My dat has no color!

[Adrius]

One of my 3 baby dats is almost totally white...Its weird beacuse he is the one who most eats, most swims and most looks happy...he chases the other 2 every now and then. Whats going on with my favorite dat? will post pic

 

[BIGgourami]

wide bar?

aren't some of them albino?
if so that's realy rare

 

[T1KARMANN]

if its a thin bar its normal they are hard to get colored up and the stripes look washed out

i have given up with thin bars

 

[sQwiReL]

baby dats are easily stressed and lose color. give them some time

 

[BIGGIE525]

yeah give them some time.. patiences buddy...

 

[AquataHolic420]

I bet they are Indo Dats, and since they are babies they arent brave enough yet to be stable a lot yet... Give it time and you will get some Great looking fish.

And i dont think an albino Widebar has ever been seen/recorded...

 

[Adrius]

here´s the pic of my baby colorless dat!

 

[Jesse]

It's an Indo dat, Datnioides microlepis. That's within the normal variation for the species.

 

[KenyanSandBoa]

Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it too much. My little guys change to that color too. Usually when I turn the light on in the morning they lose their stability and once they get used to it the color stabilizes.

 

[Nic]

my larger thin bars looses color off and on its normal with indos and ntts seen my pulchers fade on occaision