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11-06-2006, 02:50 PM
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#1 | | Guppy
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Gainesville, Fl
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| Fish Losing Color
My fish seem to lose their color sometimes, and then later sometimes hours, sometimes days it brightens back up. Why is this? Stress? How can I fix this, and is it healthy? Thanks.
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11-06-2006, 05:07 PM
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#2 | | Super MOD 3000 Posts
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| Hey Andy,
There are a number of reasons why a fish would lose its color...
Stress from Water Conditions, being hassled by other fish, low light will sometimes trigger it as well as high light. You need to observe what is going on in the tank prior to the loss of color and see if you learn anything.
Stress for water conditions or illness..Let's review your water parameters and any observations of odd behavior.
Let us hear from you,
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11-07-2006, 06:16 PM
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#3 | | Guppy
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Gainesville, Fl
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| My parameters are as follows:
Temp.- 80
pH- 6.8
Nitrite- 0
Nitrate- 15
Ammonia- 0
The fish do hassel each other a lot, but they all seem to chase each other equally. The only thing is the Bleeding heart is about 2 inches making him twica as big as the others, so he may be part of the problem. I see him bullying sometimes, but the little guys usually fight back.
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11-10-2006, 05:08 PM
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#4 | | Guppy
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Gainesville, Fl
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| Bump. Anyone?
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11-10-2006, 05:11 PM
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#5 | | Tetra
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Canada
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| What do you feed the fish ?
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11-10-2006, 05:44 PM
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#6 | | Guppy
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Gainesville, Fl
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| I feed them Banquet flakes by Aquatrol. I asked the guy at my lfs and he said it was the best one, so I believed him.
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11-10-2006, 06:12 PM
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#7 | | Tetra
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| there are flake foods you can buy that will enhance the natural color of the fish but it sounds like it may be stress or other conditions that is affecting the quality of color from your fish. like jay said there are many reasons why this will happen. Have the fish gained the color back but then it faded again or is it staying the same fadded color ?
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11-10-2006, 07:12 PM
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#8 | | Guppy
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Gainesville, Fl
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| It changes, sometimes they fade, then they gain it back, and so on. Sometimes the gain or lose it quickly, and somtimes it takes a while, like days.
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11-10-2006, 07:47 PM
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#9 | | Tetra
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| Here is a good trouble shooting chart for your porblem hopefully it will help you out. http://www.fishyfarmacy.com/fish_dis..._in_color.html
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