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A freshwater aquarium with colorful discus fish swimming among green plants, rocks, and driftwood on a sandy substrate—perfect for those seeking a beginner's guide to aquatic setups.

Freshwater Fish

Discover One of Metro Detroit’s Largest Selections of Freshwater Fish

Part of the fun of keeping a freshwater aquarium is that there’s always something new to discover. At Moby Dick Pet Store, we frequently hear customers say, “Wow, I’ve never seen that before!”

That’s exactly the reaction we are going for. We are proud to offer one of Michigan’s largest and most diverse selections of freshwater fish, including popular favorites and unique varieties you may not find at a typical pet store. Whether you’re setting up your very first aquarium or adding fish to an established tank, our knowledgeable team can help you find the right fit.

Why shop Moby Dick Pets for freshwater fish?

  • Large and constantly changing freshwater selection
  • Healthy, quality fish from carefully chosen sources
  • Trusted breeders and suppliers
  • Knowledgeable staff who are aquarium hobbyists themselves
  • Fair, competitive pricing
  • Tanks, equipment, food, water, décor, and aquascaping supplies
  • Free help planning your aquarium and aquascape
  • In-home aquarium setup and maintenance services
  • Special ordering for many fish and products we don’t currently have in stock
A small striped freshwater fish with black, yellow, and orange markings rests on sandy aquarium gravel with green plants blurred in the background.

Algae Eaters

  • Chinese
  • Panda Garra
  • Garra Rufa
  • Siamese algae eater
  • Otocinclus
  • Chinese algae eater
  • Flying fox
A silver angelfish with black stripes swims in a brightly lit aquarium, surrounded by green plants and pink decorations against a blue background.

Angelfish

  • Koi
  • Red Devil
  • Platinum
  • Panda
  • Silver
  • Marble
  • Veil
  • Black
  • Blue
  • Smokey
  • Blushing
  • Gold
  • Leopard
A colorful freshwater fish with red, yellow, and blue scales swims near green aquatic plants in an aquarium.

Apistogramma

  • Agassizii
  • Atahualpa
  • Balloon body
  • Bitaeniata
  • Black ram
  • Borellii
  • Cacatuoides
  • Clown ram
  • Electric Blue Ram
  • German Blue Ram
  • Gold Ram
  • Hongsloi
A colorful small fish with black vertical stripes, yellow fins, and a red tail swims in front of a green, blurry underwater background.

Apistogramma

  • Macmasteri
  • Nissenji
  • Panduro
  • Pulchra
  • Rams
  • Regani
  • Ruby ram
  • Staecki
  • Steindachneri
  • Trifasciata
  • Vieja
A striking freshwater fish, the silver arowana dazzles with its shiny, iridescent scales as it glides gracefully against a black background.

Arowana

  • Albino
  • Jardini
  • Silver
A small, vibrant red fish with horizontal white stripes swims against a blurred yellow-green background. Its fins are delicate and partially translucent with hints of white edges.

Badis

  • Badis badis
  • Blue
  • Scarlet
  • Tiger
A bright orange and gold fish with shiny scales swims in a freshwater aquarium over white gravel, with green plants and a rock visible in the background.

Barbs

  • Arulius
  • Black Ruby
  • Checkerboard
  • Cherry
  • Cherry albino
  • Denisonii
  • Drapefin
  • Filamentosus
  • Gold
  • Hi-Fin
  • Mascara
  • Melon
  • Odessa
  • Panda
  • Pentazona
  • Pygmy
  • Rhombo
  • Roseline
  • Rosy
  • Rosy glass
  • Rosy longfin
  • Rosy neon
  • T-Bar
  • Tiger
  • Tiger albino
  • Tiger albino
  • Tiger green
  • Tiger jade
  • Tiger longfin
  • Tiger platinum
  • Tinfoil
A vibrant orange, yellow, and white betta fish with long, flowing fins swims near the surface of a clear aquarium.

Bettas

  • Alien
  • Black Copper
  • Black metal
  • Blue marble
  • Blue Rim
  • Cambodian
  • Candy koi
  • Crowntail
  • Dragon scale
  • Dumbo ear
  • Galaxy
  • Giant
  • Halfmoon
  • Hellboy
  • Koi
  • Longfin
  • Mustard
  • Nemo
  • Platinum
  • Roundtail
  • Samurai
  • Super delta
  • Twinlobe
  • Veiltail
  • White metal
  • Yellow tiger
A clown loach fish with orange and black stripes swims near the gravel at the bottom of an aquarium, with green plants and a brown ceramic decoration in the background.

