My wild Os have always been black/olive marbeled very deeply colored fish, up until a week ago. Now 2 of them are a darker olive/olive marbled and their fins are more of a light color as well. While the 3rd oscar is still black/olive. Despite coloration the faded oscars act normally, they swim around and eat like cows. I have noticed the 2 faded ones are hanging out more together while the dark one is more by itself...aggression is very minimal, if non existant for the most part. I have seen the faded ones run at the darker one once or twice but its nothing really. This has been going on for some several days...I think it began when my Pacu took a leap from the tank and died, I was really busy last week so I cant put an exact date on the fading. But that was somewhere around a week ago. The water parms are as usual 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and nitrates less than 10ppm. I did a waterchange today of about 30% and the smaller of them has gained a little bit more color...but still nowhere near that of being as it was before. Any ideas what could be up or how to make them re-gain their coloring?
I would gladly offer pictures but I still havent managed to get my new camera USB cord in, if it still persists I may suck it up and get that picture disk made from my memory card.
I would gladly offer pictures but I still havent managed to get my new camera USB cord in, if it still persists I may suck it up and get that picture disk made from my memory card.
Since the 2 lighter fish hang together and the other is kind of solo, I am assuming that maybe they have paired. They have the same body types as my previous mated pair of oscars. The female being shorter bodied and more round in appearance and the male having a longer appearance. I guess time will tell tho. Ive done nothing to the tank its been the same for the last few months.