Quick “at a glance” care sheets for many of the most commonly kept aquarium fish.
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Common Name
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Scientific Name
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Allotoca goslinei
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Black Line Mosquitofish
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Gambusia vittata
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Poecilia sphenops
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Characoden audax
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Ameca Splendens
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Catemaco Platy
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Xiphophorus milleri
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Eastern Mosquitofish
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Gambusia holbrooki
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Elegant poeciliid, Tiger Teddy
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Neoheterandria elegans
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Endlers Livebearer
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Poecilia wingei
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Ilyodon furcidens
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Allotoca dugesi
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Skiffia francesae
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Poecilia reticulata
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Limia nigrofasciata
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Indonesian Halfbeak
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Nomorhamphus megarrhamphus
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Alfaro cultratus
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Least Killifish
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Heterandria formosa
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Metallic Livebearer, Metallic Topminnow
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Girardinus metallicus
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Poecilia latipinna, sphenops
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Xiphophorus montezumae
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Gambusia affinis
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Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl
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Xiphophorus meyeri
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Xenotoca eiseni
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Para Molly, Micropoecilia parae, Poecilia vivipera parae
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Poecilia parae
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Xiphophorus maculatus
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Characodon lateralis
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Poecilia velifera
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Xiphophorus hellerii
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Tequila fish, Tequila Splitfin
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Zoogoneticus tequila
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Heterandria bimaculata
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Xiphophorus variatus
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Dermogenys pusilla
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Scientific Name
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Common Name
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Alfaro cultratus
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Allotoca dugesi
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Allotoca goslinei
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Ameca Splendens
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Characoden audax
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Black Prince (Bold Characodon)
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Characodon lateralis
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Rainbow Characodon (Rainbow Goodeid)
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Dermogenys pusilla
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Neoheterandria elegans
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Elegant poeciliid (Tiger Teddy)
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Gambusia affinis
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Gambusia holbrooki
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Eastern Mosquitofish
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Gambusia vittata
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Black Line Mosquitofish
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Girardinus metallicus
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Metallic Livebearer (Metallic Topminnow)
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Heterandria bimaculata
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Heterandria formosa
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Least Killifish
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Ilyodon furcidens
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Limia nigrofasciata
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Nomorhamphus megarrhamphus
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Indonesian Halfbeak
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Poecilia latipinna
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Poecilia parae
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Para Molly (Micropoecilia parae, Poecilia vivipera parae)
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Poecilia reticulata
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Poecilia sphenops
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Black Molly (Molly)
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Poecilia velifera
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Poecilia wingei
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Endlers Livebearer
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Skiffia francesae
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Xenotoca eiseni
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Xiphophorus hellerii
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Xiphophorus maculatus
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Xiphophorus meyeri
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Xiphophorus milleri
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Catemaco Platy
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Xiphophorus montezumae
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Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl
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Xiphophorus variatus
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Zoogoneticus tequila
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Tequila fish (Tequila Splitfin)
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