Rainbow Colors Fish

Size: 2-2.5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Top 

Society:  2+ ♀ per 1 ♂ 

Eats: Carnivore
Home: West Africa
Adaptable fish💪
Suggested LID for tank🦘
Likes heavily planted tank🌱
Loves low flow💧

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: 2-3.25"

Cool 55-73F❄️❄️❄️
Highly cold tolerant

Location: Top/mid

Society: solo or ♀♂pair, never multi-♂s

Eats: Carnivore

Home: Yangtze–Pearl River region, China; Korea and Japan
Adaptable fish💪
Smart🧠🧠🧠
Suggested LID for tank🦘
Likes floating plants & heavily planted tank🌱
Loves low flow💧
Some will hunt baby/adult shrimps, others completely ignore them.

Size: 5-5.5”

Temp: 68-78F❄️🌴

Location: Top/mid

Society: 2 ♀ per 1 ♂

Eats: Carnivore
Will eat small fish

Home: West Africa
♂'s Agressive
LID: Loves to jump💞
Short lifespan in 1<year wild, up to 5 years in captivity at cool 70-74F and expert care.

Size: 1-1.5”
Temp: 61-79°F❄️🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 8+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Northern Myanmar
Adaptable fish💪
Beginner friendly fish🔰
Likes heavily planted tank🌱
LID may jump
fmr. Celestichthys choprae
Fast💨💨💨

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: 1.5"

Temp: 67-78°F ❄️🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Jalisco, Mexico
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: 1-1.5”

Temp: 73-82F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore 

Home: Southern New Guinea & Northern Australia

Size: 2" 

Temp 65-78F❄️🌴

Location: Midwater

Society:  2 ♀ per ♂ 

Eats: Omnivore/Algavore, biofilm, BBA, green hair, thread, staghorn, green, brown algae, zucchini, cucumber, spinach, peas
Home: Florida,😎 USA
Pugnacious: fin-nipper/semi-aggressive/fast eater
Eats soft leaves & attacks plants when there is not enough alage to eat🚫🦐🌱

Size: 1.5-2.5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/bottom

Society: 2 ♀ per ♂

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Zanzibar Island
Only live 1 year in wild, up to 2 in tank. Eggs dry out completely until rainy season. This fish's eggs were used by the Wham-O corporation in the 1960s as a kids toy- just add water and instant fish!
🚫🦐

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: 2.5-3.5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Mid/top

Society: 6+, large tank

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Congo
🚫🦐
Doofy characters, loves house bugs spiders/flies ec.🕷️

Size: 4-5”

Temp: 75-80F🌴

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Australia
🚫🦐

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: Midwater

Society: Solo, ♂♀ pair or 2 ♀ per 1 ♂

Eats: Omnivore

Home: SE Asia
Slow movement🐌
🚫🦐

Size: 5-6”

Cool 68-75°F❄️

Location: Midwater

Society: 6+, large tank

Eats: Omnivore

Home: India
Fast💨💨💨
🚫🦐

Size: 4.5-6”

Temp 68-79°F🌴

Location: mid water

Society: 6-8+, large tank 

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

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: 2.5”
Temp: 72-79F🌴

Location: Bottom

Society: solo, ♀♂ pair or 2+♀ per 1 ♂

Eats: Omnivore
Home: Paraguay 
Loves caves, sand & leaf litter

Loves heavily planted tank🌱
Territorial while breeding
Can make a clicking sound🎶

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: 2.5–3”
Temp: 75-82F🌴🔥

Location: Bottom/mid

Society: ♀♂ pair -monogamous💍

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Bolivia & Brazil
Loves caves, heavily planted tank🌱
Needs sand to sift
Considered much easier to care for than German Rams.

Size: 1.5–3"
Warm 77-82F🔥

Location: Bottom

Society: 4+

Eats: Omnivore

Home: Brazil, Colombia & Venezuela

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: 3-4”

Temp: 75-82F🌴

Location: Bottom/mid

Society: ♀♂ pair, monogamous💍

Eats: Omnivore

Home: West Africa
Adaptable fish💪
Loves caves, heavily planted tank🌱
Territorial while breeding
Can make a clicking sound🎶

Size: 4.5-6"

Temp: 58-77F🌴❄️ (Requires a cool winter rest period 2-3months 64F)

Location: Bottom/mid, large tank

Society: Solo, 4-6+ (2 ♀ per 1♂ )

Eats: Omnivore (Substrate sifter)

Home: Uruguay River Basin & Río Negro Basin (South America)
Special care- Research!

Size: 6-6.5”

Warm 77-82F🔥
Location: Bottom/Mid

Society: 2-6+

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

Home: India & Bangladesh
DIFFICULT: SPECIALIST FISH ⚠️
Sensitive🥲🥲
Loves low flow💧
Established older tank
Special care- Research!

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: 6-7"

Temp: 78–82F🌴🔥

Location: Bottom/mid

Society: 5–6+(2 ♀ per 1 ♂), large tank

Eats: Omnivore (Substrate sifter)

Home: Tapajós River Basin (Brazil)
Needs sand to sift
Bossy on bottom if crowded

Size: 7-9"

Temp: 75-82F🌴

Location: Bottom/mid

Society: 5-8+, large tank

Eats: Omnivore (Substrate sifter)

Home: Tocantins & Araguaia River Basins (Brazil)
Needs sand to sift
Bossy on bottom if crowded