Bichir info needed

Possibly stress from the move. Substrate color also can change it's color as well.

Substrate can cause drastic changes in colors for bichirs that would be a guess of to what has happened.

If it's acting normal and, eating as it should then it's probably fine. Still could be also stressed when did you move it into the tank?

Should be fine and if he is still stressed it shouldn't be too long before he settles in. Like others have said substrate can and most likely in your case has affected the intensity of the ornate's black. I have first hand seen it in almost all bichirs. From white, to black, to garnet. Substrate seems like just something you put in to make the tank look pretty, but for bichirs is a factor of how you want them to look. That's what I like because they are one of the few fish you have a say in what they look like

Of all the bichirs I've owned and or seen the ornate deffinatly losses the most color with stress or a bright substrate in my opinion but as long as he is eating he will regain his color in time

I've had something like this happen with my del and it was the substrate. When I went from bare to black he got darker again.


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