Change in eye color???

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Ronniex3

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May 21, 2010
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Hey guys,

Im hoping someone can help me with this. The other day I put one of my smaller ocells from my growout tank into my main tank with my larger ocells to see if they would get along. When I finally ended up putting him into the tank he just hid, so I walked away for a little bit and came back later to see how things were going and he had been beaten up... his fins were pretty shreaded. However, he had darkened his color and his eyes were blood red like the day that I got him. When I first got all of my smaller pbass they all had red eyes and after about a week they all faded to white. I was really bummed.... So after i took him out and put him back into my growout tank his eyes once again faded to white :( Does anyone know why this is and how I can get their eyes back to red?

Thanks for the help in advance!
 
too small pb will get bullied. As for red eyes ... i have no idea i use to have kelberi .. they look reddis under certain lights osmetime.. i duno why..

shrugs. too stressed turn their eye red? XD.. maybe their just not mature enuff to be perm red yet i duno
 
I had the same thing happen to my small orinos, there body coloration turned really dark and eyes turned red. They were getting bullied by the bigger pbass. I put them back to the grow out and all there normal colors came back.
 
I got a weird mix of a tank, 4 farmed kels, 2 ocells and 2 wild caught piquitis. The piquitis are by far the worst bullies - as I also have 2 small unidentified PB's I found lost in a tank of mbuna and got really cheap, these are the ones that get the worst, but I have loads of wood in the tank and I'm counting on the little guys making it. I used to keep tropheus before, talk about looks being deceiving, they make cichlas look like pussy cats, many a time I have seen tropheus bully weaker tank members to death, one of the reasons i let them go apart from the odd beauty I keep surprisingly [considering the different dietary requirements] with some small frontosa. I find the PB red eyes come and go depending on mood, lighting etc, but red eyes or not they are all stunning in their way. The only ones that have no red at all are the piquitis,
 
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