The common name is derived from its natural ability to move across land using its stiff pectoral spines, provided it stays damp. It has special mucous-producing pores on its body to help in this, and it can seal its gills to prevent loss of moisture. The gills themselves are stiffened in order to prevent them collapsing outside the water. It can also survive in oxygen-depleted conditions due to its ability to breathe atmospheric air. In fact, it is thought that the fish can literally drown if deprived access to the water surface for long enough.
It’s an important food fish in its native lands, but Walking catfish now also considered a pest species, its hardy and robust nature means it can outcompete many naturally-occuring species and predate on others.


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The kissing habit of this gourami is not a sign of affection between male and female, but a trial strength between two males, and forms part of courtship ritual as they try to impress a suitable female. These gouramis are very useful in the aquarium because they will pick away at algae, taking it off plant leaves without damaging them. There are two colour form of this species, the green is considered the wild form and pink, the aquarium form.

Special for CNY 2014, the Horse year!

Unique true loach from family Cobitidae. This species is easy to keep but must be provided with a soft, sandy substrate since some of its time will be spent completely buried, or with only eyes protruding. Acantopsis spp. typically sift mouthfuls of substrate through the gills from which insect larvae, small crustaceans and suchlike are extracted.
Horse Face Loach rarely seen in Fish Shop and sometimes come in high price.

One of the most beautiful glass-perch from Indonesia. Males develop extended dorsal and anal fin spines and posses red pigmentation (which give the name Rose-flame) in all unpaired fins, whereas females are basically colourless and lack extended fin spines. Gymnochanda species are gregarious by nature and ideally a group of 8-10 specimens should be the smallest purchased.

Stunning small rainbowfish from Indonesia and also Northern Australia. Gertrudae named for the wife of Dr. Hugo Merton, a German naturalist who visited the Aru Islands, eastern Indonesia, in 1907 and 1908. Wild populations of this species tend to be somewhat isolated from one another, and exhibit various, often highly-localised, differences in colour pattern, body size, and fin morphology. This species is kinda rare in shop or aquarium here in Indonesia, and usually come in high price!

Beautiful little fish from Celebes Island, Indonesia. Like all rainbowfish, Males are more colourful than females. It is easily distinguish by the elongated second dorsal fins and also anal fins in male. Due to ornamental fish business and pollution, their numbers have dramatically reduced. They listed as 'vulnerable' on the IUCNRedlist of threatened species. Thankfully, it is now being mass-produced on fish farms meaning that fewer wild caught specimens are available as a result.