Peaceful community fish
104 species are rated peaceful temperament.
Every fish here lacks any aggressive, semi-aggressive, or predatory flag in its data. That is one screen out of about five. Wrong volume, wrong pH band, or a half-stocked schooling group will still make two "peaceful" species hide from each other or stop eating. Pair-check anything you actually want to put in the same glass.
"Peaceful" is the temperament line on the profile. It is not the only line on the profile. Two peaceful fish from different continents will still struggle in the same water chemistry, and two peaceful fish from the same continent in a too-small tank will still hassle each other for territory. Read the temperament paragraph, the water section, and the group rules before you pair anything from this list.
Every row is a real profile in the live library; filters are field-driven, not hand-curated blurbs.
Fish on this list
- Adolfoi cory
peaceful · intermediate · min 80L
- African freshwater butterflyfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 150L
- Amano Shrimp
peaceful · beginner · min 40L
- Assassin Snail
peaceful · beginner · min 30L
- Bala / silver shark
peaceful · intermediate · min 500L
- Bamboo Shrimp
peaceful · intermediate · min 80L
- Beckford Pencilfish
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Black Neon Tetra
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Black phantom tetra
peaceful · beginner · min 80L
- Black ruby barb
peaceful · intermediate · min 100L
- Bloodfin tetra
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Blue Dream Shrimp
peaceful · beginner · min 20L
- Boesemani Rainbowfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 150L
- Bolivian Ram
peaceful · intermediate · min 110L
- Bristlenose Pleco
peaceful · beginner · min 80L
- Bronze corydoras
peaceful · beginner · min 100L
- Brown / hockey-stick pencilfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 100L
- Cardinal Tetra
peaceful · intermediate · min 60L
- Celebes Rainbowfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 80L
- Celestial Pearl Danio
peaceful · intermediate · min 30L
- Checkerboard cichlid
peaceful · intermediate · min 100L
- Cherry Barb
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Cherry Shrimp
peaceful · beginner · min 20L
- Chili Rasbora
peaceful · intermediate · min 20L
- Chocolate gourami
peaceful · advanced · min 80L
- Clown Killifish
peaceful · intermediate · min 20L
- Clown Loach
peaceful · intermediate · min 400L
- Clown Pleco
peaceful · intermediate · min 110L
- Columbian Tetra
peaceful · beginner · min 80L
- Common Pleco
peaceful · intermediate · min 600L
- Congo Tetra
peaceful · intermediate · min 180L
- Corydoras Catfish
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Croaking gourami
peaceful · intermediate · min 80L
- Cuckoo / petricola catfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 200L
- Denison's / red-line torpedo barb
peaceful · intermediate · min 250L
- Denisons Barb
peaceful · intermediate · min 250L
- Diamond Tetra
peaceful · intermediate · min 120L
- Discus
peaceful · advanced · min 200L
- Dojo / weather loach
peaceful · intermediate · min 150L
- Dwarf Gourami
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Dwarf Neon Rainbowfish
peaceful · beginner · min 100L
- Dwarf pencilfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 60L
- Ember Tetra
peaceful · beginner · min 45L
- Emerald catfish (Brochis)
peaceful · beginner · min 120L
- Endler's Livebearer
peaceful · beginner · min 40L
- German Blue Ram
peaceful · intermediate · min 80L
- Giant danio
peaceful · intermediate · min 200L
- Glass Catfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 80L
- Glowlight Tetra
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Gold / Chinese barb
peaceful · beginner · min 120L
- Golden / Beckford's pencilfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 80L
- Golden dwarf cichlid (Nannacara)
peaceful · intermediate · min 50L
- Green neon tetra
peaceful · intermediate · min 60L
- Guppy
peaceful · beginner · min 40L
- Harlequin Rasbora
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Hillstream Loach
peaceful · advanced · min 100L
- Honey Gourami
peaceful · beginner · min 40L
- Julii Corydoras
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Keyhole cichlid
peaceful · intermediate · min 200L
- Kuhli Loach
peaceful · beginner · min 70L
- Lambchop / Espei rasbora
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Lemon Tetra
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Malaysian Trumpet Snail
peaceful · beginner · min 20L
- Marbled Hatchetfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 60L
- Molly
peaceful · beginner · min 80L
- Moonlight gourami
peaceful · intermediate · min 180L
- Mystery Snail
peaceful · beginner · min 40L
- Neon Tetra
peaceful · beginner · min 40L
- Nerite Snail
peaceful · beginner · min 20L
- Odessa Barb
peaceful · beginner · min 120L
- Otocinclus
peaceful · intermediate · min 60L
- Panda Corydoras
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Pearl Danio
peaceful · beginner · min 80L
- Pearl Gourami
peaceful · beginner · min 100L
- Penguin tetra
peaceful · beginner · min 80L
- Peppered Corydoras
peaceful · beginner · min 80L
- Pictus catfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 250L
- Platy
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Pygmy Corydoras
peaceful · beginner · min 30L
- Rainbow cichlid
peaceful · intermediate · min 200L
- Ropefish / reed fish
peaceful · advanced · min 200L
- Rosy Barb
peaceful · beginner · min 180L
- Rosy Tetra
peaceful · beginner · min 80L
- Royal pleco
peaceful · advanced · min 500L
- Rummy Nose Tetra
peaceful · intermediate · min 80L
- Sailfin Molly
peaceful · beginner · min 120L
- Salt and pepper cory / dwarf cory
peaceful · intermediate · min 60L
- Scissortail Rasbora
peaceful · beginner · min 150L
- Siamese Algae Eater
peaceful · beginner · min 100L
- Silver dollar
peaceful · intermediate · min 300L
- Silver Tip Tetra
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Sparkling Gourami
peaceful · intermediate · min 40L
- Splash tetra
peaceful · advanced · min 80L
- Sterba's Corydoras
peaceful · intermediate · min 100L
- Threadfin rainbowfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 60L
- Ticto / twospot barb
peaceful · beginner · min 100L
- Tinfoil barb
peaceful · intermediate · min 500L
- Turquoise / Lake Kutubu rainbowfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 200L
- Twig / whiptail catfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 150L
- Upside-down Catfish
peaceful · intermediate · min 100L
- White Cloud Mountain Minnow
peaceful · beginner · min 40L
- X-ray tetra
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Zebra Danio
peaceful · beginner · min 60L
- Zebra Loach
peaceful · intermediate · min 120L
Next steps
Other guides
- Beginner-friendly freshwater fish
- Fin-nipping fish
- Aggressive & semi-aggressive fish
- Fish that may eat smaller tank mates
- Fish that grow too big for small tanks
- Schooling & group fish
- Fish for smaller aquariums (on file)
- Often shrimp-tolerant (heuristic, conservative)
- Fish that are a poor first choice for beginners