cichlaguapote;2595957; said:
right, so it starts one colour and gradually changes rather than always being the same? sorry, i'm having trouble understanding!
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right, so it starts one colour and gradually changes rather than always being the same? sorry, i'm having trouble understanding!
PufferXtreme;2595973; said:right, so it starts one colour and gradually changes rather than always being the same? sorry, i'm having trouble understanding!
Right simplest put a FH that normally starts as brown/grey/barred and will fade into completely red/orange/yellow or a mix of all three. As the fader of Druu's above they can even be really light or white sometimes. Very similar to the way midas cichlid may molt/fade from having dark grey colors to bright orange.
My fh is getting huge!But......I f'd up and he lost tons of color.When I 1st bought him he was out of this world with colors up the wazooo and now hes just blue/black mostly.Then his other tank mates beat the crap out of him.He was the ruler of the tank and usually ate most of the food at feeding time-then one day all the others just decided that he wasn't gonna get to eat all the food anymore and they ALL jumped him.They would wait until he was all full and fat with food and lazy-then attack him.So I broke the no tank mates rule.Also have black gravel and dark blue background-broke those rules as well i guess.In any case,hes now in a tank by himself with white gravel and no background.Any suggestions on how to get his colors back?I added some blue marbles to the white gravel and another member on here advised me to put more color in the tank.Which I will-so I was thinking a green or red background would go well also.yes or no?I seen a few of you guys with red backgrounds so i may copy that.Can I leave the white gravel or just add other crazy colors to it?thanks for any input
itsbadlands;2648897; said:
As far as background colors go, you can choose any color you want, but I'd prefer plant or blue background. I'd say green over red since red will look make the red colors of your FH look a little less intense. You can leave the white gravel, but I'd actually switch out or mix a little of other colors so the FH won't look too washed out(if used with bright colored background).
Now that he's alone and without the black/black set up, he should color up in no time!
JP
thankyou JP for the reply.Ill try the plant background then.I can always steal some of the flourescent gravel from my daughters tank for more color as well.Thank you cichlaguapote also for letting me know to check back in this thread.I forgot about it
itsbadlands;2649976; said:
Np bro
,You don't have to go overboard on the gravel color, in fact plain old "natural" gravel is just fine. That's what I use along with maybe 1/10 ratio of white gravel in with them (1 being white gravel, 10 being the natural gravel).
JP
