Thread 5018032

what's the most aesthetic fish?

Goliath groupers, they look like how you think a giant fish would. Plus they can bark with their swim bladders which is kino as hell.

Archerfish.

lamprey

>>5018032 (OP)
herrings
simple, hydrodynamic and a evolutionary success

>>5018032 (OP)
Swordfish and Marlin.

>generic silvery fish shape
>world wide distribution
>aggressive predator, also common prey
>iconic sport fish both when small and large
>THE fishy tasting fish
My vote, the humble bluefish

do eels count, theyre pretty aesthetic

the humble 'dine

>>5018032 (OP)
For me it's the humble sunfish

:)

>>5018035
What dp they taste like? Seabass?

>>5018035
"Goliath Grouper" <---- found the fag. The real name is Jew Fish. The resemblance really is uncanny, isn't it?

Always thought these were pretty and cute

>>5018446
Heh, /pol/ has rotted your mind.

>>5018446
>comparing the noble GOLIATH grouper to a jew.
Fuck off david.

>>5018492
I remember when people would buy these back in the day knowing full well they were 100% going to die in about a week, because nobody had any idea how to feed them.

>>5018378
God didn't bother with this one, he just released the rough sketch.

A living sea serpent

>>5018492
BASED MANDARIN GOBY APPRECIATOR

I clean aquariums for a living and love to watch these guys. The way the move, their inquisitive nature, 11/10 fish. I prefer the target mandarins over the psychedelic ones though. The brown with subtle pops of blue and orange feels underrated.

Also my first choice, the longnose hawkfish. He is friend-shaped and also fun to watch for similar reasons. Plus they are very cute when they yawn.

>>5018526
Unfortunately still this way, can confirm as someone who works in a fish store. People would rather pay $150 for wild-caught and dose $50 bottles of copepods every week than pay double for a captive-bred mandarin raised on frozen mysis. Really baffles me how stupid people in the aquarium hobby are.

>>5018032 (OP)
Love these things, you can just throw them like darts and kill basically anything.

>>5018345
So that's where they harvest Green Stuff

>>5020166
saltfags are psychopaths its not about the animals or the chemistry its about who can spend the most money on living decorations

>>5020189
100% agree, everyone always wants salt too because "ooooh bright colors so exotic" but the nicest tanks I take care of are always planted freshwater (which is like 2 of the 45 clients I work for most of them just get AFC tanks with fugly plastic plants). Why can't people just appreciate subtle irridescents on tiny schooling fish?

The people with planted tanks also give a shit and know wtf they're talking about when I ask about their tanks. I haven't met a single saltfag who knew how to take care of the tank on their own or could tell me anything about a single living creature in their aquarium. Most of them aren't even aware that most of the fish-coral in their tank is wild-caught. Usually just skinwalkers with too much money and no patience.

Total saltfag annihilation! NOW!

>>5020203
I dont know man, I know a guy that has a tank just for seagrass, and it's pretty nice

>>5019050
God got pretty lazy with the fishes...

>>5020203
I feel as though there are way more shitty freshwater tanks than saltwater tanks. Think about how many kids get pet goldfish only for them to die in 2 months.
>BUT THAT DOESNT COUNT WE DONT CLAIM THEMMMM
Yeah and the 'good' saltwater tank owners probably don't claim the retards you've met. Why are you people so dead-set on shoving a wedge between communities?

>>5018032 (OP)
I nominate Finger mullet for most aesthetic bait fish

Does anyone have the guy talking about how beautiful the bass is?

>>5022144
He does that, but then he also goes crazy selling hundreds of skin cosmetics on some weird river fish.

man you all like some weird fish

>>5018032 (OP)
Puffers

For me, it’s the Northern Pike.

>>5022824
What the hell is that northern pike about to get eaten by???

>>5018345
>>5018347
I love EELS

>>5022814
>>5022815
I also love PUFFERS

>>5022144
Gonna send me watching AI music videos about sacabambaspis again, goddammit

>>5020203
Bullshit. The low barrier to entry for freshwater literally means that the vast majority of freshie tanks are horribly abusive. Even in non-shithole countries people still abuse the hell out of freshwater fish. It wouldn't surprise me if a majority of people that keep freshwater fish in the US have never even heard of water conditioner. And that number rises to like 99% outside of the West. And there's no incentive for them to ever learn because - whoops! another goldfish dead, good thing they only cost half a penny!
Meanwhile besides clownfish marine fish and corals aren't cheap, and even those are a lot more expensive than goldfish. And keeping coral alive requires more knowledge of water chemistry than what your average freshfag would ever have to know to succeed. You literally cannot afford to stay ignorant with marine. Of course there are some rich fucks who pay other people to basically run their tanks but they're a small minority and not representative.

>>5018032 (OP)
Slender sunfish

>>5022962
I think he's just equating "freshwater keepers" with people who have nice naturalistic planted tanks, which that is absolutely not a majority when you factor in the sheer amount of people keeping Bettas and Goldfish in abysmal conditions.

