What Are The Most Beautiful/attractive Types Of Fish In Your Opinion?

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Just a curiosity thread, but what are the most beautiful or attractive types of fish out there in the hobby in your honest and current opinion? I'm quite undecided on this at the moment when it comes to my personal tastes and such, so i am curious to see other people's opinions on this thread.
The fish don't need to be nesarsarily tropical or freshwater, as long as they are actually kept and sold in the general fishkeeping hobby (so no great white sharks or deep ocean fish or any fish like that please) . Or is there a particular fish that you find very beautiful but a lot depends on the individual specimens colouring/patterning/fin or tail types etc (like guppys.goldfish or bettas for example etc )?

 

[dthoffsett]

Any mbuna. They have the beautiful colors of saltwater fish without the hassle, and the best personalities.

 

[geo7x]

personally aesthetically i like my fish to look as natural as possible, im not really keen on fish with extreme inbred features, dont like hybrids either, i like to have fishas they would look in the wild my only exception is my longfin cories but somehow i really like them, i suppose its because they arent too extreme.

But i like fish with bags of character, thats why the favourite fish i own is my channa gachua snakehead

 

[dwarfgourami]

Can't think of one singe group, but these species are the most beautiful I know:

moustached danios- I really think these are no 1!

giant danios

phallichthys tico- on a good day, with the right light, and unstressed

pearl gouramis

sparkling gouramis

blue gouramis

cochu's tetra- for colour though not for body shape

corydoras adolfoi

pretty well any loricariid!

 

[fishboy619]

i love discus, all discus in my eyes are beautiful, so are angels.
but my personaly favourite must be,staying true, betta.
all colors, all finnage, all bettas.

 

[fozziebear]

cardinals are amazing, their colours are so defined and bright.

 

[Griz]

Apistogramma!

Such a variety of colours, patterns and fin shapes in that group, it's hard to pick a favorite.

 

[ITHURTZ]

Lake Malawi fish. (for freshwater)

 

[cooky]

I only have the 2 types german blue rams x4 and 2x peppered corys and i love them both

 

[CFC]

Arowanas, although catfish are my favourites for sheer gracefull beauty you cant beat the looks of a large scale perfect arowana.

 

[dwarfgourami]

ooo, I forgot marine: Green chromis. If ever anything could induce me to go salt, it would be these little beauties.

 

[lordotterby]

Any kinds of Plecs, Corydoras and Catfish, I just love everything about them

 

[YoungFishBreeder]

The Most beautiful fish is one that is displaying its full breeding colours, Or showing off to another fish.

 

[Heather.]

I love my angel fish..But I like alot of others too..

 

[mommyof2bettas]

yellow, butterfly, mustard gas bettas. Show guppies---> http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=183436
and the royal gramma