First off, an important issue is focus. When possible, it is important that the camera is placed perpendicular to the glass and the subject. If the camera is placed at an angle to the glass, the glass will distort the light making it difficult to get a clean focus. In addition to the distortion from the glass itself, automatic focusing often failed to properly focus when taking pictures at an angle to the glass. If it is difficult to find a perfect focus, try zooming in to the subject, then slowly walking back and forth until the focus is achieved. Another option is Manual Focus (or auto focus and focus lock) on an area and wait for the fish to swim into it.
A clearly focused close-up picture is a wonderful thing to see. So, keeping the camera at macro setting will be useful to automatically adjust the settings to properly take close-up shots. It can be good to shoot at Aperture Priority Mode as well to set a wide aperture.
For most aquarium photos, it is desirable to turn the flash off when taking pictures. By using the light of the aquarium, better color rendition could be achieved. Camera flash can cause reflections and can hurt the clarity of the image. When taking fish pictures with flash, one of the problems you will encounter is flash bounce or glare. Try to photograph the fish behaving naturally and don't always take photos of a single fish. Many pics work out better if you have a few fishes swimming around together.
Arguably the most important part of aquarium photography is the White Balance setting. The camera should be able to automatically judge what White Balance settings to use but it can also make the wrong decision. If you are finding that your colours are not perfect, simply adjust your WB settings and re-shoot.
Beautiful fish.
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