Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia, comprising more than thirteen thousand separate islands, including Java, New Guinea, Sumatra and Sulawesi. Naturally, these have a wide variety of fish life, from great rivers (the longest, the Kapuas is over 700 miles long), fast moving streams (rainbowfish), to vegetation choked marshes (anabantids). Much of the natural habitat is under threat due to deforestation for the palm oil industry. Some of the regularly seen Indonesian aquarium species are listed below.
Balantiocheilos melanopterus Silver shark
Betta brownorum Browns anabantid
Betta imbellis
Carinotetraodon irrubesco Red-tailed puffer
Chilatherina bleheri Bleher's rainbowfish
Dermogenys pusillus Half-beak
Melanotaenia boesemani Boesemans rainbow fish
Melanotaenia praecox Dwarf neon rainbowfish
Oryzias latipes Rice fish
Puntius oligolepis Checker barb
Puntius tetrazona Tiger Barb
Rasbora maculata Dwarf Rasbora
Rasbora pauciperforata Red-line Rasbora
Scleropages formosus Golden Arowana
Stigmatogobius sadanunidio Knight goby
Telmatherina ladigesi Celebes rainbowfish
Trichogaster leeri Pearl gourami
Trichogaster trichopterus Blue gourami
Trichopsis vittata Croaking gourami
Give your fish a treat! Flaked fish foods are excellent nutritionally, but most fish really enjoy tucking into live, or frozen live foods. Insect larvae such as bloodworms can be collected in summertime from your water barrel, but it is also very worthwhile to attempt to culture Daphnia or white worms for a free food source absolutely relished by aquarium fish. Frozen bloodworm are almost as good and are widely available, though freeze dried live foods tend not to go down as well. See more on feeding fish