>>5018378
:O

idk but this channel is amazing
https://youtu.be/-yqe91evIgA
ending is 10/10

I think that rays are pretty sweet, especially when you see them moving. They're like stealth bombers
https://youtu.be/evd6NTD1wf4?si=G9bl0fhRvYhv09Ro

>>5018032 (OP)
Telescopefish, a rare deep-sea creature known for its eyes adapted for spotting bioluminescence and subvert their host nations.

Betta fish without question

>>5025200
>when you fail hard at the reincarnation roulette

>>5018343
this

why, the majestic sea horse of course!

>>5025200
Is this one of those times where they took a dead animal and puppeted it around in a tank for a documentary?

It doesn't get any more "shark" than this, peak performance right here. The whale shark also gets an honorable mention because I think they're neat

>>5025200
>>5025551
It’s a real image of a dead museum specimen but the animation is AI. When it turns the eyeballs sink backwards when they should be at the front

>>5018526
Why supply poached fish if captivity breeding is possible? Why not charge more for the poached fish?

>>5025200
>>5025574
Here's literally the ONLY footage I could find of a live telescopefish in the wild. Turns out they're not so much on crack (or AI slop) when in their natural habitat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJD-VaZ4A8

>>5018032 (OP)
Fishes are so cool

I like the sturgeon

>>5018049
What happens when you take a needle and poke it's clear forehead dome?

>>5022825
some kind of perch

>>5027322
I want to know if anybody captured and dissected these guys.

Test

>>5018032 (OP)
>what's the most aesthetic fish?
humans cats a close second

>>5027429
If they're like other transparent fish, the flesh becomes opaque after death.

>>5018032 (OP)
Megalodon

>>5025200
>aislop

>>5027322
It would be extremely painful

>>5028134
>>5025551
>>5025574
>>5025614
sad, i thought it was real but it's just AI slop

Arapaima

Majestic

>>5025200
filename
>jfish.webm
What's that mean?

West African Lungfish

>>5030633
i like his cute little back legs

>>5030635
They go from silly to majestic simply based on the posture of their fin at the given moment

It's the mighty tarpon

>>5030635
You should check out tripodfish

>>5030701
What's it eating?

>>5033150
Probably crab

>>5025601
>Why supply poached fish if captivity breeding is possible?
1) Existing supply chains. Businesses have existed for decades by capturing wild caught specimens and they neither have the expertise nor the equipment to breed these fish. They're not going to suddenly dump a business model for ethical reasons.
2) Efficiency. They are already out there capturing other fish that are not captive bred. They will capture lots of different types of fish in an area. They may have maximum limits as to how many of each specific fish they catch, but there is no guarantee they will catch specific fish each time. It's often luck of the draw and if they see something sellable, they're going to catch it even if they were there for something completely different.
3) Economics. Captive breeding is still expensive. The supply chain is so streamlined by now (especially since it's 3rd world) that it is way cheaper to capture a bunch of fish and ship them worldwide even if 50% or more die..
>Why not charge more for the poached fish?
It's not the same company breeding and poaching. They are two separate entities competing against each other, and the poachers are cheap as fuck.
The consumers of course are mostly dumb as shit and enable this business model. Dumbasses will gladly pay for a cheap wild-caught dragonet every month because they can't keep it alive rather than pay three times as much for a captive-bred one that will last years.

>>5033515
Would

>>5025220
What about the alphafish?

>>5037237
It's betta not beta it's the Malay word for persistent.
They're called that because they can breath air so they can survive in water that's depleted of oxygen. Making them very persistent fish.

>>5018032 (OP)

Tetrapods are fish

>>5018376
Pumpkinseed my beloved

i like how broad rainbow fish get

Orcas

>>5037304
Their real name is the Siamese fighting fish

>>5018376
Bluegill really are one of the world's most beautiful fish. Bot only the northern populations. The Florida ones are fucking weird colored. It's really hard to find photos that show off their rainbow colors though.

>>5018492
Good choice. Also:

>>5033150
Literally everything. Fucking hate tarpons.

>>5018032 (OP)
Thats not how you use the word aesthetic

>>5018446
I love the name Goliath Grouper for them (despite goliath being heebspeak), but I insist on calling them jewfish because it pisses off pretty much everyone I hate.

>>5025200
That's an AI video generated from a real image you're a fucking moron.
Fuck off and feed yourself to a shark.
You're the stupidest motherfucker to post this week.
Go away and never speak again Israeli fed anon.
Stop existing and get a real job.
That shit is so annoying.
And so stupid.
I thought Jew feds on 4ch were supposed to be smart?
I guess not. The fucking inbreeding is just too strong.
>>5030633
>>5030637
Ah yes, lungfish. The closest living fish relatives to humans.
The Coelacanths have microscopic brains by fish standards and the lungfish have rather large brains by fish standards.
In fact lungfish have a similar brain-to-skull ratio as salamanders.

Honorable mention to our ancestors. Most based fish if I do say so myself.

