Hey everyone, new here. 
I am also on another forum, but they don't know a whole lot on the bigger fish, and I found you guys thru Google and thought I would ask you instead since you have exp with the big fish! I finally decided to stop "prowling" this site and just join lol. 
I got my BGK about 7-8 weeks ago when he was about 4 inches and is now closer to 7 inches. He is in a 75G tank with one Red Dwarf Gourami who is his new best friend (moved because he was being picked on in the other tank). When I got him he had a deformed pectoral fin, which does not hinder him one bit. He still zips around his tank like a crazy man when it's feeding time. He could just be showing off for his friend and me too lol. I feed him by hand, along with the DG and all of my bettas. He is out at all times of the day, the light doesn't bother him anymore unless it's REALLY bright. Instead of having tank lights, I just got a desk lamp with a plant light which shines on 1/4 of the tank only over the plants that have to have some sort of light, the rest get natural sunlight. He pretty much avoids that lighted area altogether, unless he smells some food over there. He has 2 tubes, a "man castle" a rock hut and plants that he has started using as his Lazy-Boy chair, I find him sleeping upside down with his head on the leaves haha, his favorite place to hang out though is the bottom of the filter intake looking for bloodworms that might be stuck on it. He gets fed frozen BW's the occasional B. Shrimp (he doesn't like them too much), freeze dried BW and brine and sometimes he eats the tropical flakes I put in for the DG. All my fish get boiled peas on Thursday afternoon. I also give them kelp flakes sometimes too.
Anyway, my question is this:
I noticed today that about halfway down his body, he is starting to look a little faded. It is not "3-D" at all, just seems like his skin is lightening up. It is uniform on both sides. I know it is not that he is losing his color because the lights are off, as they had been on for about 7 hours. The only thing that has changed is I put one plant in there from a tank I am treating for a fungus with Melafix so the plant didn't die. I rinsed the plant off in hot hot water for a minute or so before I put it in there, and also put the other plants in my betta tank. My BGK is the only one showing these signs of fading and I am HOPING that I was not an idiot and transferred the fungus to his tank too. I thought rinsing the plants in super hot water for a while would kill the fungus. As I said before, the white areas on his body are uniform on both sides and there is no fuzz or anything on them. The tank that is being treated for fungus also has 6 Kuhli Loaches in it who did not have any signs of the fungus or fading, only the Harlequin Rasbora's had the "fin rot."
If you guys and gals have ANY information that would help me, it would be MUCH appreciated! Thanks!
I am also on another forum, but they don't know a whole lot on the bigger fish, and I found you guys thru Google and thought I would ask you instead since you have exp with the big fish! I finally decided to stop "prowling" this site and just join lol. I got my BGK about 7-8 weeks ago when he was about 4 inches and is now closer to 7 inches. He is in a 75G tank with one Red Dwarf Gourami who is his new best friend (moved because he was being picked on in the other tank). When I got him he had a deformed pectoral fin, which does not hinder him one bit. He still zips around his tank like a crazy man when it's feeding time. He could just be showing off for his friend and me too lol. I feed him by hand, along with the DG and all of my bettas. He is out at all times of the day, the light doesn't bother him anymore unless it's REALLY bright. Instead of having tank lights, I just got a desk lamp with a plant light which shines on 1/4 of the tank only over the plants that have to have some sort of light, the rest get natural sunlight. He pretty much avoids that lighted area altogether, unless he smells some food over there. He has 2 tubes, a "man castle" a rock hut and plants that he has started using as his Lazy-Boy chair, I find him sleeping upside down with his head on the leaves haha, his favorite place to hang out though is the bottom of the filter intake looking for bloodworms that might be stuck on it. He gets fed frozen BW's the occasional B. Shrimp (he doesn't like them too much), freeze dried BW and brine and sometimes he eats the tropical flakes I put in for the DG. All my fish get boiled peas on Thursday afternoon. I also give them kelp flakes sometimes too.
Anyway, my question is this:
I noticed today that about halfway down his body, he is starting to look a little faded. It is not "3-D" at all, just seems like his skin is lightening up. It is uniform on both sides. I know it is not that he is losing his color because the lights are off, as they had been on for about 7 hours. The only thing that has changed is I put one plant in there from a tank I am treating for a fungus with Melafix so the plant didn't die. I rinsed the plant off in hot hot water for a minute or so before I put it in there, and also put the other plants in my betta tank. My BGK is the only one showing these signs of fading and I am HOPING that I was not an idiot and transferred the fungus to his tank too. I thought rinsing the plants in super hot water for a while would kill the fungus. As I said before, the white areas on his body are uniform on both sides and there is no fuzz or anything on them. The tank that is being treated for fungus also has 6 Kuhli Loaches in it who did not have any signs of the fungus or fading, only the Harlequin Rasbora's had the "fin rot."
If you guys and gals have ANY information that would help me, it would be MUCH appreciated! Thanks!
