Frontosa help

[The Grant]

My Frontosa is about a year old and 6 inches long. It is in a good tank set up and get enouf food and stuff. The problem it has almost or no blue color what so ever so i was wondering if it gets more blue with age or something.


Btw I tryed those african cichlid attack pellets it wont eat them.

 

[tunerX]

It could be a Burundi, kigoma, karilani or one of the others which has a little to almost no blue color.

 

[The Grant]

Well the fishstore i bought it from had others that were bigger than it but same kind that had color.I just bought that last baby one they had and this was over a year ago

 

[tunerX]

post a picture of it.

 

[cichlaguapote]

check your ph.. if you're ph isn't where it should be then it could display less color than it would at a high ph.

 

[The Grant]

Can post a pic no camera and I'll check pH


pH thing said 4.5

 

[ziggy2]

4.5 are you sure? I'm surprised your tank hasn't crashed if that is right. Check it again.

 

[tunerX]

PH is a little low for a Fronts normal range. If the fish has been living in the water for over a year and it is stable then I wouldn't worry too much. I don't know what kind of blue you are expecting but if it is a variant that isn't zaire then you could just get black and silver with a bluish tint when it is aggressive.

 

[The Grant]

I was looking for just a little blue on fins and i checked again and it read 6 is that normal?

 

[tunerX]

Fronts should have 7.6 to 8.9 and it should be stable.