Green terror tail color question.

[philipraposo1982]

I got a group of young terrors. At first the slight visible band on the tail was almost clear and very faint.

The males not have thicker bands and color is showing up.

My question is the color that is showing up is yellow, will this eventually turn the bright orange/red I see in pictures of adults on goggle? Or will they just remain yellow?

Thanks.

 

[Aquanero]

The tail will darken with age. Color intensity varies with genetics, diet, water quality and lighting but all things being equal the tail color will intensify.

 

[Frank Castle]

I got a group of young terrors. At first the slight visible band on the tail was almost clear and very faint.

The males not have thicker bands and color is showing up.

My question is the color that is showing up is yellow, will this eventually turn the bright orange/red I see in pictures of adults on goggle? Or will they just remain yellow?

Thanks.

How big are they? Can u post pics?

The tail will darken with age. Color intensity varies with genetics, diet, water quality and lighting but all things being equal the tail color will intensify.

Hi Tom!!! Long time no see

 

[Aquanero]

I'm still around. Working a lot right now.

 

[Frank Castle]

I'm still around. Working a lot right now.

Did you get my alert...I had a thread I felt you could give some great input on......it escapes me atm, but you were one of the 1st people I thought of, mighta been the dorsal spines thing...

 

[Buphy]

You'll see more as they grow hopefully but nice lights will really do the trick. LED where you can adjust the colors can make some truely pop. Love moving my nice light to my 75 with my 9" green terror, Bruce.

 

[aztsm]

The tail will darken with age. Color intensity varies with genetics, diet, water quality and lighting but all things being equal the tail color will intensify.

This.

It is unfortunate imo that GT don't keep their yellow tint. It's pretty rare from what I've seen to have a mature GT with yellow tail/dorsal.

 

[Williet09]

Why does it become dark shades at night?

 

[duanes]

Most cichlids have a chameleon-like ability to darken or lighten their coloration, depending on mood, stress level, to match the color of their surroundings (light substrate, dark, the availability of or lack of plant color) day/night, spawning status, sometimes even as simple as if feeding or not.
Here is an example of spawning color difference.
Below a normal color Australoheros red ceibal.

But when spawning or raising fry, dramatic difference below


Above an example of a species closer to your fish, above are Andinoacara coerleopunctatus, close cousin to your GT, in a feeding frenzy.
But below, normal just hanging out on the corner coloration.

 

[duanes]

Dark light camouflage protects cichlids from being seen by some of their most common predators, fish eating birds
Here is another example of how using dark light, and certain color camouflage protets as seen from above.
1st Herichthys carpintus from above.

There are at least 3 carpintus in the shot above.
But when raising fry, fry need to be able to discern their parent from others in an instant.
Although almost invisible from above, from the side, parental care giving carpintus are quite obvious.