Botias and Loaches

  • Angelicus
  • Bengal
  • Berdmori
  • Borneo
  • Burmese Border
  • Butterfly
  • Chain
  • Clown
  • Crimson
  • Dario
  • Emperor
  • Hillstream
  • Hong Kong
  • Horseface
  • Hovering
  • Kubotai
  • Kuhlii Striped/Black
  • Lizard
  • Monkey
  • Panda
  • Queen
  • Robusta
  • Rosy
  • Skunk
  • Tiger
  • Twelve Bar
  • Yo-Yo
  • Zebra
  • Zipper
Three transparent glass catfish swim over gravel in an aquarium, with a few colorful fish visible in the background.

Catfish

  • Achara
  • Anchor/Moth
  • Banjo
  • Bumble bee
  • Chaca
  • Channel
  • Electric
  • Farlowella
  • Flying fox
  • Four line
  • Glass
  • Grasscutter
  • Gulper
  • Harlequin
  • Hoplo
  • Jaguar
  • Jelly
  • Jewel
  • Lancer
  • Leopard
  • Lima
  • Lima Shovelnose
  • Lizard
  • Pictus
  • Pimodella
  • Porthole
  • Raphael
  • Redtail
  • Ripsaw
  • Sailfin
  • Shark
  • Shovelnose
  • Snoring
  • Soldier
  • Spotted pictus
  • Stone
  • Sun
  • Whiptail
  • Wood
A colorful fish with blue, black, and white markings swims against a dark background, with part of a brown branch visible at the bottom.

Cichlids South/Central American

  • African Butterfly
  • Agassizii
  • Albino Oscar
  • Altifrons
  • Amatitlania Myrnae
  • Amatitlania Nanoluteus
  • Amatitlania Nigrofasciata
  • Amatitlania Sajica
  • Amphilophus citrinellus
  • Amphilophus trimaculatus
  • Apistogramma
  • Archocentrus centrarchus
  • Balzanii
  • Black Belt
  • Blood Red Parrot
  • Blue/Green/Electric Blue Acara
  • Brasiliensis
  • Bujurqui
  • Cacatoides
  • Caquetaia spectabilis
  • Carpintis
  • Centrarchus
  • Checkerboard
  • Chocolate
  • Cichla ocellaris
  • Citrinellus
  • Convict
  • Cribroheros
  • Cryptoheros
  • Curvicepts
  • Cutteri
  • Dimerus
  • Dovii
  • Electric Blue Jack Dempsey
A bright red freshwater aquarium fish with light blue spots swimming in an aquarium, with green aquatic plants blurred in the background.

Cichlids South/Central American

  • Festivum
  • Flier
  • Flowerhorn
  • Geophagus
  • Gold Severum
  • Grammodes
  • Green Chromide
  • Green Severum
  • Green terror
  • Heckeli
  • Hericthys Bartoni
  • Heroina isonycterina
  • Heros efasciatus
  • Honduran Red Point
  • Hoplarchus Psittacus
  • Inka
  • Ivanacara bimaculate
  • Jack Dempsey
  • Keyhole
  • Kribensis
  • Laetacara
  • Lemon Oscar
  • Lyonsi
  • Macaw
  • Managuense
  • Mapiritensis
  • Mesoheros festae
  • Mesoheros gephyrum
  • Mesoheros ornatus
  • Midas
  • Multispinosa
  • Nicaraguensis
  • Orange Chromid
  • Oscar
  • Parachromis friedrichsthalii
  • Peacock bass
  • Pike
  • Platinum Parrot
  • Polar Parrot
A close-up photo of a blue freshwater fish with black, iridescent spots swimming in an aquarium with a blurred background of rocks and plants.

