what do you think is the prettiest, most colorful, most interesting fish???

I do not have my own picture, but I got a pair of betta imbellis which were offspring of the best in class winner from an IBC event. So the picture below is not of my fish nor my picture.

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B. imbellus would definitely be in my top five most beautiful fish. Good choice.
 
You guys have so many beautiful fish!!

My choices for fish I've kept for beauty include kribensis pulcher, killie a. gardeneri & Denisonii barbs, but clown loaches win for pretty & personality (fishonality?).

Cichlids can be interactive & fun, but clowns, the last time I kept them, were so much more!! I wasn't just the food goddess, I was the blue computer screen of fascination. They'd fight a bit to be next to me in the "best" closest cave. I think we shared an intense relationship because their tank was next to my computer & we interacted for hours each day. They'd chew plants with a dirty loach look if I didn't feed veggies often enough. Spoiled beyond belief! We all knew it & loved it!

I cried when I had to rehome them before our last coast to coast move. I tried to think of a way to move them with us, but we were homeless for a month. Just not a realistic option 😭 By far the most interesting fish I've kept in 40+ years & we'd kept clown loaches before, these were extra special!!!
 
as you may know I still have to set up the 54 liter aquarium and I am thinking about bigger future aquariums.
The fish that I love for a mix of aesthetics/character are:
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Discus
Betta
Macropodus opercularis
Macropodus spechti
Ramirezi
Barbus tetrazona
Barbus tetrazona green
Denisonii barbs
clown loaches
Colisa liala
some corydoras
almost all loricariids
many African cichlids like Aulonocara marmelade
all the very colorful killifish (for example gardneri gold, Aphyosemion australe hjersseni, Aphyosemion Striatum, Nothobranchius rachovii, it blocks my life expectancy a lot)

Basically I realized that I tend to love very much fish with metallic reflections or with very complicated colors together or in alternative special shapes
 
I've always kind of wondered about this, what if anything they must think of us. They do seem to understand and accept confinement after a while. I'm sure this is somewhat difficult for wild caught fish; captive-bred fish don't know any different so I doubt they think about it. But what of these huge, moving shapes from another world that are a source of terror, food, and in the case of my angelfish, curiosity? Do they actually think about us, try to relate, try to understand what we are? Or do they just accept us an something that happens?

For most fish, I suspect the latter.
Did I mention I love these discussions?
 

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