Overlooked fish

[Gamegurl564]

I'm wondering what fish people think are either overlooked or underrated.

In my opinion glass catfish (Kryptopterus vitreolus) are an incredibly overlooked fish. I think it's because they seem quite colourless and boring in fish stores. They however are a incredible nocturnal fish, being really quite active and interesting to watch.

They used to be super popular in the early 70's
We went through a lot of them at the very first pet shop I worked in.

 

[fishorama]

I like a lot of ordinary rasboras, Harleys, espei, red tailed boraras, some of the dwarfs, & now "blue line" (R. sarawakensis) I have now thanks to Cass & her pics.
Classic CA cichlids will always be dear to me but there are many more species in each genus now. Blue acaras, firemouths come to mind, African kribensis too.
Several old tetra species are great but in iffy health with big farming. Cardinals, neons, rummy noses, black neons...but not serpae, I'll never like high body red similar species even though I "know" they're not all obnoxious fin nippers, but it's hard to get over bad experiences sometimes.

I'm a loach nut & will always love little sidthimunkis. I know they're hormone bred now but we had 2 before they were red listed. It was long time before we saw them again. I literally ran across a LFS when I thought I saw them from 30+ feet away. No, they were the similar nigrolineata. But I asked & they did sometimes get sids!! Pangio "kuhlis" of several species are also wonderful; I'm partial to striped. I had semicincta, they were great!

 

[GaryE]

Mollies.

I don't mean the common and very popular hybrids in stores. Wild species, unwreckd by linebreeders, can be gems. Hard to get, but wonderful fish with complex colours. The same can be said for swordtails - largely ruined in the trade, but very cool if you can find wild type breeders for the many many species.

Aphyosemion and Epiplatys killies. Our local club has become quite interested by them since I started bringing them to auction.