Fading or growing up?

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bixrd

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What age do lmb start to get their adult colors? He has lost a lot of color. I know he needs more food options, he's getting baby guppies and a lamp soon. He has been eating freeze dried blood worms. I know he's not too bad off, since he's insanely active and attentive, and he's been growing like a weed.

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They don't fading away and their coloration never change at all. Better test your water.
 
LM usually have the same colors during their entire life, its just hard to see when they are so small. Their moods can change their color, water temps, depth of the fish, water color, foods they eat, etc. Usually when you add a wild fish in an aquarium, they dont look as good or prominent as they did in the wild. I seen this is my 500 gallon native tank and I currently see this in my longears in the 220. Doesn't mean you should test the water either.
 
But he's just started to get the black on his tail like the local fish, and the green above the horizontal line is just recently starting to show.... I don't know if this helps but I got him when he was the size of the tip of my pinky.

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These pictures are a week and a half apart. There hasn't been any changes to his tank or his diet. He got a filter with an overflow and has had some currents, could that have altered things? That was done about the date the first picture was taken.

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These are all adults that are relatively local. Very different colors from about the same age of fish. They do change their color from fry...

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You needs more structures and he will get his coloration back. Otherwise, they do not change their coloration at all.
 
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These are all adults that are relatively local. Very different colors from about the same age of fish. They do change their color from fry...

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Yes we know which I mentioned already in my previous post. Their moods can change their color, water temps, depth of the fish, water color, foods they eat, etc.

You have a young fish that just started life not long ago, give him time and things will change, the bigger he gets the more change you will see. Other than that, that's all there is to say about this. Give it time.
 
Sorry, I really wasn't trying to be a pain, it just didn't really make sense when you guys said that they don't change color as they mature, since all the fry I've seen where just very little color aside from the dramatic black stripe down the side, and the adults just seem so radically different. But, as to fishy face, I've also had the suggestion to try varying his diet. I don't know if he was just in a bad mood or wanted something tasty, but his color is really nice again.

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