Below are selected pictures of
freshwater fish
from around the world. Other related photos may be found in the country sections on the left.
Except where noted, all images are the property of Rhett A. Butler, copyright 1994-2006. Contact me with questions regarding use, reproduction, or purchase of any of the pictures.
Lungfish |
Angelfish |
Cardinal Tetras |
Pumpkinseed |
Angelfish |
Lake Malawai Cichlids |
Altum Angel Biotope Tank |
Altum Angel Biotope Tank |
discus |
discus |
discus |
Chinese sucker (Myxocyprinus asiaticus) |
Freshwater crab partially buried in gravel |
South American tetra tank |
Dwarf ram (Microgeophagus or Papiliochromis ramirezi) cichlid |
Green Terror (Aequidens rivulatus) |
Pleco with orange-red fins |
Plecostomus (suckermouth catfish) with orange to red fins |
Silver arowana in the Amazon walkway at the Shanghai aquarium |
Pair of giant adult silver arowana |
Pair of Arapaima |
Tourists at the Amazon fish tunnel at the Shanghai aquarium |
Rainbowfish tank at the aquarium in Shanghai |
Archerfish display tank |
Adult Red Rainbowfish (Glossolepis incisus) |
Archer fish (Toxotes jaculatrix) in a biotope tank at Shanghai's aquarium |
Malawi cichlid tank at the Shanghai aquarium |
Asian aquarium with Tilapia |
Lake Malawi mbuna cichlid biotope tank |
Margined Bullhead (Leiobagrus marginatus)
Black plecostomus with turquoise polka-dots |
Yellow-spotted black Amazon stingray (Potamotrygon leopoldi). AKA Polka dot ray |
Silver Arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) |
Giant arapaima |
Giant arowana as viewed from below |
Arowana as seen from below in the Amazon fish tunnel at the Shanghai aquarium |
Osteoglossum bicirrhosum |
Arowana in the Shanghai aquarium fish tunnel |
Pair of silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) |
Pair of Parachromis managuensis |
Visitors at the Shanghai aquarium Amazon fish tunnel |
Arapaima gigas |
Rainbowfish biotope |
Rainbowfish from Australia and New Guinea |
Australian and New Guinean rainbowfish |
Rainbow fish from Australia and New Guinea |
Australia and New Guinea rainbowfish |
Glossolepis incisus |
Brackish water biotope tank with Archerfish and scats |
Scats and archer fish in a brackish water river estuary biotope tank |
Southeast Asian biotope aquarium |
Malawi cichlid biotope |
Southeast Asian gourami and barb tank |
Malawi mbuna cichlids |
Gouramis |
Freshwater needlefish |
Giant catfish, snakehead, barbs, gourami in an Asian aquarium
| Angelfish
| Angelfish
| Angelfish
| Discus
| Discus
| Lake Malawi Cichlids
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