Cichlids South/Central American

  • Rainbow
  • Ramierzi
  • Red Devil
  • Red Festae
  • Red Head Tapajo
  • Red Hump
  • Red Jewel
  • Red Oscar
  • Red Severum
  • Regani
  • Salvini
  • Satanoperca
  • Steindachneri
  • Surinamensis
  • Sveni
  • Synspilum
  • Tamasopo
  • T-bar
  • Texas Blue
  • Texas Green
  • Texas Red
  • Thorichthys affinis
  • Thorichthys Aureum
  • Thorichthys aureus
  • Thorichthys Firemouth
  • Thorichthys helleri
  • Thorichthys maculipinnis
  • Thorichthys meeki
  • Tiger Oscar
  • Tomocichla tuba
  • Trimaculatus
  • Turquoise Jewel
  • Uaru
  • Vieja
  • Vieja bifasciata
  • Vieja fenestrate
  • Vieja maculicauda
  • Winemilleri Yellow jacket
A dark-colored fish with light spots and spiky fins swims against a bright blue background.

Cichlids African(Malawi/Tanganyika/Victoria)

  • Acei
  • Altolamprologus Calvus Black Congo, Inkfin
  • Altolamprologus Compressiceps Red, Kgunga, Mandarin, Gold face, Kigoma
  • Aristo Christyi
  • Auratus
  • Barracuda
  • Borleyi
  • Brichardi
  • Bumblebee
  • Caudopunctatus
  • Chalinochromis brichardi
  • Chipokae
  • Cobalt
  • Cylindricus
  • Cynotilapia White Top Hara
  • Daffodil
  • Demasoni
  • Dragon Blood
  • Frontosa, Red, Black Widow
  • Hap Ahli
  • Haplochromis
  • Ice Blue
  • Jacob
  • Johanni
  • Julidichromis Regani, Kipili, Ornatus, Dickfeldi, Marlieri, Transcriptus
A colorful freshwater fish with a yellow and green body, black vertical stripes, and orange fins swims underwater near a rocky surface.

Cichlids African(Malawi/Tanganyika/Victoria)

  • Kennyi
  • Kyoga Flameback
  • Lamprologus Sp.
  • Leleupi/Longior
  • Maingano
  • Maulana Bicolor
  • Mbunas
  • Moorii Blue Dolphin
  • Msobo Deep
  • Multipunctatus
  • Neolamprologus Tretochephalus
  • Ngara
  • Nyererei
  • O/B Orange Blotch
  • Obliquidens
  • Ocellatus
  • Otopharynx Sp.
  • Placidochromis Star Sapphire
  • Ruby Green
  • Similis
  • Socolofi
  • Springer/Rusty
  • Sulfurhead
  • Sunburst
  • Sunshine
  • Tetracanthus
  • Three Spot Torpedo
  • Tomato
  • Tropheus Sp.
  • Turkis
  • Venustus
  • Yellow Blaze
  • Yellow Lab
  • Zebra Red/Blue
A small corydoras catfish swims near green moss in a freshwater aquarium, above brown and white gravel.

Corydoras/Brochis Catfish

  • Acutus
  • Adolfoi
  • Aeneus/Bronze
  • Arcuata
  • Blochi
  • Britskii
  • Concolor
  • CW217 Concolor
  • Delphax
  • Habrosus/Salt and Pepper
  • Haraldschultzi
  • Imitator
  • Incolicana
  • Julii
  • Leopardus
  • Leucomelas
  • Loxozonus
  • Melanitius
  • Melanotaenia
Three spotted catfish, a captivating type of freshwater fish, swim near the sandy bottom of an aquarium with a rocky background. Their bodies are pale with dark spots and long white whiskers.

Corydoras/Brochis Catfish

  • Melini
  • Metae
  • Paleatus/Peppered
  • Panda
  • Punctatus
  • Pygmy
  • Rabauti
  • Reticulatus
  • Robinae
  • Robusta
  • Schwartzi
  • Seussi
  • Sodalis
  • Spectabilis
  • Splendens/Emerald
  • Sterbai
  • Trilineatus/Three Stripe
  • Vittatus
  • Weitzmani
A bright orange hermit crab with long antennae crawls on white gravel, carrying a textured dark shell, with a blurred green and blue background behind it—an ideal example for any hermit crab care enthusiast or those seeking the perfect photo for a hermit crab guide.

Crabs

  • Banana
  • Halloween
  • Hermit
  • Panther
  • Patriot
  • Pom-Pom
  • Red Apple
  • Red Claw
  • Red Thai
  • Thai Micro Spider
  • Vampire, Bi-Color, Blue, Red Devil, Carinival, Lemon, Purple, Tri-Color,
A small, colorful fish with a bright orange-red body, black spots, and red fins swims in a tank. The background is blurry with another faint fish visible.

