Best peaceful yellow fish?

[Mint]

I already have it: there’s Glowlight tetras in the stocking. Honestly, it’s really fine. The mystery snails and shrimp are good, and this frees me some fish space up. I think I might go with a apistogramma species, since they come in some yellows. Do a all-male or all-female group of them. Or maybe I’ll do something like a diamond tetra where it’s shiny and looks kind of yellow in the right light.

 

[Fishies4Ever]

I already have it: there’s Glowlight tetras in the stocking. Honestly, it’s really fine. The mystery snails and shrimp are good, and this frees me some fish space up. I think I might go with a apistogramma species, since they come in some yellows. Do a all-male or all-female group of them. Or maybe I’ll do something like a diamond tetra where it’s shiny and looks kind of yellow in the right light.

Sounds like a great idea. The more space for fish the better! Another idea would be glow light tetras.

 

[GaryE]

Increasingly, given the choices, it seems ditching the Betta makes sense. Or getting a Cambodian Betta...so it's the yellow fish and you can just get some nice tetras.

Blue eyed Congos are auriantacus, and they are wonderfull, delicate (did I say delicate? I meant delicate) rarities. A fishfarm Betta would kill them with the diseases it carries.

 

[Mint]

…yeah, I think I’ll just give up and build a betta tank into the stand for my betta needs. Can you elaborate on what you mean by a Cambodian betta, however?

I actually have seen the blue-eyed Congo tetras for sale at a really big fish store in Dayton. They were awesome. At the time I thought they were some type of cichlid, though.

 

[Mint]

And on a side note, holy crap are they expensive. 30 bucks for a fish. Like…maybe try to get a male and female and breed them to keep costs down?

I think I’ll just take honey gouramis as my yellow fish. They’re pretty, yellow, and do the cute thing with their little “hand” whiskers.

 

[Essjay]

Cambodian is the term for a specific colour and pattern. Often seen with a white or pale pink body with dark red fins, though there are other colours as well.

 

[GaryE]

My favourite Cambodian Betta was a yellow. It's a very old fancy form, and as @Essjay has noted, the name which used to stand for a yellow Betta only has been hijacked, as usual.
The red fin or pink forms would have had a different name when yellow Cambodians were developed probably 50 plus years ago, but marketing names have no permanence. They change with the wind.

 

[Mint]

And now, for some arcane reason, the yellow bettas are called non-red…gah, names are ridiculous. I’ve seen a billion pet stores calling their metallic bettas “Yellow dragons” or something stupid like that. It seems common to slap a fancy name on a regular betta to get people to buy it.