Flag Acara (Laetacara curviceps)
Laetacara curviceps is a gentle 6–8 cm Amazon pair cichlid for a planted, soft-water tank: it spawns on leaves and stones like a ram, not in apis…
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Checkerboard Cichlid (Dicrossus filamentosus)
Dicrossus filamentosus is a blackwater specialist from the Rio Negro and Orinoco: a 6–8 cm checkerboard dwarf that demands extremely soft, acidic…
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Altifrons Eartheater (Geophagus altifrons)
Geophagus altifrons is the high-foreheaded Amazon eartheater: 20–25 cm, warm soft water, a deep sand bed, and a gentler reputation than the pearl…
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Pearl Cichlid (Geophagus brasiliensis)
Geophagus brasiliensis is a 20–30 cm coastal Brazilian cichlid: pearl-spangled, sand-sifting, and far more adaptable and territorial than Amazon…
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Demon Eartheater (Satanoperca jurupari)
Satanoperca jurupari is a 20–25 cm Amazon sand-sifter that takes mouthfuls of substrate and is a delayed mouthbrooder — give it a deep sand bed…
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Uaru Cichlid (Uaru amphiacanthoides)
Uaru amphiacanthoides is a 25–30 cm Amazon cichlid that lives like a plant-eating discus cousin: warm, clean, soft water, a huge tank, and vegeta…
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African Butterfly Cichlid (Anomalochromis thomasi)
Anomalochromis thomasi is a West African forest-stream dwarf that pair-spawns on leaves and wood in soft, vegetated water — not an Apistogramma,…
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Steindachner's Apisto (Apistogramma steindachneri)
Apistogramma steindachneri is the bigger, more adaptable Guianan apisto: 7–9 cm, still a sand-and-cave dwarf in soft to moderately soft water —…
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Viejita Apisto (Apistogramma viejita)
Apistogramma viejita is a Colombian dwarf cichlid sold in red and yellow lines: still a leaf-litter, cave, soft-water harem fish — the colours ar…
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Nijssen's Apisto (Apistogramma nijsseni)
Apistogramma nijsseni — the panda apisto — is a Peruvian blackwater dwarf whose males wear a pale mask and a dark rear; keep it in stained, ver…
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Panduro Apisto (Apistogramma panduro)
Apistogramma panduro is a Peruvian leaf-litter dwarf cichlid: soft acidic water, botanicals, and caves — a 5–6 cm harem fish that has nothing t…
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Blue Neon Cyprichromis (Paracyprichromis nigripinnis)
Paracyprichromis nigripinnis is a midwater Tanganyika wall-schooler: males hold a blue neon in a tall, long alkaline tank, mouthbrood, and ignore s…
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Variabilichromis Moorii (Variabilichromis moorii)
Variabilichromis moorii is the Tanganyika rock cichlid that starts yellow and finishes near-black: a 9–11 cm algal grazer and cave holder in hard…
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Cylindricus Cichlid (Neolamprologus cylindricus)
Neolamprologus cylindricus is a tube-bodied Tanganyika rock cichlid that holds caves in the littoral: 8–10 cm of territorial pair in alkaline wat…
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Compressed Altolamprologus (Altolamprologus compressiceps)
Altolamprologus compressiceps is a laterally flattened Tanganyika hunter that slides into vertical rock seams to eat snails and fry — keep it as…
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Marlier's Julie (Julidochromis marlieri)
Julidochromis marlieri is the heavier, checkerboard Julie: 8–10 cm of rock-slit cichlid that wants a bigger boulder pile than J. ornatus, the sam…
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Ornate Julie (Julidochromis ornatus)
Julidochromis ornatus is a slender Tanganyika rock cichlid that lives in slits, not shells: pair it on a pile of stacked rock in hard alkaline wate…
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Ocellated Shell Dweller (Lamprologus ocellatus)
Lamprologus ocellatus is a 4–6 cm Tanganyika shell-dweller: empty snail shells on deep sand, hard alkaline water, and a colony — never a plante…
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Greater Scissortail Rasbora (Rasbora caudimaculata)
Rasbora caudimaculata is a 10–15 cm river jumper with a spotted, forked tail: give it a long, covered tank and a school, not a peat cube, not a p…
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Rosefin Rasbora (Rasbora dusonensis)
Rasbora dusonensis is a 10–12 cm river rasbora whose pink-red fins only show in a long, oxygenated school — treat it as a swimming cyprinid, no…
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Volcano Rasbora (Sundadanio axelrodi)
Sundadanio axelrodi is not a true Rasbora: it is a 2 cm Borneo peat fish whose males flash metallic blue-green over tea-stained water — keep it l…
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Brilliant Rasbora (Rasbora einthovenii)
Rasbora einthovenii is an 8–12 cm striped river rasbora: it wants length, a real school, and oxygenated stream water — not a peat-nano cube and…
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Glowlight Rasbora (Trigonostigma hengeli)
Trigonostigma hengeli is the smaller, shyer harlequin cousin: an orange-gold wedge on a 3–4 cm body that wants a planted, soft forest stream —…
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Strawberry Rasbora (Boraras naevus)
Boraras naevus from southern Thailand peat is a 2 cm rasbora defined by a round flank patch and a need for stained, still, acidic water — keep a…
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