Danios

  • Celestial Pearl
  • Emerald Dwarf
  • Giant
  • Glo
  • Glowlight
  • Kerri/Blue
  • Kyathit
  • Leopard
  • Panther
  • Pearl
  • Tinwini
Orange and red patterned discus fish with a rounded body and black-tipped fins swimming against a bright blue background.

Discus

  • Albino
  • Blue Diamond
  • Cobalt
  • Eruption
  • Gold
  • High Body
  • Leopard
  • Melon Red
  • Panda
  • Pigeon Red/Yellow
  • Rafflesia
  • Rose
  • Snakeskin
  • Turquoise
  • White Butterfly
A brown and green fish with a long, slender body swims among bright green aquatic plants in clear water.

Eels

  • Fire
  • Goldflake/Snowflake
  • Marbled
  • Peacock
  • Rope Fish
  • Starry Night
  • Swamp
  • Tiger Moray
  • Tiretrack
  • Yellow Spiny
  • Zigzag
A small brown frog with mottled skin clings to a green plant stem underwater. Some tiny floating plants are nearby. The background is blurry with green and yellow hues.

Frogs

  • African Clawed Frogs
  • African Dwarf Frogs
  • Albino/Platinum/Gold
A long, brown fish with a pattern of dark spots swims in greenish water, surrounded by aquatic plants.

Gar

  • Florida
  • Hujeta/Rocket
  • Needle Nose
  • South American
  • Spotted
A close-up of a bright green fish swimming in an aquarium, with blurred plants and water in the background.

GloFish

  • Angelfish
  • Barbs
  • Corydoras
  • Danio
  • Gourami
  • Sharks
  • Tetra
  • Pristella
A small bumblebee goby fish with black and yellow stripes rests on white rocks in an aquarium.

Gobies

  • Bumble Bee
  • Desert
  • Dragon
  • Empire Gudgeon
  • Glass
  • Knight
  • Mudskippers
  • Peacock Gudgeon
  • Rhino
  • Sleeper
  • Stiphodon/Neon Blue
  • Violet
Two orange and white goldfish swim gracefully in clear water against a deep blue background.

Goldfish/Koi

  • Bubble Eye
  • Butterfly Koi
  • Calico
  • Celestial Eye
  • Comet
  • Fantail
  • Koi
  • Lionhead
  • Ogon Koi
  • Oranda
  • Panda
  • Pearlscale
  • Ranchu
  • Ryukin
  • Sarasa
  • Shubunkin
A colorful freshwater fish with orange and blue vertical stripes swims near shells on a sandy aquarium floor.

Gouramis

  • Blood
  • Blue
  • Croaking
  • Dwarf
  • Gold
  • Honey
  • Kissing
  • Lavender
  • Moonlight
  • Opaline
  • Paradise
  • Pearl
  • Platinum
  • Powder Blue
  • Snakeskin
  • Thicklip
A guppy fish with a shimmering silver body and large, vibrant orange and black patterned tail, swimming against a solid black background.

Guppies

  • Black and Gold
  • Blonde
  • Butterfly
  • Cobra
  • Cobra Koi
  • Elephant Ear
  • Endlers
  • Fancy
  • Flamingo
  • Galaxy Medusa
  • German Yellow
  • Jet Black
  • Koi Red
  • Laser Beam
A yellow guppy fish with a long, blue-tinted tail swims against a solid black background, making it a striking choice for any freshwater aquarium.

Guppies

  • Luminous
  • Lyretail
  • Mosaic
  • Moscow
  • Pink Tux
  • Platinum
  • Purple
  • Ribbon
  • Santa Claus
  • Silver
  • Sunset
  • Tequila Sunrise
  • Turquoise
  • Yellow Tux
A colorful fish with red spots and yellow fins swims in an aquarium with green plants and a sandy bottom.

Killifish

  • Daisy Ricefish
  • Gardneri
  • Golden Wonder
  • Lamp Blue Eye
  • Nothos
  • Panchax Blue
  • Platinum Ricefish
  • Tanganyikan
A dark, elongated knifefish with a distinct white ring near its tail swims in an aquarium, surrounded by orange and striped fish.