>>5018032 (OP)
For me, it's the humble mahi mahi aka dorado aka dolphinfish

>>5019681
Grok is this real?

I know these threads massively favor "rare" or "special" fish, but I find a lot of the "common" ones to be very aesthetic.
Both bass and pike can be pretty, but I think the rainbow trout is the prettiest.
It's got that classic salmonidae look, a pretty marmorization, and that kino red strip on the side.
Just generally very good looking fish.

>>5030626
It's like someone took the front part of a sturgeon combined it with the back part of a catfish and then gave the whole thing a cool paintjob. Very nice fish.
>>5027254
It's majestic in its simplicity. Good choice.

>>5042682
Rainbows are gorgeous (as expected of anything named that), but for me the prettiest trout are Westslope Cutthroat and Brook Trout (I know they are technically char, shut up).

>>5042691
>>5042692
As a euro I haven't really had those on the radar, but both of those are very pretty. I think I like rainbow a bit more than cutthroat, but brook trout might be the winners here, those are some beautiful fish.

platonically ideal fish, the American Shad

>>5041495
insane colours. looks like a living painting. beautiful fish.

>>5042691
Fun fact Cutthroat can be hard to distinguish from the Arizona native trouts and some rainbows, especially when young and all of the Pacific trout can interbreed which complicates things. Rainbows have a large variation of color, from the Kenai river rainbows and steelheads to the small Golden trout. The Pacific trout can tolerate the widest range of temperatures, from freezing to 80 degrees Fahrenheit in the Gila and Apache trout. And Char are still salmonidae and thus still related to the normal trouts/salmon.

>>5023146
I hate the white niggers in this webm

>>5042682
Based common fish enjoyer. I'm a big fan of black crappie myself.

>>5044963
Never seen one of these in person before, but that's a very nice looking fish indeed. The spots on the fins, the way the lighter green shines through under the darker back, and the general marmorization on the skin are all very nice. Good choice anon.

*invades your habitat*
*looks sexy as hell doing it*

>>5025557
Op asked for the most aesthetic fish, not the most performant. The most aesthetic shark is the lemon shark.

>>5045007
tastes great and has an unlimited, year round bag limit in FL too ;) They really are awful, so please take as many as you want.

>>5045220
How come you haven't gotten rid of it if it's free food? If it was in china they would be long extinct.

Arctic grayling

>>5018446
Honestly? Not really. It just looks like a big fish, like one a kid would draw.

fbish

>>5028136
you're a big fish

no

yes

no

>>5046085
All fish are dog-ugly. (and it's even close)

>>5046098
Fish are more beautiful than cats

>>5046029
why is he eaten?

>>5046039
for you

>>5018551
Correct answer

>>5018032 (OP)
Orcas. look at this, so elegant.
>>5038622
basado

>>5050004
fucked up my post is so inelegant

Mola Mola my beloved.

>>5027254
Based choice, the sturgeon is a very redpilled fish.

>>5027254
>stiff upper lip

>>5018080
>>5050090
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0IQCLQDfKw
>>5018049
sad
>>5018047
dumb looking
>>5018343
indeed aesthetic

>>5046029
>main engine down
>fallback to maneuver propellers
>continue it's pathetic journey

>>5018047
The look a prematurely aged meth-head prostitute gives mid blowjob as they have another mini stroke whilst hallucinating talking rats in the car because they suffer from mild undiagnosed schizophrenia and haven't slept in five days. They are emaciated and are constantly shivering all the time like a neurotic chihuahua. So psychotic that they never blink unless absolutely necessary. As if an alien is piloting their body like an organic drone.

>>5018080 TRUE.

>>5050090
looks like one of those s&m practices where they put you inside a latex bag, but it's a fish inside the skin instead

The Blue Marlin. Perfection of the marine aesthetic.

>>5018201
this

>>5041495
most people just call it dolphin, no?

>>5050629
It's the fish of many names

>>5018080
>>5050090
In English: "sunfish"
In French: "moonfish"
Who was in the wrong here?

>>5050843
the moon is female in french but male in germanic languages
the sun is male in french but female in germanic languages

>>5050843
Mola Mola!

Coelacanths are the coolest thing ever.

>>5018032 (OP)
me

>>5018032 (OP)
A bit off topic, but idk where to ask.
I just saw fairly large (maybe 40-50cm? Difficult to judge) blue fish, with bright teal side fins and bright yellow tail fin. There were 4 of them swimming swiftly, hunting a school of small fish.
It was in the northern Ionian Sea, near the Albanian coast, and maybe like 30-50 metres from the shore.
I went through some of the common fish here on the internet, but none seemed to fit what I’ve seen. Any guesses what it could have been?

>>5018032 (OP)
Why dis nigga still have a hat?

>>5050478
>blue marlin
>clearly has brown areas

>>5020203
Look man, people just want some excitement in their boring lives by getting to look at pretty colorful sea fish

>>5055972
lol this it's crazy that even freshwater and saltwater becomes some sort of console war retardation

Sea Robins are kinda cool