The Top 10 Species of: Early Tropical Fish Kept In The Aquarium Hobby. Our First Ornamental Pet Fish

10 Fish Kept In The Hobby for over 120 Years!
The Top 10 Aquarium Fish Kept OVER 120 YEARS! The Early Ornamental Fishkeeping Hobby.

1. Paradise fish
Macropodus opercularis
Linnaeus: Labrus opercularis1758
–Macropodus chinensis
Hearty 10
Specimen made it to Europe preserved but the firtst live fish were officially introduced to the hobby by a French soldier named Gerault in 1869. USA by 1880s/90s. Known for morphs of blue, albino or white tiger , red and various finnages

Blue moon/opal / 3 spot / dwarf blue
Thick lipped gourami /crimson/citrus
Trichopsis labiosa
Native to myanmar & inle
2 inches long , breath air , labyrinth fishes
70-80 degrees 21-27.


9. African Butterfly fish
Pantodon buchholzi / Upside down fish
4 or 5 inches and tolerate 21-28c or 70-82f and named in by wkh peters 1877 (elephant nose fish named after) west Africa To the Congo

8. Golden top minnow
(Fundulus chFlorida,
Haplochilus chrysotus Günther, 1866
USA Ohio missouri Kentucky carolina Georgia Texas trinity river. 2.5-3 in. hardy,
2 years life span
The golden topminnow breeds throughout the spring and on into the summer months from April to July, and sometimes as late as September. During courtship the male swims in loops or circles above or beside the female, sometimes pausing to bob his head up and down. Eggs are released individually and deposited on the roots of floating plants or on other fibrous material by the female, where afterwards they are fertilized one at a time by the male. After hatching the larvae rest on leaves or on the bottom and begin to grow quickly reaching maturation after 10 months


7. Cichlasoma or Chameleon Cichlid
Australoheros facetus
Cichlasoma facetum
6 inches long resistant to cold 66 degrees.

6. Zebra danio / Zebra fish
Danio rerio- "Cyprinus rerio" "Danio lineatus" f. HAMILTON 1822
Grow 1 to 2 inches and have spotted and striped natural variants plus dozens of human morphs
10 -38c / 50 to 101f ! Most studied fish or vertebrates alive tied with mice.

5. Betta splendens
Betta /siamese fighting fish

4. Gold Barb / Rosy Barb /Schuberti barb / Red Chinese Cyprinid
Pethia conchonius - Rosy Barb
Barbodes semifasciolatus,
the Chinese barb.
Afghanistan, India to thailand to china in north
Cold tolerant 60 to 84 or 15-26c
1 to 2 inches


3. Corydoras Paleatus
Pepper Cory, Mottled cory, blue pepper, blue leopard
From parana river, Brasil Uruguay


2. Hyphessobrycon heterorhabdus
Red flag tetra / tetra Bandera
66-80 only inch long.

1. Victorian Mouth Brooders Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor
3 inches
found in rivers, lakes, and other freshwater habitats in Eastern Africa from Egypt and as far south as Tanzania.


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