Fish so pretty it almost makes you cry tears of joy

[TwoTankAmin]

I kept Altums for a number of years. I no longer do so as I am downsizing and so I sold them to a member of my club who already kapt some. One of the reasons I had to have Altums was the vid below.

 

[GaryE]

I had altums, and to me, they represented grace and stately beauty.

"Beauty will be convulsive or it will not be at all" was the old surrealist Andre Breton's interesting definition, and that makes me think about absolute beauties who combine movement and colour to amaze us. Iriatherina werneri, the threadfin rainbow is up there. A group of 5 or 6 Chromaphyosemion biteniatum circling each other and dancing off without biting each other is one of nature's great shows that fits in an aquarium.

We have dancing beauty, sitting there and staring back beauty, stately grace, impossible colour intensity (freshwater killies and many marine fish), "man" made beauty like Betta splendens linebreds - so much. I have keot little Enteromius jae whose redness almost hurts to look at, and seemingly electric blue Celebes rainbows.

I don't like to be smacked in the face by anything, including beauty. I like realizing how good something is after a few glances. That's why I would never include fish like linebred Discus on my list of beauties. I find the pigeon blood and similar fish outright ugly, though if you have one, I'll pretend to be impressed if you are.

 

[emeraldking]

Well, to me the altums remain the ultimate angels there are... Wild caught ones are hard to get overhere. And if they are present, the price will be sky high... So, if we want to get some altums, it will be offspring of a number of generations of those wild caughts.

 

[Uberhoust]

Always like altums, but don't like to keep my fish tanks above 75f because when I go higher it is too hard to keep the house cool in the summer.

 

[Ceez]

Prettiest fish to ever live..

I have kids....sue me