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They’re cave spawners like dwarf cichlids; males embrace females during spawning like anabantoids. Single species tanks are necessary for breeding, but they can be kept with other small species that won’t outcompete them for food, such as small rasboras or killies. They’ll take frozen as well...

Males have lemon yellow dorsal fins; female’s dorsals have a thin orange edge.

Female.

Laetacara curviceps is my favorite, mostly because I’m partial to blue fish, but also because it’s the first cichlid I ever bred and helped lead me down the rabbit hole of MTS. I currently have a breeding pair descended from fish a friend of mine somehow found at a Petco in Manhattan. And, yes...

I’ve always had a soft spot for Laetacara araguaiae. They're very nondescript when young, but soon grow into spectacular, pastel colored adults. Nannacara anomala are a bit feistier, and a brooding female will sometimes kill her mate if the tank is too small. I keep mine in groups of 6 +, the...

Sauron’s Eye looking out from the Teddy.

Pygmy sunfish, especially Elassoma gilberti, have become fairly popular among U.S . fishkeepers.

I kept them in the late 70s. I was pleasantly surprised when I spotted them at an LFS in Brooklyn, now long defunct. I purchased them as 1.5 inch juveniles which grew to 2.5 inches in the 2 years I had them. They were kept in an unheated tank and happily ate flake foods, but never showed any...

The Cadillac of Worms.

There’s been a red-bodied, blue-finned form of Macropodus opercularis appearing in big box stores lately. They’re calling it the “Fire and Ice Paradise Fish”, and it’s actually quite impressive.

I’m usually against any line bred fish, but Blue Flame agassizii are amazingly beautiful. I’m very curious as to how this strain was developed.

I’ve seen my male dageti try to mate with juvenile Dicrossus maculatus and Macropodus ocellatus in the presence of females of their own species. They’re just randy little buggers.