Knifefish

  • African
  • Black Ghost
  • Brown Ghost
  • Clown
  • Ossa
  • Pom Pom
  • Tiger Transparent
A small, orange and gold fish with a red tail swims in clear water with two blurred fish in the background against a dark, speckled backdrop.

Minnows

  • Golden
  • Rainbow Dace
  • Rosy Red
  • White Cloud
  • Vietnamese
A close-up of a black and white speckled fish swimming underwater with a blurred, light-colored background.

Mollies

  • 24 Karat
  • Balloon body
  • Black
  • Butterfly
  • Calico
  • Copper
  • Creamsicle
  • Dalmation
  • Gold Dust
  • Lyretail
  • Marble
  • Neon/Electric Blue
  • Platinum
  • Sailfin
  • Silver
  • Sphenops Gold
  • White
  • Yucatan
A close-up of a black and white fish with a spotted pattern swimming in water, with green plants blurred in the background.

Oddballs

  • African Butterfly
  • African Pike
  • Anableps
  • Anostomus
  • Archer Fish
  • Arowana/Jardini Arowana
  • Baby Whale
  • Barilius Trout
  • Barracuda
  • Chalceus
  • Ctenopoma
  • Datnoid
  • Elephant Nose
  • Flagtail Prochilodus
  • Florida Flag Fish
A close-up of a blue-black freshwater fish with vertical white stripes swimming underwater. The fish has large fins and lips, and the background is blurry, showing rocks and water.

Oddballs

  • Flounder/Sole
  • Glass Fish/Humphead
  • Goodeids
  • Headstander
  • Hingemouth
  • Leaf Fish
  • Leporinus
  • Lungfish
  • Mono
  • Payara/Vampire Tetra
  • Pipe Fish
  • Ropefish
  • Scat
  • Wasp Fish
  • Wolf Fish
A close-up of a single piranha swimming underwater. The fish has a silver body with red coloring on its lower half and a slightly open mouth, set against a dark, blurry background.

Piranhas

  • Black Diamond
  • Manueli
  • Red Belly
  • Red Eye
  • Yellow Belly
A close-up of a green spotted pufferfish swimming underwater. Its body is yellow-green with black spots, and it has a round shape and large, yellow-rimmed eyes. The background is blurry and aquatic.

Puffers

  • Amazon
  • Avacado/Bronze
  • Dragon
  • Fahaka
  • Figure Eight
  • Green Spotted
  • Hairy
  • Mbu
  • Miurus/Congo
  • Pea/Dwarf
A close-up of a colorful platy fish swimming in an aquarium with green aquatic plants in the background. The fish has a yellow body with red, blue, and orange markings on its fins and body.

Platies

  • Apple
  • Balloon
  • Black
  • Blue
  • Bumblebee
  • Coral Red
  • Dawn
  • Gold
  • Marigold
  • Mickey Mouse
  • Panda
  • Peppermint
  • Rainbow
  • Red Tiger
  • Red Tux
  • Red Wag
  • Spade Tail
  • Varatus Sunset
  • Variatus Blue/Black Neon
A yellow-tipped, dark brown fish with white spots rests on light gravel in an aquarium, with a blurred green background.

Plecostomus

  • Alenquer Tiger L397
  • Ancistrus: Albino, Calico, Green Dragon,
  • Angelicus L136B
  • Bello Monte L236
  • Blue Phantom L128
  • Bulldog
  • Chocolate
  • Chubby
  • Clown
  • Common
  • Gold Nugget L018, L081
  • Goldy L014
  • Green Mango L047
  • Green Phantom L200
  • Hypostomus
  • Lemondrop, Longfin, Pineapple, Snow White, Super Red
A small, striped freshwater fish with black and yellow bands rests on sandy aquarium gravel, its reflection visible on the glass beside it.

Plecostomus

  • Marble Sailfin
  • Medusa L034
  • Ocelot L174
  • Orange seam L076
  • Para L075
  • Peckolita L015
  • Peppermint L031
  • Polka Dot L020
  • Queen Arabesque L260
  • Royal L027, L190, L191, L330
  • Rubberlip, Rubbernose L146
  • Sabaji L124
  • Slate L238
  • Spotted Medusa L255
  • Sternella L114
  • Sultan L264
  • Thresher L011
  • Tiger L002
  • Vampire/Galaxy L240
  • Violet Bruno L137
  • Zebra
A bichir fish with dark, patterned scales and spiky dorsal fins rests on white gravel in an aquarium with a large brown rock in the background.

