Gar washed out over the last year or so.

[conig]

I was looking at some pics last night and I did not realize how much my gar have become washed out. Parametors have not changed, and my decorations have barely changed. I changed to a hollowed trunk piece of drift wood,I beleive its ceder and added a boiled cream stout bottle I thought looked old. The gars are darker under my old T5 lights(now t8 and the same spectrum). They also do not swim as much anymore. oh last thing I started using scrubbies from freds in my filters i noticed when cleaning they got lost color. i do not use carbon.

before


after



I am getting a blackish slime algae.

 

[conig]

guess I should ask a question, does anyone have any ideas on how to get my gars back to normal?

Or see anything about the changes I should start with first?

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

Darker substrate....

 

[conig]

Substrate and background were the same before.

I'm looking for something that has changed more then something I could change. They were pretty before on the same sand, I've always had sand with them.

 

[sbuse]

you had more plants before.the pbass could be pushing them around also. my gars were always on the bottom when i had them with pbass and aros.

the darker bottom will darken them up.

 

[conig]

Thanks, the peacock bass went in last week, they have been this way for it looks like 6 months by pictures.

I removed the wood,its soft to the touch. So I am betting it is not hard wood. I'm going to leave it out awhile and do some larger then normal water changes. Maybe thats the problem.

 

[Ambervikings91]

yep, the gars end up trying to blend in kinda thing

 

[fishwhisperer]

comes with age bro, nuthing to be worried about

 

[sbuse]

it depends more on surroundings then age.