I've never seen a wild form fish I didn't like. If I put on my critical goggles and you show me a man made fish, there's usually something 'off' in them that I react to. Oversized fins, things like that. If I know it's a hybrid, linebred or petrie dish fish, then prejudice kicks in and I can surely find reasons not to like it. But when a new variation or species of fish comes in from the natural world around us, I like it. I may never want to keep it, or I may find it doesn't fit with my interests, but it's still cool.
The new pencils? I find huge chunks of colour less interesting than patterns, but I like red and blue on fish. They sure have red. I just found (I think) my $8 cad mortenthaleri, and that's a splash of red fish. I'd rather have found an old school gold marginatum, as the complexity of their markings is nice. But I like all the 'new' red pencils, even if when I was a teacher I never used a red pencil (green makes a piece of homework look like a garden), and if I could afford the new ones, I'd go for them all.
I hope we don't get what's happened because of many linebred fish appealing to the market, and have the more subtle fish vanish from the trade. Around here, marginatum is rare to gone from the hobby, and only beckfordi and occasionally trifasciata and eques show up once in a blue moon. I'd hate the see the 'smack you in the face with their colour' red pencils replace them entirely in the trade, as it is a very fickle market.