Polypterus/Bichir

  • Albino
  • Delhezi
  • Endlicheri
  • Ornatus
  • Platinum
  • Senegalus
  • Teugelsi
A small, colorful fish with a red tail and shimmering blue body swims in a lush, green aquarium with plants in the background.

Rainbows

  • Affinis/Pagwi
  • Antinyo Lake
  • Australian
  • Aves Creek
  • Bleheri
  • Boesemani
  • Celebes
  • Dorityi
  • Fasin Creek
  • Goyder River
  • Green Emerald
  • Kali Tawa
  • Kamaka Ice Blue
  • Kiunga
  • Madagascar
  • Millenium
  • Neon Dwarf/Praecox
  • New Guinea
  • Ornate
  • Parkinsoni
  • Parva
  • Picta
  • Red Laser
  • Sentani
  • Skull Creek
  • Susi Creek
  • Turquoise
  • Upper Tor
  • Wapogo
  • Werneri
A small, colorful fish with a transparent tail and orange and black markings swims in clear water against a blurred light background.

Rasboras

  • Boraras Maculatus
  • Brilliant
  • Chili
  • Emerald
  • Espei
  • Galaxy
  • Glowlight
  • Harlequin
  • Hengeli
  • Hetermorpha Black
  • Kubotai
  • Neon Red
  • Pork Chop
  • Purple
  • Red Stripe
  • Rummynose
  • Scissortail
A silver freshwater fish with a pointed head and large eyes swims in a clear aquarium, with colorful plants and decorations blurred in the background.

Sharks

  • Albino
  • Bala
  • Blackfin
  • Ghost
  • Rainbow
  • Redtail
  • Roseline
A close-up of a translucent shrimp with speckled markings standing on dark, rocky substrate, with green aquatic plants blurred in the background.

Shrimp

  • Algae Eating
  • Amano
  • Bamboo/Flower/Mountain
  • Bee
  • Black Rose
  • Bloody Mary
  • Blue Dream, Diamond, Jelly
  • Cherry Red
  • Crystal Red, Blue, Black
  • Green Jade, Hulk
  • King Kong
  • Orange Sunkist, Pumpkin
  • Rili Black, Blue, Orange, Red
  • Snowball
  • Tangerine
  • Yellow Fire, Blaze
Silver fish with a round, flat body, orange-tipped fins, and a large eye swimming in an aquarium with other similar fish and a sandy bottom.

Silver Dollars

  • Assassin
  • Giant Pagoda
  • Hercules
  • Lava
  • Mystery: Albino, Blue, Gold, Ivory, Jade, Magenta, Purple
  • Olive Nerite
  • Pumpkin Nerite
  • Rabbit
  • Ramshorn
  • Red Racer
  • Spikey Nerite
  • Tiger Nerite
  • Trapdoor
  • White Wizard
  • Zebra Nerite
A spotted catfish with long whiskers swims above white gravel, displaying large dark spots on a light body and a tall dorsal fin, against a brown background.

Synodontis Catfish

  • Angelicus/Polka Dot
  • Decorus
  • Eupterus
  • Featherfin
  • Multipunctatus/Cuckoo
  • Petricola/Dwarf
  • Upside Down
A small silver fish with a bright red head and red eyes swims in green water. Its tail fin has black and white bands.

Tetras

  • Alestes
  • Argenteus
  • Black Neon
  • Black Phantom
  • Black Skirt/White Skirt
  • Bleeding Heart
  • Blind Cave
  • Bloodfin
  • Blue
  • Blueberry/Wadai
  • Buenos Aires
  • Candycane
  • Cardinal
  • Columbian
  • Congo
Two small silver freshwater fish swim among green aquatic plants and rocks in a brightly lit freshwater aquarium.

Tetras

  • Costae
  • Ember
  • Emperor
  • Glass
  • Glo
  • Glowlight
  • Green Fire
  • Green Neon
  • Hatchet/Marble Hatchet
  • HY511
  • Kerri
  • Kitty
  • Lemon
  • Moenkhausia Heikoi
  • Mzuel/Muzel Red Cherry
A small, bright purple freshwater fish with translucent fins swims near green aquatic plants in an aquarium, with a blurry background.

