He colored up, I was wrong

[Angler]

I recently got two fish that I thought were Silversaums. Their tail and dorsal fins looked silverish, not gold. Unfortunately, I lost the female to a very aggressive male. Now, the male's fins have slowely turned from the very light color to more and more gold. I posted pictures of these fish in another thread. Another member said that Silversaums are pretty rare, but I insisted they were Silversaums. Now that the fin coloration has taken a drastic change, I know I have a Goldsaum.

Is it normal for younger Goldsaums to have really light coloring resembling silver on their fins, or were my fish just really faded when I bought them?

I am not dissapointed that he is a Goldsaum because I like them better. I just purchased what I thought were Silversaums because I had never seen them at an LFS before.

 

[cichniss]

Around here the goldsaums at petco have what seems to be white edged fins like silversaums but if you look carefully you can tell they are just washed out. I belive this is due to stress. Many people i know have had the same thing happen to them.

 

[jmac510]

mine was like like that too i was disapointed cuz i wanted goldsuam but couple days later it tunred gold

 

[Ruck Fules]

Was bought as a white/silver saum and it turned out to be gold.

At 4"

 

[ewok]

nice kok on the fish, ruck

slowly edging towards the FH realm, eh? haha

 

[robmcd]

nice kok on the fish, ruck

slowly edging towards the FH realm, eh? haha

Thats not even funny T.....jk

 

[Headrush]

Feeding Krill will help your GT show more red/orange.

Worked for my FM and my old GT.

Got any pics?

 

[Angler]

Feeding Krill will help your GT show more red/orange.

Worked for my FM and my old GT.

Got any pics?

Not the greatest pics. His fins are a little beat up in these too:

Thanks for the tip. I will get some Krill. Right now I feed him NLS, frozen bloodworms, and frozen brine shrimp.