Common name: Striped Headstander.

Species: Anostomus Anostomus.

Habitat: Venezuela, Columbia.

Potential size: 18cm.

Social behaviour: A lively, peaceful community fish. Can be kept as a single specimen or in groups.

Food: Flake, frozen food, live food etc.

Common name: Dwarf Pencilfish.

Species: Nannostomus marginatus.

Habitat: Brazil, Columbia, Peru.

Potential size: 5cm.

Social behaviour: A peaceful community fish. Best kept in groups of 4 or 5+.

Food: Flake, granules, frozen food, live food etc.

Common name: Ternetz's Anostomus.

Species: Anostomus ternetzi.

Habitat: South America.

Potential size: 15cm.

Social behaviour: A peaceful community fish, for medium to large fish community aquariums.

Food: Flake, granules, frozen food, live food etc.

Common name: Peacock Goby.

Species: Tateurndina ocellicauda.

Habitat: New Guinea.

Potentail size: 7.5cm.

Social behaviour: Generally peaceful, may occasionally fin nip.

Food: Flake, granules, frozen food, live food etc.

Common name: Golden Pencilfish 'Red'.

Species: Nannostomus beckfordi.

Habitat: South America: Native to the rivers of Guyana, south to the Amazon Basin & up to the Negro River.

Potential size: 6.4cm.

Social behaviour: A peaceful community fish. Best kept in groups of 4 or 5+.

Food: Flake, granules, frozen food, live food etc.

Common name: Australian Empire Gudgeon.

Species: Hypseleotris compressa.

Habitat: Australia & Papua New Guinea.

Potential size: 10cm.

Social behaviour: Ideal species for harder water aquariums. Hypseleotris compressa is not especially aggressive, although it will eat any fish small enough to fit into its mouth. Good tankmates include Rainbowfish & Livebearers. 

Food: Flake, granules, frozen food, live food etc.

Common name: Sulawesi Ricefish / Daisy's Ricefish.

Species: Oryzias woworae.

Habitat: Described from a single locality, a stream named Mata aiv Fotuno in Parigi district on the island of Manu: South east Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Potential size: 3cm.

Social behaviour: An active, peaceful community fish. Best kept in groups of 5 or 6+ in a species or small community fish aquarium.

Food: Flake, frozen food, live food etc.

Common name: Hockeystick Pencilfish.

Species: Nannostomus eques.

Habitat: South America. Inhabits sluggish tributaries, small rivers, and swampy zones, especially in areas where aquatic vegetation grows densely or with submerged woody structures and leaf litter.

Potential size: 3.5cm.

Social behaviour: Very peaceful schooling fish, best kept in groups of 5 or 6+. Ideal for the small-fish communtiy aquarium.

Food: Flake, micro-granules, frozen food, live food etc.

Common name: Steel Blue Killifish.

Species: Fundulopanchax gardneri.

Habitat: Africa; Nigeria and Cameroon. Inhabits creeks, swamps, streams and pools in humid, forested, highland savannah and areas of rainforest.

Potential size: 5-5.5cm.

Social behaviour: A robust killi that can be kept with other fish of a similar size and nature. Males can be aggressive toward one another but provided the aquarium contains sufficient refuges a group can normally be maintained together.

Food: Flake, frozen food, live food etc.