Tetras

  • Mzuel/Muzel Red Cherry
  • Neon
  • Pencil: Beckford’s, Marginatus, Red
  • Pink Lemonade
  • Pristella
  • Rainbow
  • Red Eye
  • Red Minor
  • Rosy Whitefin
  • Rummy Nose
  • Sailfin
  • Serpae Longfin
  • Silver Tip
  • Three Spot
  • Von Rio
  • X-Ray

Healthy Fish Start With the Right Sources

Rest assured, we work with trusted breeders and suppliers when sourcing the freshwater fish we sell. Our team also pays careful attention to the health, behavior, and personalities of the animals we sell.

Choosing a fish doesn’t just involve finding one that looks pretty. Different species have different requirements when it comes to water conditions, tank size, diet, environment, and tankmates. Our staff can tell you about the fish you’re considering and help you determine whether it belongs in your aquarium.

Not Just Fish: Build Your Entire Freshwater Aquarium Here

A beautiful, healthy freshwater aquarium starts long before you add in the fish. We carry everything you need to build, customize, and maintain your freshwater setup, including:

  • Freshwater aquariums
  • Filters and filtration supplies
  • Heaters and lighting
  • Gravel and substrate
  • Rock and natural wood
  • Live plants
  • Décor and hiding places
  • Fish food and live feeders
  • Water conditioners and maintenance supplies
  • Aquarium water

We sell prepared aquarium water, so you can get the water you need along with your fish and supplies rather than having to manage everything yourself at home.

Need Help With Aquascaping? Just Ask

Aquascaping makes your aquarium look impressive, to be sure. But it also ensures your fresh fish are living their best lives. Let us advise you on the placement of rocks, wood, plants, caves, and other features so your fish have places to hide, establish territories, and explore freely.

Not sure where to start? We’ll help you design your aquarium and aquascape at no additional charge when you shop with us. We’ll walk you through tank size, substrate, rock and wood placement, live plants, hiding areas, equipment, and fish selection so everything comes together nicely.

We’ll Even Bring the Aquarium to You

Want a freshwater aquarium without hassling with the entire setup yourself?

Moby Dick Pet Store offers professional in-home aquarium setup and installation. Not only can we help you choose the best location and equipment, we can deliver and set up your aquarium. Plus, we offer ongoing aquarium services, including cleaning and maintenance, aquarium moves, and water delivery.

Why Are Aquariums So Popular in Homes and Businesses?

There’s a reason you frequently see aquariums in doctors’ offices, dental offices, nursing homes, waiting rooms, restaurants, and other public spaces. It can be calming and hypnotic to watch colorful fish glide through the water, bringing a peaceful focal point to an otherwise chaotic environment.

Your home aquarium can offer:

  • A relaxing, soothing atmosphere
  • A beautiful visual focal point
  • Entertainment
  • An engaging hobby
  • An educational opportunity to learn about aquatic life and responsible animal care
  • A living feature that constantly changes

More than just another piece of home décor, an aquarium is a miniature ecosystem, and building and maintaining one can become just as rewarding as watching it.

More Than 40 Years of Freshwater Experience

Moby Dick Pet Store has been independently owned and serving local hobbyists for more than 40 years, with only two owners during that time.

Our employees are hobbyists themselves. They’re patient and knowledgeable, and genuinely want to educate customers. If we don’t immediately know the answer to a question, we’ll do the research and let you know.

We also get to know the animals in our care. We aren’t here just to sell you a fish, we’re here to help match that fish with an appropriate home where it can thrive.

Can’t Find the Freshwater Fish You’re Looking For?

Our inventory changes regularly, which is part of what makes visiting Moby Dick Pet Store so fun. We consistently bring in interesting freshwater fish, and you never know what you might find here.

If you don’t see a particular species or variety here, just ask us. We can often special order fish and other aquarium products through our trusted network of suppliers.

At the end of the day, it’s important to remember that owning fish should be a hobby, not a hassle. We take the guesswork out of every step so you can just have fun and enjoy your aquarium!

Your Freshwater Aquarium Starts at Moby Dick Pet Store

Stop in today to explore our freshwater fish, tanks, plants, rock, wood, décor, food, water, and aquarium supplies, or give us a call at (248) 673-2520.

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