List of freshwater aquarium fish species


A vast number of species of fish have been successfully kept in
the home aquarium. This list gives only some of the most
commonly-kept species.


Freshwater Aquarium Fish Includes:


Live-bearing
Green Swordtail
Guppy
Sailfin Molly
Southern Platy
Variable Platy



Egg-laying

African Lungfish
Agassiz's Dwarf Cichlid
Angelfish
Archerfish
Armored Catfish
Armored Suckermouth Catfish
Asian Pufferfish


Banded Cichlid
Banded Leporinus
Banjo Catfish
Barbs
Bengal Danio
Bettas
Black Banded Sunfish
Black Ghost Knifefish
Black Ruby Barb
Black Tetra
Black Line Tetra
Bleeding Heart Tetra
Blind Cave Fish
Blue Acara
Blue Gourami
Blue Panchax
Bristlenose Catfish
BumbleBee Goby
Burmese Border Loach
Butterfly Fish

Cardinal tetra
Catfish
Cave tetra
Celebes Rainbowfish
Characins
Checker Barb
Cherry Barb
Chinese Barb
Chocolate Cichlid
Cichlids
Clipper Barb
Clown Loach
Coolie Loach
Common Carp
Common Dace
Common Hatchetfish
Common Krib
Common Plecos
Cory catfish
Cyprinids

Daces
Danios
Discus
Dojo Loach
Dwarf Gourami
Dwarf Loach
Dwarf Suckermouth Catfish

Eartheater Cichlid
Electric Catfish
Electric Yellow
Elongated Mbuna
Emperor Tetra
Fancy Guppies
Featherback
Fire-Mouth Cichlid
Freshwater Halfbeak

Glass Catfish
Glass Tetra
Gold Barb
Golden Mbuna
Goldfish   (See also: All Varieties of Goldfish below)
Giant Danio
Giant Gourami
Gourami
Green neon tetra
Green Terror
Guenther's Notho

Harlequin Fish
Horseface Loach
Indian Glassfish
Iridescent Shark
Jack Dempsey
Japanese Fighting Fish
Jewel Cichlid
Julie

Kissing Gourami
Koi
Kuhli Loach

Leaf Fish
Lemon Tetra
Liposarcus pardalis
Loaches
Long-Finned Characin
Longnose Loach
Lyretails

Mailed Catfishes
Malabar Danio
Marbled Hatchetfish
Managuense Cichlid
Mollies
Moonlight Gourami
Mosquito Fish

Neon tetra
One Striped African Characin
Oscar
Parachromis Managuense
Pearl Danio
Pearl Gourami
Pentazona Barb
Piranhas
Queen Danio

Ramirez Dwarf Cichlid
Red Cichlid
Red Empress Cichlid
Redfin Shark
Red Line Torpedo Bar
Red Tailed Black Shark
Red Zebra
Reedfish
Rosy Barb

Sailfin Catfish
Scat
Scleropages
Senegal Bichir
Serpa Tetra
Shortfin Barb
Siamese Fighting Fish
Silver Dollar
Skunk Loach
Snakeheads
Spiny Eel
Spotted Danio
Spraying Characin
Striped Anostomus
Suckermouth Catfish (Striped)
Sumatra Barb
Swordtail

Tiger Barb
Tiger Fish
Ticto Barb
Tilapias
Tilapia Mariae
Tinfoil Barb
Three Banded Pencilfish
Three Spot Gourami
Turquoise Danio

Variegated Platy
Velvet Cichlid (Oscar)
White Cloud Mountain Minnow
Zebra Tilapia
Zebra Danio


Goldfish Varieties

Black Moor
Bubble Eye
Celestial Eye
Comet
Fantail
Lionhead

Oranda
Pearlscale
Pompom
Ryukin
Shubunkin

Telescope Eye
Ranchu
Panda Moor
Veiltail

State Fishes

Fish Common Names & Fish Types

Freshwater Aquarium Fish Diseases