What are the options for best colorful community fishes? i dont want schooling of fish but just one or two of each kind.

What size tank do you have?

one 14 gallon and another 1o gallon. want to keep fish size max upto 4 in.

is there any semi agressive cichlid i can keep with community fishes?

For those size tanks, I would look at smaller fish. Those size tanks won't make for a very large community tank. By the time you make a small community you won't have room for a four inch fish. But that's my opinion. I hope someone else can help. I don't know much about cichlids other than angels.

The smaller species of dwarf cichlids of the genera Apistogramma, Crenicara, Nannacara and Taeniacara could work if you didn't mind a single specimen. Same with some of the smaller Nanochromis species from Africa. A breeding pair of any of these can be brutal on common community fish, though, and IME they tend to be brutal on each other when kept in small aquariums unless they are a breeding pair.

For the 14 you could go with a single kribensis (females are more colorful and smaller) or maybe a keyhole cichlid with other fish, but beyond that your pretty limited on cichlids.

Remember, that when a fish doubles in length, it does not merely double the load on the biological filter. It's mass increases by greater than twice because the fish also grows deeper and wider. The load a 4" fish puts on the filtration will be roughly as much as six to eight 2" fish. That really decreases the number of fish you can keep in a small tank, so discipline against acquiring new fish will hafta be absolute. A single 4" fish as a centerpiece with a half dozen 2" schooling fish is doable in your tanks as long as the 4" fish isn't too active and heavy filtration is maintained, but personally I wouldn't advise it. A school of 4" fish just isn't fair to the fish.

WYite

Well I was going to chime in but I was pretty much going to say what wyomingite has already covered! Another idea for the 10 gallon would be 2-3 female bettas, maybe 2-4 panda corys, and maybe some live plants.

I'm partial to gouramis in small tanks as the show fish.

We had a bunch of good ideas here too for that matter:
http://www.freshwatermadness.com/t2322-10g-stocking-ideas

have currently got in 14 gallon since one year
1 leapoard danio
2 mollies
2 cherry barbs
4 guppy
2 platies
1 albino cory
1 red n blue dwarf gourami

in another 10 i have got:
4 platies
2 guppies
2 cheery barbs
1 albino cory

Hello fisholi.

That's actually a nice stocking level you have there. Cherry barbs and danios are schooling fish. I'd put all the cherry barbs in one tank (probably the 14) and get a couple of more zebra or leopard danios and put them and the leopard danio you have in the other (probably the 10). Then, seriously, I wouldn't add any more fish.

WYite

adding my fish tank pic

@ Wyomingite

i dont think it makes any problem not putting the cherry barbs together as tey arent schooling as they tend to move about their own accord and not together.

as for danio i had bought a pair and one of them died so he/she is a loner and hes been there since a year and is more active than anyone...chasing everyone around playfully

Nice looking tank...although it looks like you have a comet in there. It will eventually grow up and eat the other fish in your tank...if it hasn't started already.

yea trying to find a new home for it(comet). it hasn't started eating yet. i just pray it doesn't. i didn't know it would grow this big. its finding the space small to swim in

It will get much bigger.

You can get several different kind of shell dwellers from Lake Tanganyika for the 14 gallon!