Hello there fish keepers,
I was wondering if anyone can help me figure out if there's anything wrong with my King Kamfa flowerhorn finnage being translucent.
I purchased a king kamfa last year on May. I just have a question since I don't have a good source of info regarding flowerhorn care. My flowerhorn's fins are turning translucent along the edges. It's not white nor signs of any fungus. What do you think it is? I've attached some pictures. I appreciate the help and just want this issue or if it is even an issue be known. He's had this for awhile now and I thought maybe that's just how it is, but I'm concern about it still since I don't see this on some of the flowerhorns on youtube.
I got him on June 1st.
1st pic is August no signs of finnage translucent.
On October pic there's a clear sign of translucency.
March and April pics he's healthy but translucency is clear, but since I feed him blood parrot pellets it's reddish in color.
Today, he is kind of constipated and dark in color but you can see all his finnage edges are different in color from his body color.
I normally do 75percent water change weekly, and ph is around 7.8 to 8.0 last time I checked which was months ago and keep him in 82F. I feed him varied pellets like sumo, hikari, okiko and varied freeze dried foods like red shrimp, mealworm, crickets, blood worm, anchovies and have recently been feeding him frozen large shrimp from Costco which I defrost throughout and cut to 1/8 to 1/4 slices.
I appreciate you looking into this. Thanks and hope to hear from someone soon. I'll be doing my weekly water change today and will be adding salt to his water.
If you have any questions feel free to message me anytime. The pics are dated as their name file.
I was wondering if anyone can help me figure out if there's anything wrong with my King Kamfa flowerhorn finnage being translucent.
I purchased a king kamfa last year on May. I just have a question since I don't have a good source of info regarding flowerhorn care. My flowerhorn's fins are turning translucent along the edges. It's not white nor signs of any fungus. What do you think it is? I've attached some pictures. I appreciate the help and just want this issue or if it is even an issue be known. He's had this for awhile now and I thought maybe that's just how it is, but I'm concern about it still since I don't see this on some of the flowerhorns on youtube.
I got him on June 1st.
1st pic is August no signs of finnage translucent.
On October pic there's a clear sign of translucency.
March and April pics he's healthy but translucency is clear, but since I feed him blood parrot pellets it's reddish in color.
Today, he is kind of constipated and dark in color but you can see all his finnage edges are different in color from his body color.
I normally do 75percent water change weekly, and ph is around 7.8 to 8.0 last time I checked which was months ago and keep him in 82F. I feed him varied pellets like sumo, hikari, okiko and varied freeze dried foods like red shrimp, mealworm, crickets, blood worm, anchovies and have recently been feeding him frozen large shrimp from Costco which I defrost throughout and cut to 1/8 to 1/4 slices.
I appreciate you looking into this. Thanks and hope to hear from someone soon. I'll be doing my weekly water change today and will be adding salt to his water.
If you have any questions feel free to message me anytime. The pics are dated as their name file.