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Fishes in the exhibition:

• Name: Red Tail Cat Fish
  Scientific Name: Phractocephalus
  Family: Pimelodidae
  Size: 24 inches
  Feed: Carnivore
  Origin: Brazil, Venezuela



• Name: Silver Dollar
  Family: Serrasalmiae
  Size: 5-8 inches
  Food: Diet high in vegetable based, frozen dried and flake food, small live food.
  Origin: South America



• Name: Snake heads
  Common Name: Giant Snake head/Murrel
  Zoological Name: Channa Marulius
  Phylum: Chordata
  Class: Pisces
  Order: Channiformes
  Genus: Channa
  Species: Marulius
  Description: It is a air breathing fish. It is suitable for culture in irrigation wells and shallow derelict swamps and breeds in the pre-monsoon months. It reaches a maximum size of about 1.2m.



• Name: Flower Horn
  They have been created through cross breeding different South American Cichlids. The male fish has a hump on the forehead.



• Name: Peacock Spiny Eel
  Scientific Name: Macrognathus Aculeatus
  Origin: South East Asia
  Size: 14 inches
  Food: Blood worms, Mosquito larvae



• Cat Fish:



• Name: Red Tail Tinfoil Barb
  Scientific Name: Bar Bodes Schwanenfeldil
  Size: 14 inches
  Food: Floating Flake food



• Name: Molly
  Maximum Size: 3 inches
  Diet: The black Molly is omnivorous and prefers both meat food and algae. Provide this fish with an algae-based flake food as well as freeze-dried bloodworms, tubifex and brine shrimp.
  Origin: Farm based, Singapore



• Name: River Stone Carp
  Scientific Name: Psilorhynchus Sucatio
  Size: Up to 60 cms.
  Distribution: India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
  Found mainly in the edges of sandy streams.



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