Livestock

Common Name: Red-Bellied Piranha
Scientific Name: Pygocentrus nattereri
Size: Up to 12 inches (30cm)
Suitability: INTERMEDIATE
Feeding: Carnivore: Live or dead meaty foods. There is no particular need to feed live fish, as they can easily be weaned onto thawed mussel, prawn, etc - some even take pellets which can help to provide a varied diet. The use of "feeder fish" carries a strong risk of introducing disease.
Compatibility:A highly predatory carnivore, best kept in a shoal in a species tank.

Large Amazon Biotope Aquarium Housing a Small Shoal of Red-Bellied Piranhas on Display in Store

Common Name: Motoro Stingray
Scientific name: Potamotrygon motoro, P01, P03, P044
Size: Up to 36 inches (90cm) Usually around 24 Inches (60cm) in captivity
Suitability: INTERMEDIATE - EXPERT (Venomous)
Feeding: High-metabolic fish that are constantly moving. The ideal way is to place excess live feeds (eg. feeder shrimps) in the tank to allow feeding at their own pace.
Compatibility: A large animal that can take smaller fish that linger on the substrate. Best kept with peaceful but robust medium-sized to larger tank mates. Aggressive fish can damage a rays disc.

Common Name: Silver Pike Characin
Scientific Name: Ctenolucius hujeta
Size: Up to 28 inches (70cm) but usually smaller.
Suitability: INTERMEDIATE
Feeding: Carnivorous: meaty foods, worms etc - may prove difficult to wean onto 'dead' meaty foods.
Compatibility:A predatory fish, best kept with larger tank mates.

Common Name: New Yellow Regal Peacock
Scientific Name: Aulonocara baenschi
Size: 4 Inches (10cm) Can reach 6 Inches (15cm).
Suitability: INTERMEDIATE
Feeding: Invertivore; mix of dry and frozen (or live) foods
Compatibility: It is better kept alone (in species tanks) or in community tanks without any other Aulonocara females. Cross breeds very easily mainly because the females of all Aulonocara species are almost identical. Too peaceful to be housed with similarly sized mbuna, it is too small to be kept with Malawi haps (especially piscivores).

Common Name: Reedfish
Scientific Name: Erpetoichthys calabaricus
Size: Can reach 36 Inches (90-96cm)
Suitability: INTERMEDIATE
Feeding: Will readily accept bloodworms and most other frozen foods that sink to the bottom of the tank. If kept with other fast eating fish it is best to put the Reedfish's food in a narrow tube which only it would be able to enter, or feed it bloodworms by hand. Will find the food by smell. If this setup is kept in the same spot in the tank it would soon learn where to find food when he is hungry.
Compatibility: Sociable with their own kind and intraspecific aggression is not generally observed. They are also safe to keep with any other fish which are large enough not to fit in their mouths.

Common Name: Siamese Fighting Fish
Scientific Name: Betta splendens
Size: Up to 3 Inches (7-8cm)
Suitability: BEGINNER
Feeding: Live foods such as bloodworm, will eat flakes and frozen foods
Compatibility: May be kept in a community tank as long as the water conditions are met, and if no aggressive or fin-nipping fish are present. However, only one male may be kept in each aquarium, unless they are separated by a barrier.

Common Name: Rainbow Garra
Scientific Name: Garra flavatra
Size: Up to 3.5 Inches (8-9cm)
Suitability: BEGINNER - INTERMEDIATE
Feeding: Algae and detritus in the aquarium, but supplementing their diet with algae wafers and frozen foods and pellets of bloodworms and similar items will improve their nutrition. Panda Garras are omnivorous and their diet should consist of prepared algae flake food or algae tablets as well as frozen or freeze-dried foods.
Compatibility: Peaceful bottom feeder. Will tolerate any other peaceful fish as well as their own kind.