While freshwater fishes have a somewhat undeserved reputation for being less colorful than their saltwater counterparts, few … Read more

The Brilliant Rasbora is a study in understated beauty. It’s shape is perfectly streamlined for quickly cutting through its w … Read more

For those aquarists out there who would love to have a Zebra Pleco (Hypancistrus zebra) but can’t stomach that fishes hefty p … Read more

One of New Guinea’s most beautiful freshwater fishes is a shiny blue species that is small in stature but big in looks. The N … Read more

The rift lakes of Africa are famed for the remarkable abundance of cichlids that have flourished in them. Lake Tanganyika, th … Read more

Most species of freshwater fish found in the aquarium hobby have been around for many decades, but not the Rose Line Shark, w … Read more

The name ‘Rainbow Shark’ is a bit of a stretch for Epalzeorhynchus frenatum, as this fish is neither a shark nor is it all th … Read more

Livebearing fishes, which are species that give birth directly to small juveniles rather than laying eggs, are some of the mo … Read more

Among the hugely diverse group of Southeast Asian fishes known as danios, few can compete with the sheer visual splendor of t … Read more