Killifish

Native
Found in parts of North and South America, Africa, Southern Europe and Asia.

Description
This egg-laying tooth-carps or killifish fish belongs to a family called Cyprinodontidae. They have mouths, which are turned upwards to enable surface feeding, and armed with teeth. They are keen predators of smaller species but are not dangerous to most aquarium fishes as Killifishes themselves are very small. Killifishes, though not very common in the aquarium hobby in India, are an extremely interesting group of aquarium fishes as they have brilliant colours-especially the males-are very hardy, need little space and aquarium equipment to maintain them and feed well in aquariums.