Odd and Unusual Critter for Your Aquarium
Chris Deer
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 Rabbit Snail |
It takes a little more spice to excite you when looking for something odd or unusual. Here are just a few of our favorites . . .
Rabbit Snails
This is an awesome new snail from Indonesia for the freshwater aquarium. These guys are plant safe spending their time eating algae and detritus. This is a live-bearing species of snail. |
Tiger Snail |
Zebra Snail |
These are new varieties of nerite snails for the freshwater aquarium. The shell patterns are lovely and these are completely safe for even planted aquariums. Though these snails will lay eggs in the tank, they will not hatch in freshwater meaning you will never be over-populated.
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The Tinanti Buffalo Head Goby Cichlid |
This is the most colorful and interesting species of the buffalo heads. Bouncing from place to place in the aquarium, this fish is a fun addition. We suggest housing this fish with tankmates like barbs, gouramis, sharks, silver dollars and such. Do not house this fish will slender tetras as they will likely be on his menu. |
| This wonderful eel from Lake Tanganyika is rarely available making it somewhat expensive. But if fed a diet of live worms and live shrimp, it will settle into captivity smoothly. You should have a fine sand or fine gravel for substrate to offer this eels a soft place to burrow along with some rocky cave structures. Ensure that you get food to this guy if placed in the tank with boisterous tankmates. |
Banded Elipsifer Eel from Lake Tanganyika |
The Scarlet Badis (Dario dario) |
At full size, this freshwater fish is only about 1� in length. The ones at the store are just under 1/2� making them a meal for larger fish! This is THE perfect fish for the planted aquarium. Being peaceful and small, we suggest housing it with smaller schooling tetras, rasboras, platies and
corydoras catfish types. Feed small prepared and frozen fish foods |
Planicep Shovelnose Catfish |
| If you want a fish that grows large, then watch out for this one. It grows to about the size of your average mother- in- law but is much quieter. It will eat anything that can fit into its large mouth. |
Prehistoric Monsterfish |
Lurking beneath the sandy areas of the Amazon is this absolutely ugly creature commonly known as the prehistoric monsterfish. If you want to
keep this �beauty�, you will need a sandy substrate and inhabitants that are peaceful but large enough to stay out of this critters huge mouth. The only time you will even see this monster move is when it lunges up to eat small feeder fish which is all it will eat (live foods only). Not a beauty pageant winner but certainly cool as all heck! This is a pure freshwater species. |
| While wild collected specimens can be challenging to maintain, these cultured babies are much hardier, less shy but more expensive. But wouldn�t you rather have a hardier version of this beautiful tang? Captive grown specimens adapt to the aquarium almost instantly and are already accustomed to aquarium life and prepared foods. |
Cultured Blue Regal Tangs |
Yashia Haze Goby |
This is a hardy species that performs
best when kept in reef aquariums where it can dig out a burrow. For there, this fish will hover just outside its hole where it can dart back in if spooked. This fish is not a hider once
established. |
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