Observing the underwater inhabitants calms the nerves, and if your aquarium is inhabited by the most beautiful fish, this suits your aesthetic taste, arouses a sense of pride and decorates the room.
The most beautiful aquarium fish are not necessarily the most demanding to keep. Breeds such as guppies and cockerels are easy to handle even for novice aquarists.
Fish for beginners
Guppies are one of the most common and unpretentious fish. A small aquarium with room temperature water can hold several. Guppies feed on both dry and live food. To enhance the color intensity, special ready-made feeds are sold. Guppy females are not particularly attractive, but males are the pride of the breed. Females are larger, have a gray body and a slightly colored spotted tail of a rounded shape. In males, the color begins from the gill zone, more often monochromatic, sometimes the body of different colors turns into a variegated large tail. The most beautiful species are the fan-tailed guppies. Their caudal fin is wide, swinging in the water like a fan. The color gamut is huge: from bright orange to dark blue. The tail can be with a soft transition from one color to another, or black or colored spots of different shapes stand out against a bright background. Guppies are quite peaceful, they often find themselves victims of attacks by active fish, which is why their beautiful tails suffer.
The cockerel is another undemanding, but very beautiful breed of fish. It belongs to the labyrinth species. They do not need additional lighting, heating or aeration. One fish can live comfortably in 3 liters of water, it is unpretentious in food. The cockerel is considered a fighting fish because males are always aggressive towards each other. Males are brightly colored, often in one tone, sometimes radially turning into lighter or darker. The colors of the cockerels are varied, they are red, blue, white, yellow. Very beautiful "veil cockerel". This species has slender, wide dorsal and caudal fins.
According to Feng Shui, for goldfish to become talismans, there must be exactly seven of them in the aquarium.
Fish for experienced owners
One of the most beautiful and famous inhabitants of home and public aquariums is the goldfish. This representative of the carp family appeared thanks to the painstaking selection of Chinese and Japanese masters of the 7th century BC. The goldfish became a hero of fairy tales and a symbol of good luck and wealth in the art of Feng Shui. Fish require very large aquariums, because they themselves are quite large - up to 30 cm. Each fish needs 50 liters of water, temperature 20-25 ° C, aeration, filter. Goldfish are friendly, slow and very beautiful. There are golden, red, black, milky white and pearl goldfish. Plain colors are more common, but there are also spotted ones. In the veil-tail species, the caudal fin is very impressive, which is 5-6 times longer than the body. It is translucent and flutters like the thinnest gauze fabric.
Discus are very finicky and unusually beautiful in their variety of bright colors. They belong to the cichlid family and have a round flat body, up to 20 cm in size. Their colors are of all colors of the rainbow, the brightest are lemon yellow, sky blue, bright orange, white with an orange pattern.
In case of a bad mood and feeling of health, the discus color may change. In a sick fish, stripes disappear, in fright it turns brown, and bright stripes appear from excitement.
Discus live at a very high temperature for other fish - 28-30 ° C, the water must be constantly renewed and very clean.
