌱🪾
♂s make "bubble nests"

Size: 1.5-2”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 8+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Colombia

Size: 2”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/top

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: SE Asia
Adaptable fish💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Likes heavily planted tank🌱

Size: 2”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/bottom

Society:   5+ 

Eats: Carnivore, live or frozen food
Home: Congo
Likes heavily planted tank🌱
Slow movement🐌
Will eat small fish🫦
🚫🦐

Size: 2”
Temp: 64-78 F 🌴 

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+, large tank  

Eats: Omnivore
Home: South Asia, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan
Individually zips around fast and chaotic, plays in current, active swimmer💨💨💨
Fast eater🥪🚤💨

Size: 2-2.5”
Temp: 68–79F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Southern Africa

Size: 2.5"

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: India

Size: 2-2.5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/bottom

Society: 6+ 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Indonesia

Size: 2.5"

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Indonesia

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🌱
Slow movement🐌
Older estsblished tank better.

Size: 4-5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Australia
🚫🦐

Size: 3-4.5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/top

Society: 6+, large tank 

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Indonesia
Likes tall plants🌱
🚫🦐

Size: 4-5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: ♂♀ pair or 2 ♀ per 1 ♂

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Central America
Needs sand to sift
Loves caves, heavily planted tank🌱
fmr. Archocentrus multispinosus
🚫🦐

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: 6-8”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/bottom

Society: solo or 3+, large tank

Eats: Omnivore, snails, needs algae/veg
Home: Guianas and São Francisco Basin
Attacks plants🚫🌱
🚫🦐

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: 1" 

Temp: 72-78F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 4-6+(More = more color) 

Eats: Herbivore/aufwuchs grazer, biofilm, algae
Home: Moluccan island, Indonesia
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
Grow algae before introduction
♂'s defend a territory

Size: 1.5" 

Temp; 72-79F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 4+

Eats: Omnivore/grazer

Home: West Papua, Indonesia
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
Grow algae before introduction

Size: 2"
Temp: 72-79F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: ♀♂ pair or 2 ♀ per 1 ♂

Eats: Carnivore
Home: SE Asia & Oceania
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
♂'s defend a territory with gusto

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

Prefers softwater- Low pH
Size: 2-2.5”
Temp: 72-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Colombia, Rio Tomo
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: 2-2.5"
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: 72-79F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Venezuela, 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.
fmr. Corydoras venezuelanus & Corydoras aeneus
Bronze & Venezuelan considered same fish but different areas=different colors

Size: 2-3"

Temp: 59-75F ❄️

Location: Bottom

Society: 6+

Eats: Carnivore, eats snails

Home: Eastern North America, Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Loves flat stones & high flow🌊
🚫🐌

Size: 1.5-3”
Temp: 72-79F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: ♀♂ pair or 2+♀ per 1 ♂

Eats: Carnivore
Home: Papua New Guinea
Loves Caves
Loves heavily planted tank🌱
Mildly territorial while breeding

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: 2-3”
Warm 78-84F🔥

Location: Bottom/mid

Society: ♀♂ pair -monogamous💍

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Venezuela and Colombia
Loves plants and big flat stones
Needs sand to sift
Can make a clicking sound🎶

Size: 4” 

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: 5+

Eats: Carnivore
Home: Australia
Loves Caves

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: 4.5-5"

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: Solo

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Rio Curuá-Una, Pará, Brazil
Territorial on bottom level if crowded

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: 6-7"

Temp: 76-82°F🌴

Location: Bottom/mid

Society: 4-6+, large tank

Eats: Omnivore (Substrate sifter)

Home: San Juan & Atrato River Basins (Colombia)
Needs sand to sift
Bossy on bottom if crowded